Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2005

31st LAFCA Awards

December, 2005

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Best Film:
Brokeback Mountain

The 31st Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honored the best in film for 2005.

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Runner-up: A History of Violence

• Best Director:
  • Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
  • Runner-up: David Cronenberg – A History of Violence

• Best Actor:
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
  • Runner-up: Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain

• Best Actress:
  • Vera Farmiga – Down to the Bone
  • Runner-up: Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents

• Best Supporting Actor:
  • William Hurt – A History of Violence
  • Runner-up: Frank Langella – Good Night, and Good Luck.

• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Catherine Keener – The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Capote, The Ballad of Jack and Rose and The Interpreter
  • Runner-up: Amy Adams – Junebug

• Best Screenplay (tie):
  • Dan Futterman – Capote
  • Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale

• Best Cinematography:
  • Robert Elswit – Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • Runner-up: Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan and Lai Yiu-fai – 2046

• Best Production Design:
  • William Chang – 2046
  • Runner-up: Jim Bissell – Good Night, and Good Luck.

• Best Music Score:
  • Joe Hisaishi and Youmi Kimura – Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)
  • Runner-up: Ryuichi Sakamoto – Tony Takitani

• Best Foreign-Language Film:
  • Caché • France/Austria/Germany/Italy
  • Runner-up: 2046 • Hong Kong

• Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
  • Grizzly Man
  • Runner-up: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

• Best Animation:
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

• The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  • Peter Watkins – La Commune (Paris, 1871)

• New Generation Award:
  • Terrence Howard

• Career Achievement Award:
  • Richard Widmark

• Special Citation:
  • Kevin Thomas for his contribution to film culture in Los Angeles.
  • David Shepard, Bruce Posner and the Anthology Film Archives to honor Unseen Cinema, an unprecedented 8-disc collection of films from 1894-1941.

External links

• 31st Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards