National Board of Review Awards 2005

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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.
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 Site

National Board of Review Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

 


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