National Society of Film Critics Awards 2005
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The 40th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics on 7 January 2006, honored the best in film for 2005.
[edit] Full list of winners
Winners in Bold followed by runners-up.
BEST PICTURE
1. Capote (Bennett Miller)
2. A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
3. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
BEST NONFICTION PICTURE
1. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog)
2. Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper)
3. Ballets Russes (Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine)
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE PICTURE
1. Head-On (Fatih Akın)
2. 2046 (Wong Kar-wai)
3. Caché (Michael Haneke)
BEST DIRECTOR
1. David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)
2. Wong Kar-wai (2046)
3. Bennett Miller (Capote)
BEST SCREENPLAY
1. The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
2. Capote (Dan Futterman)
3. Munich (Tony Kushner and Eric Roth)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. 2046 (Christopher Doyle, Kwan Pun-leung, Lai Yiu-fai)
2. Good Night, and Good Luck (Robert Elswit)
3. The New World (Emmanuel Lubezki)
BEST ACTOR
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
2. Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale)
3. Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Ed Harris (A History of Violence)
2. Frank Langella (Good Night, and Good Luck)
2. Matthieu Amalric (Munich)
BEST ACTRESS
1. Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
2. Keira Knightley (Pride and Prejudice)
3. Vera Farmiga (Down to the Bone)
3. Kate Dollenmayer (Funny Ha Ha)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Amy Adams (Junebug)
2. Ziyi Zhang (2046)
3. Catherine Keener (Capote, The Interpreter, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
EXPERIMENTAL AWARDS
1. "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One" (1968) and "Take Two" (2005), William Greaves' remarkable investigation into the nature of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set.
2. "13 Lakes," "Ten Skies", and "27 Years Later," the three 2005 productions of James Benning. Few have done more over the last thirty years to expand the sensory and temporal boundaries of moving pictures.
FILM HERITAGE AWARD
"Unseen Cinema", the 7-disc DVD box set collection of pre-1942 American avant-garde cinema assembled by Anthology Film Archives and Bruce Posner -- a massive and unprecedented undertaking made in concert with 60 other film archives and preservation organizations across the globe."
SPECIAL CITATION
The NSFC commends and congratulates our colleagues Kevin Thomas for his 44-year tenure as a movie critic at the Los Angeles Times, for his tireless championing in the heart of the world's movie capital of the power and beauty of independent, experimental and foreign film, for his long and important service to moviegoers around the industry, the country and the world.
[edit] External links
- IndieWIRE's article on the NSFC Awards
- Lost Angeles Times article on NSFC Awards
- A complete break down of the votes on the ballot
- Yahoo News on the NSFC Awards (Link dead as of 00:37, 15 January 2007 (UTC))
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