National Society of Film Critics Awards 2005
40th National Society of Film Critics Awards
Saturday, January 7, 2006
Best Picture:
Capote
The 40th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics on 7 January 2006, honored the best in film for 2005.
Contents
Winners
Best Picture
1. Capote
2. A History of Violence
3. 2046
Best Director
1. David Cronenberg – A History of Violence
2. Wong Kar-wai – 2046
3. Bennett Miller – Capote
Best Actor
1. Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
2. Jeff Daniels – The Squid and the Whale
3. Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress
1. Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
2. Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice
3. Kate Dollenmayer – Funny Ha Ha
3. Vera Farmiga – Down to the Bone
Best Supporting Actor
1. Ed Harris – A History of Violence
2. Mathieu Amalric – Munich
2. Frank Langella – Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Supporting Actress
1. Amy Adams – Junebug
2. Zhang Ziyi – 2046
3. Catherine Keener – Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ballad of Jack and Rose and The Interpreter
Best Screenplay
1. Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale
2. Dan Futterman – Capote
3. Tony Kushner and Eric Roth – Munich
Best Cinematography
1. Christopher Doyle, Kwan Pun-leung and Lai Yiu-fai – 2046
2. Robert Elswit – Good Night, and Good Luck.
3. Emmanuel Lubezki – The New World
Best Foreign Language Film
1. Head-On (Gegen die Wand)
2. 2046
3. Caché
Best Non-Fiction Film
1. Grizzly Man
2. Darwin's Nightmare
3. Ballets Russes
Experimental Awards
1. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) and Take Two (2005), William Greaves' remarkable investigation into the nature of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set.
2. 13 Lakes, Ten Skies, and 27 Years Later, the three 2005 productions of James Benning. Few have done more over the last thirty years to expand the sensory and temporal boundaries of moving pictures.
Film Heritage Award
- Unseen Cinema, the 7-disc DVD box set collection of pre-1942 American avant-garde cinema assembled by Anthology Film Archives and Bruce Posner—a massive and unprecedented undertaking made in concert with 60 other film archives and preservation organizations across the globe.
Special Citation
- The NSFC commends and congratulates our colleagues Kevin Thomas for his 44-year tenure as a movie critic at the Los Angeles Times, for his tireless championing in the heart of the world's movie capital of the power and beauty of independent, experimental and foreign film, for his long and important service to moviegoers around the industry, the country and the world.
