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 [...]

Irish Film Awards 2005

2005 Irish Film Awards
2005 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards winners: November 5, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Perry Ogden’s Pavee Lackeen takes a look at poverty in modern Ireland as seen through the eyes of a young girl and her family
 

FILM AWARDS

Best Film
Mickybo & Me
The Mighty Celt
* Pavee Lackeen
Tara Road
Trouble with Sex
Best Director
Anthony Byrne — Short Order
Fintan Connolly — Trouble with Sex
* Terry George — Hotel Rwanda
Perry Ogden — Pavee Lackeen
Best Actor
Gabriel Byrne – Wah-Wah
Cillian Murphy – Red Eye
* Liam Neeson – Kinsey
Aidan Quinn – Convicted
Best Actress
Andrea Corr – The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Jillian Bradbury – Winter’s End
Winnie Maughan – Pavee Lackeen
* [...]