National Board of Review Awards 2005

 

National Board of Review Awards - 2005

The 2005 National Board of Review Award winners were announced on Dec. 12, 2005.

National Board of Review Awards 2005 Winners - Article

 

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, Der Untergang / Downfall, Walk on Water, Xiao cai feng / 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 Voces inocentes / 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 2005 Winners - Article

National Board of Review Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

 

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Awards

Iowa Film Critics Awards

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Mar del Plata Film Festival Awards

National Society of Film Critics Awards

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

New York Film Critics Online Awards

San Diego Film Critics Society Awards

San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards

 

 

 

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