Best of 2005

Saturday, August 05, 2006

BEST PICTURE
  • Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features)

  • Caché (Sony Pictures Classics)

  • Downfall (Newmarket Films)

  • A History of Violence (New Line Cinema)

  • The New World (New Line Cinema)

Honourable mentions to The Squid and the Whale; Grizzly Man; Good Night, and Good Luck; 2046; Pride and Prejudice and Junebug

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Noah Baumbach for The Squid and the Whale

  • David Cronenberg for A History of Violence

  • Michael Haneke for Caché

  • Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain

and

  • Terrence Malick for The New World

Honourable mentions to George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck; Oliver Hirschbiegel for Downfall, Joe Wright for Pride and Prejudice, Wong Kar-Wai for 2046, and Vimukthi Jayasundara for The Forsaken Land

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

  • Jeff Daniels in The Squid and the Whale

  • Bruno Ganz in Downfall

  • Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence

  • Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain

and

  • David Strathairn in Good Night, and Good Luck

Honourable mentions to Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote, Terrence Howard in Hustle and Flow, Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener, Jaoquin Phoenix in Walk the Line, Colin Farrell in The New World and Steve Carrell in The 40 Year-Old Virgin

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

  • Joan Allen in The Upside of Anger

  • Laura Linney in The Squid and the Whale

  • Naomi Watts in King Kong

  • Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardener

and

  • Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line

Honourable mentions to Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice, Naomi Watts in King Kong, Toni Collette in In Her Shoes and Natalie Press in My Summer of Love

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • Börje Ahlstedt in Saraband
  • Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain
  • William Hurt in A History of Violence

  • Mickey Rourke in Sin City

and

  • Donald Sutherland in Pride and Prejudice

Honourabale Mentions to Clifton Collins, Jr. in Capote and Frank Langella in Good Night, and Good Luck


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
  • Amy Adams in Junebug

  • Maria Bello in A History of Violence

  • Maggie Gyllenhaal in Happy Endings

  • Michelle Williams in Brokeback Mountain

and

  • Ziyi Zhang in 2046

Honourabale Mentions to Catherine Keener in The 40 Year-Old Virgin and Capote, Juliane Köhler in Downfall and Shirely MacLaine in In Her Shoes

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
  • 2046 (Hong Kong) directed by Wong Kar-Wai
  • Caché (Austria/France/Germany) directed by Michael Haneke
  • Downfall (Germany) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
  • The Forsaken Land (Sri Lanka) directed by Vimukthi Jayasundara
  • Saraband (Sweden) directed by Lucrecia Martel

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

  • Howl's Moving Castle directed by Hayao Miyazaki
  • Tim Burton's Corpse Bride directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
  • Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit directed by Steve Box and Nick Park

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

  • Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog
  • March of the Penguins directed by Luc Jacquet
  • No More Tears Sister directed by Helene Klodawsky

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
  • The 40 Year-Old Virgin written by Judd Apatow and Steve Carrell
  • Caché written by Michael Haneke
  • Junebug written by Angus MacLachlan
  • Saraband written by Miranda July
  • The Squid and the Whale written by Noah Baumbach

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  • Batman Begins screenplay by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan
  • Brokeback Mountain screenplay by Larry McMutry and Diana Ossana
  • Capote screenplay by Dan Futterman
  • Downfall screenplay by Bernd Eichinger
  • A History of Violence screenplay by Josh Olsen

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

  • 2046, William Chang
  • Capote, Kasia Walicka-Maimone
  • The New World, Jacqueline West
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jacqueline Durran
  • Walk the Line, Arianne Phillips

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  • 2046, Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan and Yiu-Fai Lai

  • Brokeback Mountain, Rodrigo Prieto

  • Good Night, and Good Luck, Robert Elswit

  • Munich, Janusz Kaminski

and

  • The New World, Emmanuel Lubezki

BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

  • 2046, William Chang; Alfred Yau
  • Good Night, and Good Luck, James Bissell; Jan Pascale
  • King Kong, Grant Major; Dan Hennah
  • The New World, Jack Fisk; Jim Erickson
  • Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Alex McDowell; Colin Batty

BEST FILM EDITING

  • Brokeback Mountain, Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor
  • Caché, Michaek Hudecek and Nadine Muse
  • The Constant Gardener, Claire Simpson
  • Good Night, and Good Luck, Stephen Mirrione
  • A History of Violence, Ronald Sanders

BEST MAKEUP

  • 2046, William Chang
  • The New World, Paul Engelen and Joani Yarbrough
  • Sin City, Greg Nicotero and Ermahn Ospina

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

  • Brokeback Mountain, Gustavo Santaolalla
  • The Constant Gardener, Alberto Iglesias
  • Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mike Andrews
  • Pride and Prejudice, Dario Marianelli
  • Syriana, Alexandre Desplat

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

  • Brokeback Mountain for the song 'A Love That Will Never Grow Old'
  • The Constant Gardener for the song 'Dicholo'
  • Crash for the song 'In the Deep'
  • Hustle and Flow for the song 'It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp'
  • TransAmerica for the song 'Travelin' Thru'

BEST SOUND DESIGN

  • Brokeback Mountain, Eugene Gearty, Reilly Steele and Drew Kunin
  • King Kong, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Tom Johnson and Michael Semanick
  • Last Days, Felix Andrew and Marshall Garlington
  • Walk the Line, Paul Massey and Peter F. Kurland
  • War of the Worlds, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins

BEST SOUND EDITING

  • King Kong, Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn, Brent Burge, David Farmer and David Whitehead
  • Sin City, Eddy Joseph
  • War of the Worlds, Richard King

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

  • King Kong, Scott E. Anderson, Joe Letteri, George Murphy, Ben Snow, Marc Varisco, Shawn Dunn and Atsushi Sato
  • Sin City, Robert Rodriguez
  • War of the Worlds, Muren, Pablo Helman, Randal M. Outra and Daniel Sudick

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

  • Downfall

Christian Berkel, Justus von Dohnanyi, Heino Ferch, Bruno Ganz, Matthias Habich, Corinna Harfouch, André Hennicke, Rolf Kanies, Thomas Krestchmann, Juliane Köhler, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes, Michael Mendl, Brigit Minichmayr and Ulrich Noethen

  • Good Night, and Good Luck

Rose Abdoo, Alex Borstein, Robert John Burke, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Jeff Daniels, Reed Diamond, Tate Donovan, Robert Downey Jr., Grant Heslov, Peter Jacobson, Frank Langella, Thomas McCarthy, Dianne Reeves, Matt Ross, David Strathairn and Ray Wise

  • Junebug

Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Benjamin McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Celia Weston and Scott Wilson

  • Pride and Prejudice


Claudie Blakely, Brenda Blethyn, Judi Dench, Tom Hollander, Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Jena Malone, Sinead Matthews, Sylvester Morand, Carey Mulligan, Rosamund Pike, Talulah Riley, Kelly Reilly, Jay Simpson, Donald Sutherland, Pip Torrens, Janet Whiteside and Simon Woods

  • The Squid and the Whale

Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jessie Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley Feiffer, Anna Paquin and William Baldwin