2005 National Board of Review Awards
2005 National Board of Review Award winners: Dec. 12, 2005
George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., David Strathairn in Good Night and Good Luck.
Best Film: Good Night and Good Luck.
Top Ten Films (in alphabetical order):
Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, A History of Violence, Match Point, Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich, Syriana, Walk the Line
Best Foreign Language Film: Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Assad
Top Foreign Films (in alphabetical order):
2046, Downfall, Walk on Water, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Acting By An Ensemble: Mrs. Henderson Presents
Breakthrough Performance Actor: Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Crash)
Breakthrough Performance Actress: Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World
Best Directorial début: Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies
Best Adapted Screenplay: Stephen Gaghan, Syriana
Best Original Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
Best Documentary: La Marche de l'empereur / March of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet
Top Five Documentaries: (in alphabetical order) Ballets Russes, Grizzly Man, Mad Hot Ballroom, Murderball
Best Animated Feature: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride by Tim Burton
Best Film or Mini-Series Made for Cable TV: Lackawanna Blues by George C. Wolfe
Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects: King Kong
Freedom of Expression: The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till and Innocent Voices
Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking: (in alphabetical order) Breakfast on Pluto, Cape of Good Hope, The Dying Gaul, Everything Is Illuminated, Hustle & Flow, Junebug, Layer Cake, Lord of War, Nine Lives, The Thing About My Folks, The Upside of Anger
Career Achievement: Jane Fonda
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: David Cronenberg
Career Achievement – Film Music Composition: Howard Shore
Producer of the Year Award: Saul Zaentz
National Board of Review Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009