Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2005

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<big> 18th CFCA Awards </big><br /> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 9, 2005 </div>

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Best Film: <br /> <big> Crash </big> </div>

The 18th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on January 9, 2006, honored the best in film for 2005.

Winners and nominees

Sources:

Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote

• Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow
• Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
• Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line
• David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Actress

Joan Allen – The Upside of Anger

• Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
• Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice
• Naomi Watts – King Kong
• Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line

Best Cinematography

Brokeback Mountain – Rodrigo Prieto

• Good Night, and Good Luck. – Robert Elswit
• King Kong – Andrew Lesnie
• Munich – Janusz Kamiński
• The New World – Emmanuel Lubezki
• Pride & Prejudice – Roman Osin

Best Director

David Cronenberg – A History of Violence

• George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Peter Jackson – King Kong
• Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
• Steven Spielberg – Munich

Best Documentary Film

Grizzly Man

• '
• Mad Hot Ballroom
• March of the Penguins
• Murderball

Best Film

Crash

• Brokeback Mountain
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• A History of Violence
• King Kong

Best Foreign Language Film

Caché (Hidden), France

• 2046, Hong Kong
• Downfall (Der Untergang), Germany
• Kung Fu Hustle (Kung fu), Hong Kong
• Oldboy, South Korea

Best Original Score

' – Gustavo Santaolalla

• Batman Begins – Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Danny Elfman
• King Kong – James Newton Howard
• Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams

Best Screenplay

Crash – Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco

• Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
• Capote – Dan Futterman
• Good Night, and Good Luck. – George Clooney and Grant Heslov
• A History of Violence – Josh Olson

Best Supporting Actor

Mickey Rourke – Sin City

• Matt Dillon – Crash
• Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain
• Terrence Howard – Crash
• Donald Sutherland – Pride & Prejudice

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bello – A History of Violence

• Amy Adams – Junebug
• Scarlett Johansson – Match Point
• Catherine Keener – Capote
• Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
• Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain

Most Promising Filmmaker

Bennett Miller – Capote

• Craig Brewer – Hustle & Flow
• Miranda July – Me and You and Everyone We Know
• Phil Morrison – Junebug
• Joe Wright – Pride & Prejudice

Most Promising Performer

Miranda July – Me and You and Everyone We Know

• Chris "Ludacris" Bridges – Crash and Hustle & Flow
• Georgie Henley – '
• Q'Orianka Kilcher – The New World
• Owen Kline – The Squid and the Whale

References