The 11th Critics' Choice Movie Awards were given on 9 January 2006 to honor the finest achievements in 2005 filmmaking.

 

 

BEST PICTURE

Winner: Brokeback Mountain

Nominees:
• Capote
• Cinderella Man
• The Constant Gardener
• Crash
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Munich
• Walk the Line

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain

Nominees:
• George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Paul Haggis - Crash
• Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
• Peter Jackson - King Kong
• Steven Spielberg - Munich

BEST ACTOR

Winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote

Nominees:
• Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man
• Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
• Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
• Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
• David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck

BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line

Nominees:
• Joan Allen - The Upside of Anger
• Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
• Charlize Theron - North Country

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Winner: Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man

Nominees:
• George Clooney - Syriana
• Kevin Costner - The Upside of Anger
• Matt Dillon - Crash
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
• Terrence Howard - Crash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner (tie): Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain, Amy Adams - Junebug

Nominees:
• Maria Bello - A History of Violence
• Catherine Keener - Capote
• Frances McDormand - North Country
• Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Winner: Crash

Nominees:
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Rent
• Syriana
• Sin City

BEST WRITER

Winner: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco - Crash

Nominees:
• Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale
• George Clooney and Grant Heslov - Good Night, and Good Luck
• Dan Futterman - Capote
• Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Winner: Wallace & Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Nominees:
• Chicken Little
• Corpse Bride
• Howl’s Moving Castle
• Madagascar

BEST YOUNG ACTOR

Winner: Freddie Highmore - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Nominees:
• Jesse Eisenberg - The Squid and the Whale
• Alex Etel - Millions
• Owen Kline - The Squid and the Whale
• Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS

Winner: Dakota Fanning - War of the Worlds

Nominees:
• Flora Cross - Bee Season
• Georgie Henley - The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
• Q'Orianka Kilcher - The New World
• Emily Watson - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

BEST COMEDY MOVIE

Winner: The 40 Year-Old Virgin

• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
• Mrs. Henderson Presents
• The Producers
• The Wedding Crashers

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Winner: Kung Fu Hustle

Nominees:
• Cache
• Oldboy
• Paradise Now
• 2046

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Winner: Into the West

Nominees:
• No Direction Home
• Rome
• Warm Springs

BEST FAMILY FILM

Winner: The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

Nominees:
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Dreamer
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Winner: March of the Penguins

Nominees:
• Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Grizzly Man
• Mad Hot Ballroom
• Murderball

BEST SONG

Winner: “Hustle & Flow” – Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow

Nominees:
• “A Love That Will Never Grow Old” – Emmylou Harris – Brokeback Mountain
• “Same in Any Language” – I Nine – Elizabethtown
• “Seasons of Love” – Tracie Thoms, Jesse L. Martin and Cast – Rent
• “Travelin’ Thru” – Dolly Parton – Transamerica

BEST COMPOSER

Winner: John Williams – Memoirs of a Geisha

Nominees:
• James Horner - The New World
• Gustavo Santaolalla - Brokeback Mountain
• Nancy Wilson - Elizabethtown

BEST SOUNDTRACK

Winner: Walk The Line

Nominees:
• Elizabethtown
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The Producers
• Rent

FREEDOM AWARD

Winner: George Clooney - Good Night and Good Luck

DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT IN PERFORMING ARTS AWARD

Winner: King Kong - King Kong