Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2006 Vancouver Film Critics winners: Main Street’s Heritage Hall on February 7, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

Best Film:
* Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Good Night and Good Luck.
Best Canadian Film:
* C.R.A.Z.Y.
It’s All Gone Pete Tong
Water
Best Foreign-Language Film:
Kung Fu Hustle
* Paradise Now
Downfall
Best British Columbian Film:
Eve and the Fire Horse
* It’s All Gone Pete Tong
A Simple Curve
Best Director:
George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck.
David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
* Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Director of a Canadian Film:
Michael Dowse, It’s All Gone, Pete Tong
* Deepa Mehta, Water
Jean-Marc Vallée, C.R.A.Z.Y.
Best Actor:
Terrence Howard, Hustle and Flow
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
* Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actor in a Canadian Film:
* Marc-André [...]

2006 SAG Award Winners

Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line (top); Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener in Capote; Sandra Bullock in Crash

Among the winners of the 2006 Actor statuettes, the Screen Actors Guild awards, were:

Best actress Reese Witherspoon for playing country singer June Carter in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line
Best actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote, for playing another real-life character, Truman Capote
Best (faux) supporting actress Rachel Weisz for her tragic human-rights fighter in The Constant Gardener (Weisz is actually a lead character in the political drama, and is being recognized as such in Britain)
Best supporting actor Paul Giamatti for the box-office disappointment Cinderella Man
The ethnically conscious melodrama Crash, for its all-star cast, including Matt [...]

SAG Awards 2006

2006 SAG Awards
2006 Screen Actors Guild of America award winners: January 29, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Thandie Newton, Matt Dillon in Crash
 

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Russell Crowe / CINDERELLA MAN – Jim Braddock (Universal Pictures)
* Philip Seymour Hoffman / CAPOTE – Truman Capote (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
Heath Ledger / BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – Ennis Del Mar (Focus Features)
Joaquin Phoenix / WALK THE LINE– John R. Cash (20th Century Fox)
David Strathairn / GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. – Edward R. Murrow (Warner Independent Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Judi Dench / MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS – Mrs. Laura Henderson (The Weinstein Company)
Felicity Huffman / TRANSAMERICA – Bree [...]

Golden Globes 2006

2006 Golden Globes
2006 Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe nominees
2006 Golden Globe winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 16, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

James Schamus, Diana Ossana, Ang Lee. © HFPA / 63rd Golden Globe Awards®

Best Motion Picture – Drama
* Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Good Night and Good Luck.
A History of Violence
Match Point
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Mrs Henderson Presents
Pride & Prejudice
The Producers
The Squid and the Whale
* Walk the Line
Best Foreign Language Film
Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas (France)
Kung fu / Kung Fu Hustle (Hong Kong)
Mo gik / The Promise (China)
* Paradise Now (Palestine)
Tsotsi (South Africa)
Best Director – Motion Picture
Woody [...]

Phoenix Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
2005 Phoenix Film Critics Society award winners: December 20, 2005
 

Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger in Cinderella Man
 

Best Film: Cinderella Man by Ron Howard
Runners-up (in alphabetical order): Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck., A History of Violence, In Her Shoes, King Kong, Sin City, Walk the Line
Best Foreign-Language Film: Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow
Best Documentary: March of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director: George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck.
Best Actor: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Michelle [...]

Southeastern Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Southeastern Film Critics Association winners: December 19, 2005
 

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Runners-up: Good Night and Good Luck., Capote, Crash, A History of Violence, The Constant Gardener, Syriana, Cinderella Man, King Kong, Walk the Line
Best Foreign-Language Film: Hidden directed by Michael Haneke
Best Documentary: March of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, [...]

Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Award winners: December 19, 2005
 

Michelle Williams, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Runners-up: Capote, Good Night and Good Luck., Crash, Cinderella Man, Syriana, Pride & Prejudice, A History of Violence, King Kong, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Best Foreign-Language Film: Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Assad
Runners-up: Kung Fu Hustle, Downfall, Nobody Knows, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Runners-up: George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck.; Bennett Miller, Capote; Peter Jackson, King Kong; Paul Haggis, Crash
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Runners-up: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain; David Strathairn, Good Night and Good Luck.; Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line; [...]

2005 National Board of Review Award Winners

The New York-based group National Board of Review has selected George Clooney’s black-and-white biopic-cum-sociopolitical drama Good Night and Good Luck. (above, with Clooney and David Strathairn) 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, who plays 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 (above, with Anne Hathaway) won as best supporting actor for his gay rodeo cowboy in Brokeback Mountain.
Perhaps the NBR decided to categorize Gyllenhaal’s Jack Twist as [...]

National Board of Review Awards 2005

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 & [...]