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, [...]