Critic's Choice Award

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The Critics' Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Nominees are selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period, which ended this year at midnight on December 9, 2005 and were announced on December 11, 2005. The winners were revealed at the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards ceremony on January 9, 2006 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, which was broadcast live on The WB Television Network. Special awards are given out at the discretion of the BFCA Board of Directors.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association prides itself on its ability to anticipate Academy Award nominations: between 1997 and 2004, the Critics’ Choice nominations predicted all but two of 35 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. By comparison, the Golden Globe Awards were three times more likely to go different way during the same period. Though, the fact that the BFCA chooses more than the five films nominated for the Academy Awards — ten pictures were nominated for the 2005 awards — may account for some of this greater predictive power.

[edit] 2005 Nominees

Best Picture

• Brokeback Mountain - Winner
• Capote
• Cinderella Man
• The Constant Gardener
• Crash
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Munich
• Walk the Line

Best Actor

• Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote - Winner
• Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
• Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
• Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
• David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck

Best Actress

• Joan Allen - The Upside of Anger
• Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
• Charlize Theron - North Country
• Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line - Winner

Best Supporting Actor

• George Clooney - Syriana
• Kevin Costner - The Upside of Anger
• Matt Dillon - Crash
• Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
• Terrence Howard - Crash

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams - Junebug
• Maria Bello - A History of Violence
• Catherine Keener - Capote
• Frances McDormand - North Country
• Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
• Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain

Best Acting Ensemble

• Crash
• Good Night, And Good Luck
• Rent
• Sin City
• Syriana

Best Director

• George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
• Paul Haggis - Crash
• Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
• Peter Jackson - King Kong
• Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain - Winner
• Steven Spielberg - Munich

Best Writer

• Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale
• George Clooney, Grant Heslov - Good Night, and Good Luck
• Dan Futterman - Capote
• Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco - Crash
• Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain

Best Animated Feature

• Chicken Little
• Corpse Bride
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Madagascar
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Young Actor

• Jesse Eisenberg - The Squid and the Whale
• Axel Etel - Millions
• Freddie Highmore - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Owen Kline - The Squid and the Whale
• Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Best Young Actress

• Flora Cross - Bee Season
• Dakota Fanning - War of the Worlds
• Georgie Henley - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Q'Orianka Kilcher - The New World
• Emma Watson - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Best Comedy Movie

• The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
• Mrs. Henderson Presents
• The Producers: The Movie Musical
• Wedding Crashers

Best Family Film (live action)

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Best Picture Made for Television

• Into the West
• No Direction Home
• Rome
• Warm Springs

Best Documentary Feature

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Grizzly Man
• Mad Hot Ballroom
• March of the Penguins
• Murderball

Best Foreign Language Film

• 2046
• Caché
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Oldboy
• Paradise Now

Best Song

• "A Love That Will Never Grow Old", Emmylou Harris - Brokeback Mountain
• "Hustle and Flow", Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow
• "Same In Any Language", I Nine - Elizabethtown
• "Seasons of Love", Tracie Thoms, Jesse L. Martin and Cast - Rent
• "Travelin’ Thru", Dolly Parton - Transamerica

Best Soundtrack

• Elizabethtown
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The Producers: The Movie Musical
• Rent
• Walk the Line

Best Composer

• James Horner - The New World
• Gustavo Santaolalla - Brokeback Mountain
• John Williams - Memoirs of a Geisha
• Nancy Wilson - Elizabethtown

[edit] External link

• Broadcast Film Critics Association website