Online Film Critics Society Awards 2005



9th Online Film Critics Society Awards January 16, 2006

Best Film:  A History of Violence  The 9th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 16 January 2006.

Best Picture
A History of Violence
 * Brokeback Mountain
 * Crash
 * Good Night, and Good Luck.
 * Munich

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 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
Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
 * Joan Allen – The Upside of Anger
 * Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
 * Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice
 * Naomi Watts – King Kong

Best Supporting Actor
Mickey Rourke – Sin City
 * Matt Dillon – Crash
 * Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man
 * Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain
 * William Hurt – A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actress
Maria Bello – A History of Violence
 * Amy Adams – Junebug
 * Catherine Keener – Capote
 * Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
 * Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Screenplay
Good Night, and Good Luck. – George Clooney and Grant Heslov
 * Broken Flowers – Jim Jarmusch
 * Crash – Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
 * Match Point – Woody Allen
 * The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach

Best Adapted Screenplay
Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
 * Capote – Dan Futterman
 * The Constant Gardener – Jeffrey Caine
 * A History of Violence – Josh Olson
 * Munich – Tony Kushner and Eric Roth

Best Foreign Language Film
Downfall
 * 2046
 * Caché
 * Kung Fu Hustle
 * Oldboy

Best Documentary
Grizzly Man
 * The Aristocrats
 * Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
 * March of the Penguins
 * Murderball

Best Animated Feature
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
 * Corpse Bride
 * Howl's Moving Castle
 * Madagascar
 * Robots

Best Cinematography
Sin City – Robert Rodriguez
 * 2046 – Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan and Lai Yiu-fai
 * Brokeback Mountain – Rodrigo Prieto
 * Good Night, and Good Luck. – Robert Elswit
 * The New World – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Editing
Sin City – Robert Rodriguez
 * The Constant Gardener – Claire Simpson
 * Good Night, and Good Luck. – Stephen Mirrione
 * A History of Violence – Ronald Sanders
 * Munich – Michael Kahn

Best Score
Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla
 * Batman Begins – James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
 * King Kong – James Newton Howard
 * Munich – John Williams
 * The New World – James Horner

Breakthrough Filmmaker
Paul Haggis – Crash
 * Judd Apatow – The 40-Year-Old Virgin
 * Craig Brewer – Hustle & Flow
 * Bennett Miller – Capote
 * Joe Wright – Pride & Prejudice

Breakthrough Performer
Owen Kline – The Squid and the Whale
 * Nathan Fillion – Serenity
 * Georgie Henley – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
 * Tony Jaa – Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
 * Q'orianka Kilcher – The New World