11th Critics' Choice Awards

2006 film awards

11th Critics' Choice Awards
Date	January 9, 2006
Official website	www.criticschoice.com
Highlights
Best Film	Brokeback Mountain
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The 11th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 9, 2006, honoring the finest achievements of 2005 filmmaking. The ceremony was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California.

Top 10 films

(in alphabetical order)

Winners and nominees

Paul Giamatti, Best Supporting Actor winner

Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain

Best Director

Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain

George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis – Crash
Ron Howard – Cinderella Man
Peter Jackson – King Kong
Steven Spielberg – Munich

Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote

Russell Crowe – Cinderella Man as James J. Braddock
Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow as DJay
Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow

Best Actress

Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line as June Carter Cash

Joan Allen – The Upside of Anger as Terry Wolfmeyer
Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents as Laura Henderson
Felicity Huffman – Transamerica as Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne
Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice as Elizabeth Bennet
Charlize Theron – North Country as Josey Aimes

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man as Joe Gould

George Clooney – Syriana as Bob Barnes
Kevin Costner – The Upside of Anger as Denny Davies
Matt Dillon – Crash as Officer John Ryan
Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist
Terrence Howard – Crash as Cameron Thayer

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – Junebug as Ashley Johnsten (TIE)
Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain as Alma Beers Del Mar (TIE)

Maria Bello – A History of Violence as Edie Stall
Catherine Keener – Capote as Nelle Harper Lee
Frances McDormand – North Country as Glory Dodge
Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener as Tessa Abbott-Quayle

Best Young Actor

Freddie Highmore – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as Charlie Bucket

Jesse Eisenberg – The Squid and the Whale as Walt Berkman
Alex Etel – Millions as Damian Cunningham
Owen Kline – The Squid and the Whale as Frank Berkman
Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Harry Potter

Best Young Actress

Dakota Fanning – War of the Worlds as Rachel Ferrier

Flora Cross – Bee Season as Eliza
Georgie Henley – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as Lucy Pevensie
Q'orianka Kilcher – The New World as Pocahontas
Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Hermione Granger

Best Acting Ensemble

Crash

Best Writer

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
The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach

Best Animated Feature

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Documentary Feature

March of the Penguins

Best Family Film

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

Best Foreign Language Film

Kung Fu Hustle • China / Hong Kong

2046 • China / France / Germany / Hong Kong
Caché • France
Oldboy • South Korea
Paradise Now • Palestine Authority

Best Composer

Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams

Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla
Elizabethtown – Nancy Wilson
The New World – James Horner

Best Song

"Hustle & Flow" – Hustle & Flow

"A Love That Will Never Grow Old" – Brokeback Mountain
"Same in Any Language" – Elizabethtown
"Seasons of Love" – Rent
"Travelin' Thru" – Transamerica

Best Comedy Movie

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Best Soundtrack

Walk the Line

Statistics

Nominations	Film
8	Brokeback Mountain
6	Crash
5	Good Night, and Good Luck
4	Capote
	Cinderella Man
	Walk the Line
3	Elizabethtown
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
	Memoirs of a Geisha
	Rent
	The Squid and the Whale
2	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
	The Constant Gardener
	Hustle & Flow
	King Kong
	Mrs Henderson Presents
	Munich
	The New World
	North Country
	The Producers
	Syriana
	Transamerica
	The Upside of Anger

Wins	Film
3	Brokeback Mountain
2	Crash
2	Walk the Line

References

"The BFCA Critics' Choice Awards :: 2005". Broadcast Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on June 29, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2015.
Hernandez, Eugene (January 10, 2006). ""Brokeback" Wins Top Critics' Choice Awards". IndieWire. Retrieved January 10, 2006.
"'Brokeback' Is Critics' Choice". CBS News. January 10, 2006. Retrieved January 10, 2006.
Ngo, Binh (December 20, 2005). "Kong to Receive Special Honor at the Critics' Choice Awards". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 20, 2005.

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Top 10 films

Winners and nominees

Freedom Award

Best Picture Made for Television

Distinguished Achievement in Performing Arts Award

Statistics

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