Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2005

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• Brokeback Mountain
• Capote
• Crash
• Good Night, and Good Luck.

  Best Director

• George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Ron Howard – Cinderella Man
• Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
• Fernando Meirelles – The Constant Gardener

  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 & Prejudice
• Charlize Theron – North Country

  Best Supporting Actor

• Matt Dillon – Crash
• Terrence Howard – Crash
• Geoffrey Rush – Munich
• Peter Sarsgaard – Jarhead

  Best Supporting Actress

• Brenda Blethyn – Pride & Prejudice
• Taraji P. Henson – Hustle & Flow
• Catherine Keener – Capote
• Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain

  Best Original Screenplay

• George Clooney and Grant Heslov – Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Craig Brewer – Hustle & Flow
• Angus MacLachlan – Junebug
• Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale

  Best Adapted Screenplay

• Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana – Brokeback Mountain
• Arthur Golden, Robin Swicord, and Doug Wright – Memoirs of a Geisha
• Tony Kushner – Munich
• Deborah Moggach – Pride & Prejudice

  Best Foreign Language Film

• Innocent Voices
• Paradise Now
• Schultze Gets the Blues
• Turtles Can Fly

  Best Animated Feature

• Chicken Little
• Corpse Bride
• Madagascar
• Robots

  Best Documentary

• Grizzly Man
• Mad Hot Ballroom
• March of the Penguins
• Murderball

  Best Breakthrough Performance

• Amy Adams – Junebug
• Q'orianka Kilcher – The New World
• Taryn Manning – Hustle & Flow
• Aishwarya Rai – Bride and Prejudice

  Best Ensemble

• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Pride & Prejudice
• Rent
• Sin City

  Best Art Direction

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Memoirs of a Geisha