National Board of Review Awards 2005
The 77th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 10 January 2006.Top 10 films
- Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Brokeback Mountain
- Capote
- Crash
- A History of Violence
- Match Point
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Munich
- Syriana
- Walk the Line
- Paradise Now
- 2046
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
- Downfall
- Walk on Water
- March of the Penguins
- Ballet Russes
- Grizzly Man
- Mad Hot Ballroom
- Murderball
Winners
- Best Film:
- *Good Night, and Good Luck.
- Best Foreign Language Film:
- *Paradise Now
- 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 - Crash, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and Hustle & Flow
- Breakthrough Performance Actress:
- *Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World
- Best Director:
- *Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
- Best Directorial Debut:
- *Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies
- Best Documentary Feature:
- *March of the Penguins
- Best Animated Feature:
- *Corpse Bride
- Best Screenplay - Adapted:
- *Syriana - Stephen Gaghan
- Best Screenplay - Original:
- *The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach
- Best Film or Mini-Series Made for Cable TV:
- *Lackawanna Blues
- Career Achievement Award:
- *Jane Fonda
- Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:
- *David Cronenberg
- Career Achievement - Music Composition:
- *Howard Shore
- Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects:
- *King Kong
- William K. Everson Award for Film History:
- *George Feltenstein
- Special Achievement in Producing:
- *Saul Zaentz
- Special Recognition of Films That Reflect Freedom of Expression:
- *Innocent Voices
- *The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
- Special Recognition For Excellence In Filmmaking:
- *Breakfast on Pluto
- *Cape of Good Hope
- *The Dying Gaul
- *Everything Is Illuminated
- *Hustle & Flow
- *Junebug
- *Layer Cake
- *Lord of War
- *Nine Lives
- *The Thing About My Folks
- *The Upside of Anger
