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The Critics' Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Nominees are selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period, which ended this year at midnight on December 9, 2005 and were announced on December 11, 2005. The winners were revealed at the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards ceremony on January 9, 2006 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, which was broadcast live on The WB Television Network. Special awards are given out at the discretion of the BFCA Board of Directors. The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) is the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada, representing 199 television, radio and online critics. ...
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Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a multipurpose convention center in Santa Monica, California. ...
The WB Television Network, casually referred to as The WB, or sometimes as The Frog (referring to the networks former mascot, the animated character Michigan J. Frog), is a television network in the United States, founded as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. ...
The Broadcast Film Critics Association prides itself on its ability to anticipate Academy Award nominations: between 1997 and 2004, the Critics’ Choice nominations predicted all but two of 35 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. By comparison, the Golden Globe Awards were three times more likely to go different way during the same period. Though, the fact that the BFCA chooses more than the five films nominated for the Academy Awards — ten pictures were nominated for the 2005 awards — may account for some of this greater predictive power. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
2005 Nominees Best Picture Best Actor This article is about the motion picture. ...
Capote is an Academy Award-winning 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal) on a writing assignment for The New Yorker. ...
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For the 2005 film of the same name, see The Constant Gardener (film). ...
Crash is an Academy Award-winning 2005 drama film directed by Paul Haggis. ...
Good Night, and Good Luck is a 2005 film by George Clooney about the conflict between journalist Edward R. Murrow and anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. ...
King Kong is a 2005 remake of the 1933 King Kong film about a fictional giant ape called Kong. ...
Memoirs of a Geisha is an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning movie adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment and directed by Rob Marshall. ...
Munich is a 2005 drama film starring Eric Bana. ...
For the song, see I Walk the Line. ...
Best Actress Russell Ira Crowe (born April 7, 1964) is a New Zealand-Australian[1] actor. ...
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ...
Hustle & Flow is an Academy Award-winning 2005 film written and directed by Craig Brewer, and produced by Stephanie Allain and John Singleton. ...
Heath Andrew Ledger (born April 4, 1979) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. ...
JoaquÃn Rafael Phoenix (pronounced IPA: ) (born October 28, 1974), formerly credited as Leaf Phoenix, is as a two-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe and Grammy Award-winning Puerto Rican film actor. ...
David Russell Strathairn (born on January 26, 1949) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor. ...
Best Supporting Actor Joan Allen in a scene from The Contender Joan Allen (b. ...
The Upside of Anger is a 2005 drama/comedy/romance written and directed by Mike Binder. ...
Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA, (born 9 December 1934), usually known as Dame Judi Dench, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, three-time BAFTA, and six-time Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress. ...
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Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. ...
Transamerica is a Golden Globe-winning and Academy Award-nominated 2005 comedy-drama produced by IFC Films and The Weinstein Company. ...
Keira Christina Knightley (pronounced ;[1] born 26 March 1985) is an English[2] film and television actress. ...
Movie Poster Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. ...
Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is a South African-American actress and former fashion model. ...
North Country is the name of an Academy Award-nominated film directed by Niki Caro and released in 2005. ...
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon[1] (born March 22, 1976) is an American film actress, who has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and an Academy Award. ...
Best Supporting Actress George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) - is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994â99), and his rise as an A-List movie star in contemporary American cinema. ...
Syriana is a 2005 Academy Award-winning geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan. ...
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor and director who often produces his own films. ...
Matthew Raymond Matt Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...
Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal[1] (born December 19, 1980) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. ...
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ...
Best Acting Ensemble Amy Lou Adams (born August 20, 1974) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress. ...
Junebug is a 2005 comedy and drama film directed by Phil Morrison. ...
Maria Elaine Bello (born April 18, 1967) is an American actress. ...
A History of Violence is 2005 film, directed by David Cronenberg. ...
Catherine Ann Keener (born March 26, 1960 in Miami, Florida) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. ...
Frances Louise McDormand[1] (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress. ...
North Country is the name of an Academy Award-nominated film directed by Niki Caro and released in 2005. ...
Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English film and television actress. ...
Michelle Williams in a publicity still from Dawsons Creek. ...
Best Director Rent is a 2005 film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name. ...
Sin City is a 2005 neo-noir anthology film written, produced and directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. ...
Best Writer George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) - is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994â99), and his rise as an A-List movie star in contemporary American cinema. ...
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953 in London, Ontario) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian screenwriter, producer, film director, and a director/producer of television programs working in Hollywood. ...
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is an American actor, and an Academy Award winning film director, and producer, known for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television. ...
For other persons named Peter Jackson, see Peter Jackson (disambiguation). ...
Ang Lee (Chinese: ; pinyin: ) (born October 23, 1954) is an Academy-Award winning film director from the Republic of China (Taiwan). ...
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ...
Best Animated Feature Noah Baumbach (born September 3, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American independent film writer and director. ...
The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 comedy-drama film written and directed by Noah Baumbach. ...
George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) - is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama ER (1994â99), and his rise as an A-List movie star in contemporary American cinema. ...
