LAFCA goes ga-ga over Eastwood

Picture: Letters From Iwo Jima
Runner-up: The Queen

Director: Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers & Letters From Iwo Jima)

Actor(tie): Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) & Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)

Actress: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Runner-up: Penelope Cruz (Volver)

Supporting actor: Michael Sheen (The Queen)
Runner-up: Sergi Lopez (Pan's Labyrinth)

Supporting actress: Luminita Gheorghiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)

Screenplay: Peter Morgan (The Queen)
Runner-up: Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine)

Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men)
Runner-up: Tom Stern (Flags of Our Fathers & Letters From Iwo Jima)

Production design: Eugenio Caballero (Pan's Labyrinth)
Runner-up: Jim Clay & Geoffrey Kirkland (Children of Men)

Score: Alexandre Desplat (The Queen & The Painted Veil)
Runner-up: Thomas Newman (The Good German & Little Children)

Foreign Language film: The Lives of Others
Runner-up: Volver

Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
Runner-up: Darwin's Nightmare

Animation: Happy Feet
Runner-up: Cars

Douglas Edwards experimental/independent film/video award: Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt) & In Between Days (So Yong Kim)

New generation award: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors) & Michael Arndt (screenwriter) for Little Miss Sunshine