Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2005

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The 4th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2005, were given on 12 December 2005.

[edit] Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
• Best Actress:
  • Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Best Art Direction:
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Best Breakthrough Performance:
  • Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
• Best Cast:
  • Crash
• Best Director:
  • Steven Spielberg - Munich
• Best Documentary Feature:
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Best Film:
  • Munich
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Kung fu (Kung Fu Hustle), China/Hong Kong
• Best Screenplay - Adapted:
  • Capote - Dan Futterman
• Best Screenplay - Original:
  • Crash - Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Amy Adams - Junebug

[edit] Nominees

• Best Actor:
  • Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
  • Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
  • Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
  • David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Best Actress:
  • Joan Allen - The Upside of Anger
  • Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
  • Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
  • Charlize Theron - North Country
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Chicken Little
  • Corpse Bride
  • Madagascar
  • Robots
• Best Cast:
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Rent
  • Sin City
• Best Director:
  • George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
  • Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
  • Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
  • Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
• Best Documentary Feature:
  • Grizzly Man
  • Mad Hot Ballroom
  • La marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins)
  • Murderball
• Best Film:
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Capote
  • Crash
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Paradise Now, Palestine Authority
  • Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand (Turtles Can Fly), Iran/France/Iraq
  • Schultze Gets the Blues, Germany
  • Voces inocentes (Innocent Voices), Mexico/USA/Puerto Rico
• Best Screenplay - Adapted:
  • Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana
  • Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden, Robin Swicord and Doug Wright
  • Munich - Tony Kushner
  • Pride and Prejudice - Deborah Moggach
• Best Screenplay - Original:
  • Good Night, and Good Luck. - George Clooney and Grant Heslov
  • Hustle & Flow - Craig Brewer
  • Junebug - Angus MacLachlan
  • The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Matt Dillon - Crash
  • Terrence Howard - Crash
  • Geoffrey Rush - Munich
  • Peter Sarsgaard - Jarhead
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Catherine Keener - Capote
  • Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
  • Brenda Blethyn - Pride and Prejudice
  • Taraji P. Henson - Hustle & Flow

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:

Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow

Amy Adams - Junebug

Q'Orianka Kilcher - The New World

Taryn Manning - Hustle & Flow

Aishwarya Rai - Bride and Prejudice

BEST ART DIRECTION:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Memoirs of a Geisha

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

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

Preceded by WAFCA Awards 2004 (3rd)

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2005

Succeeded by WAFCA Awards 2006 (5th)