Hes friends with George Clooney and his sidekick. ...
Daniel Futterman (born June 8, 1967) is an American actor and screenwriter. ...
Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953 in London, Ontario) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian screenwriter, producer, film director, and a director/producer of television programs working in Hollywood. ...
Robert Moresco is a Hollywood screenwriter. ...
Larry McMurtry (born June 3, 1936 in Wichita Falls, Texas) is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. ...
Diana Ossana is an American Academy Award-winning writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd. ...
Best Young Actor Chicken Little (2005) is a computer-generated imagery (CGI) animated film and the forty-fifth animated feature made and produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 4, 2005. ...
Tim Burtons Corpse Bride is a 2005 Academy Award-nominated stop-motion-animation film based loosely on a 19th century Russian-Jewish folktale version of an older Jewish story and set in a fictional Victorian era England. ...
This article is about the Diana Wynne Jones book. ...
Best Young Actress Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 3, 1983 in New York City) is a Jewish-American actor. ...
Millions is a 2004 film and book written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. ...
Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket in the 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Freddie Highmore (born February 14, 1992 in London, England) is an English child actor. ...
Not to be confused with the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. ...
Owen Joseph Kline (born October 14, 1991) is an American actor. ...
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe[1] (born 23 July 1989) is an English film, television and stage actor. ...
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 fantasy adventure film and the fourth in the popular Harry Potter films series. ...
Best Comedy Movie Flora Cross (born 1993) is an American actress. ...
Bee Season is a 2000 novel (ISBN 0385498799) by Myla Goldberg. ...
Dakota Fanning (born Hannah Dakota Fanning on February 23, 1994) is an American actress. ...
War of the Worlds is a 2005 science fiction disaster film based on H. G. Wells original novel starring Tom Cruise. ...
Georgia Laura Georgie Henley (born July 9, 1995) is an English author and child actress who played Lucy Pevensie in the The Chronicles of Narnia film series, for which she won the 2005 Phoenix Film Critics Award for Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Female...
Kilcher in The New World, 2005 QOrianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (born February 11, 1990) is an American singer and actress. ...
The New World is a 2005 Academy Award-nominated drama / romance film directed by Terrence Malick. ...
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson[1] (born 15 April 1990) is an English film actress who rose to fame playing the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series. ...
Best Family Film (live action) The 40-Year-Old Virgin is a 2005 comedy film starring Steve Carell and directed by Judd Apatow. ...
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a 2005 comedy/crime film. ...
Wedding Crashers is a 2005 comedy film, directed by David Dobkin. ...
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Best Picture Made for Television Best Documentary Feature Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks which began as a six-week event on June 10, 2005 on Turner Network Television (TNT). ...
For other uses, see No direction home (disambiguation). ...
Rome is a multiple Emmy Award-winning historical drama, produced in Italy for television by the BBC (UK), HBO (USA), and RAI (Italy). ...
Warm Springs is a 2005 movie about Franklin D. Roosevelts struggle with polio, his discovery of the Warm Springs spa resort and his work to turn it into a center for the aid of polio victims, and his resumption of his political career. ...
Best Foreign Language Film Grizzly Man is a 2005 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog. ...
Mad Hot Ballroom is a documentary by director Marilyn Agrelo about a ballroom dance program for fifth graders in the New York City public school system. ...
March of the Penguins (French: La Marche de lempereur; literally The Emperors March) is an Academy Award-winning documentary film by Luc Jacquet, co-produced by Bonne Pioche and the National Geographic Society. ...
Murderball is a tag game that is commonly played on schoolgrounds. ...
Best Song 2046 is a Hong Kong movie (filmed in Shanghai) written and directed by Wong Kar-wai and released in 2004. ...
Caché (marketed as Hidden in the United Kingdom) is a 2005 French-language film, written and directed by Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke. ...
Kung Fu Hustle (Chinese: ; Pinyin: ) is a 2004 Hong Kong martial arts film co-written, co-produced and directed by Stephen Chow, who also stars in the film. ...
This article is about the Korean film. ...
Paradise Now (Arabic: ) is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. ...
Best Soundtrack Emmylou Harris (b. ...
Terrence Dashon Howard (born March 11, 1969) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ...
Tracie Thoms (born August 19, 1975) is an American television, film, and stage actress. ...
Jesse Lamont Martin (born Jesse Lamont Watkins, January 18, 1969) is an American theatre, film, and television actor, best known for his roles as Tom Collins in Rent and as Detective Ed Green in the NBC series Law & Order. ...
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is a Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated American country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress, and philanthropist. ...
Best Composer Elizabethtown is a 2005 film written and directed by Cameron Crowe. ...
Memoirs of a Geisha is an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning movie adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment and directed by Rob Marshall. ...
James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. ...
Gustavo A. Santaolalla (b. ...
For other persons named John Williams, see John Williams (disambiguation). ...
Ann (left) and Nancy Wilson, 1993 Nancy Wilson (born March 16, 1954) is an American singer and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann, became a part of the Seattle band Heart. ...
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