National Board of Review Awards 2005 Winners
December 12th, 2005 by Andre Soares
The New York-based group National Board of Review has selected George Clooney’s black-and-white political drama Good Night, and Good Luck. as the Best Film of 2005.
Other winners include Best Director Ang Lee for critics’ fave Brokeback Mountain; another critics’ fave, Philip Seymour Hoffman, chosen as Best Actor for Capote; and Best Actress Felicity Huffman as a pre-op male-to-female transsexual in Transamerica.
The Best Foreign Film was Paradise Now, the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers directed by Hany Abu-Assad; while, inexplicably, leading man Jake Gyllenhaal won as Best Supporting Actor in Brokeback Mountain. Perhaps the NBR decided to categorize Gyllenhaal’s Jack Twist as a supporting role so as to give the young actor a little something, since Heath Ledger’s taciturn cowboy has been lassoing all the critical praise for acting in that film. (And if Gyllenhaal is also listed as a supporting actor for the Oscars that would increase both Gyllenhaal’s chances of getting a nomination and Ledger’s chances of winning a Best Actor Academy Award.)
Gong Li, one of the greatest film actresses of the last 15 years, was chosen Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a bitter geisha in Memoirs of a Geisha. Although I hated it each time she (and everybody else) had to say something in that outer-planetary English dialect they came up with for the film, Gong’s facial expressions were masterful.
According to the NBR’s press release, the main awards (Film, Foreign Film, Documentary, Animated Film, Acting, Director, Screenplay, Cable Film) are voted on by a Screening Committee comprised of 150 members, who must have seen all qualifying films before voting. The other awards are given by the Exceptional Photoplay Committee, first created in 1929, and composed of 12 members. The NBR’s membership includes film professionals, educators, students, and historians.
National Board of Review 2005 winners
New York Film Critics Online 2005 winners
Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2005 winners
Complete list of winners and nominees for the 2005 European Film Awards
Boston Society of Film Critics 2005 winners
Independent Spirit Awards 2005 Nominees
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