Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner at the Critic's Choice awards.
Martin Scorsese, winner Best Director for 'The Departed,' and Steven Spielberg.
Eddie Murphy took home the prize for supporting actor.
Alejandro González Iñárritu and Rinko Kikuchi at the Critic's Choice Awards.
Paul Dano, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Abigail Breslin won best ensemble for 'Little Miss Sunshine.'
HOLLYWOOD -- At times it seems awards season "acceptance speeches" and "dull and lengthy" are synonymous. But at Friday night's Broadcast Film Critics Assn.'s Critics' Choice Awards, the speeches proved rather insightful.
There was the precocious young actress winner
Abigail Breslin, who thanked her parents "who have supported me
forever and let me do all this stuff." The always-joking
Sacha Baron Cohen thanked, "everyone in America who has decided not to sue us" after quipping, "It is so wonderful to take off that mustache and finally see you all."
When picking up the foreign- language award for "Letters From Iwo Jima,"
Steven Spielberg paid tribute to
Clint Eastwood. "We were right in the middle of making 'Flags of Our Fathers' and Clint came over to talk to
Rob Lorenz and myself and said, 'You know between my cut and the time all the special effects have to be turned in, I think I can maybe squeeze in the story of the other side.'
"For that I feel like I'm 10 years older than that man," Spielberg said.
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