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2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association Nominees and Winners

"Brokeback Mountain" Receives the Most Critics' Choice Awards

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Director Ang Lee and Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of "Brokeback Mountain"

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The Broadcast Film Critics Association showed their love for the romantic drama, "Brokeback Mountain," by awarding the Ang Lee film Best Picture honors. Lee also picked up the group's Best Director trophy.

BFCA WINNERS/NOMINEES FOR MOVIES RELEASED IN 2005:

Best Picture
WINNER "Brokeback Mountain"
"Capote"
"Cinderella Man"
"The Constant Gardener"
"Crash"
"Good Night, and Good Luck"
"King Kong"
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
"Munich"
"Walk the Line"

Best Actor
WINNER Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote"
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"
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"
George Clooney - "Syriana"
Kevin Costner - "The Upside of Anger"
Matt Dillon - "Crash"
Jake Gyllenhaal - "Brokeback Mountain"
Terrence Howard - "Crash"

Best Supporting Actress
WINNER - TIE Amy Adams - "Junebug"
WINNER - TIE Michelle Williams - "Brokeback Mountain"
Maria Bello - "A History of Violence"
Catherine Keener - "Capote"
Frances McDormand - "North Country"
Rachel Weisz - "The Constant Gardener"

Best Acting Ensemble
WINNER "Crash"
"Good Night, and Good Luck"
"Rent"
"Sin City"
"Syriana"

Best Director
WINNER Ang Lee - "Brokeback Mountain"
George Clooney - "Good Luck, and Good Night"
Paul Haggis - "Crash"
Ron Howard - "Cinderella Man"
Peter Jackson - "King Kong"
Steven Spielberg - "Munich"

Best Writer
WINNER Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco - "Crash"
Noah Baumbach - "The Squid and the Whale"
George Clooney, Grant Heslov - "Good Night, and Good Luck"
Dan Futterman - "Capote"
Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana - "Brokeback Mountain"

Best Animated Feature
WINNER "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"
"Chicken Little"
"Corpse Bride"
"Howl's Moving Castle"
"Madagascar"

Best Young Actor
WINNER Freddie Highmore - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Jesse Eisenberg - "The Squid and the Whale"
Axel Etel - "Millions"
Owen Kline - "The Squid and the Whale"
Daniel Radcliffe - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Best Young Actress
WINNER Dakota Fanning - "War of the Worlds"
Flora Cross - "Bee Season"
Georgie Henley - "Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe"
Q'Orianka Kilcher - "The New World"
Emma 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"
"Wedding Crashers"

Best Family Film (live action)
WINNER "Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe"
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
"Dreamer"
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Best Picture Made for Television
WINNER Into the West
No Direction Home
Rome
Warm Springs

Best Documentary Feature
WINNER "March of the Penguins"
"Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
"Grizzly Man"
"Mad Hot Ballroom"
"Murderball"

Best Foreign Language Film
WINNER "Kung Fu Hustle"
"2046"
"Cache"
"Oldboy"
"Paradise Now"

Best Soundtrack
WINNER "Walk the Line"
"Elizabethtown"
"Memoirs of a Geisha"
"The Producers"
"Rent"

Best Song
WINNER "Hustle and Flow", Terrence Howard - "Hustle and Flow"
"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"
James Horner - "The New World"
Gustavo Santaolallo - "Brokeback Mountain"
Nancy Wilson - "Elizabethtown"

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