SIGHT & SOUND’s Top Ten Films of 2005

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (middle); Tony Leung, Gong Li, Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (bottom)

Sight & Sound’s Top-Ten (actually top-fourteen) Films

1 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
2 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) and La Niña santa / The Holy Girl (Lucretia Martel)

4 2046 (Wong Kar Wai) and Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
6 Le Conseguenze dell’amore / The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino) and The Descent (Neil Marshall)
8 Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
9 Sud pralad / Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
10 De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard), Gegen die Wand / Head-On (Fatih Akin), Hauru no ugoku [...]

New York Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 12, 2005
 

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Best Foreign-Language Film: 2046 directed by Wong Kar Wai
Best Non-Fiction Film: Grizzly Man and The White Diamond directed by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Film: Hauru no ugoku shiro / Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: William Hurt, A History of Violence
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Best Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
Best Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, and Kwan Pun Leung, 2046
Best First Film: Bennett Miller, [...]

Hong Kong Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
2005 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award winners: January 16, 2005.
 

In Toe Yuen’s McDull, prince de la bun — a follow-up to his 2001 cult hit My Life as McDull — Mrs. Mc tells her son, the pig-faced McDull, the stories she’s written about his father, McBing, Prince de la Bun.
 

Best Film: McDull, prince de la bun / McDull, the Pineapple Bun Prince
Best Director: Derek Yee, One Nite in Mongkok
Best Actor: Tony Leung, 2046
Best Actress: Ziyi Zhang, 2046
Best Screenwriter: Gordon Chan and Chung Kai-Cheung, A-1 Headline
Films of Merit: 2046, A-1 Headline, Love Battlefield, Breaking News, Kung Fu Hustle, Three. . . Extremes (for the segment "Dumplings"), Color Blossoms, One Nite in Mongkok, [...]

European Film Awards 2004

2004 European Film Awards
2004 European Film Awards Winners: Forum Convention Center in Barcelona on Dec. 11, 2004
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: Alberto Estevez / EFE
Click on the photos to enlarge them.
 

EUROPEAN FILM
ETT HÅL I MITT HJÄRTA (A Hole In My Heart), Sweden / Denmark
directed by Lukas Moodysson
produced by Memfis Film, Zentropa, Film I Väst, SVT, Nordic Film- & TV Fund
* GEGEN DIE WAND (Head-On), Germany
directed by Fatih Akin
produced by Wüste Filmproduktion / Corazon International / NDR / ARTE
La Mala educación / Bad Education, Spain
directed by Pedro Almodóvar
produced by El Deseo D.A., S.L.U.
Les Choristes / The Chorus, France / Switzerland
directed by Christophe Barratier
produced by Galatée Films / Pathé Renn Production / France 2 Cinéma / Novo Arturo [...]