The Year in Film: 2005

Best Picture
#1: Brokeback Mountain (dir: Ang Lee)
#2: The New World (dir: Terrence Malick)
#3: The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (dir: Adam Curtis)
#4: Good Night, and Good Luck. (dir: George Clooney)
#5: Kings & Queen (dir: Arnaud Desplechin)
#6: Caché (dir: Michael Haneke)
#7: A History of Violence (dir: David Cronenberg)
#8: The Squid and the Whale (dir: Noah Baumbach)
#9: The Best of Youth (dir: Marco Tullio Giordana)
#10: Memories of Murder (dir: Bong Joon-ho)

Honorable Mentions: The Holy Girl (dir: Lucrecia Martel), The Century of the Self(dir: Adam Curtis), Saraband (dir: Ingmar Bergman), Oldboy (dir: Park Chan-wook), Mysterious Skin (dir: Gregg Araki), Last Days (dir: Gus Van Sant), Grizzly Man (dir: Werner Herzog), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (dir: Doug Liman), Match Point (dir: Woody Allen), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (dir: Tommy Lee Jones), Frank Miller’s Sin City (dir: Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller), Triple Agent (dir: Eric Rohmer), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (dir: Tim Burton), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (dir: Andrew Adamson), The Constant Gardener (dir: Fernando Meirellas), Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride (dir: Tim Burton), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit(dir: Nick Park), and Guns, Germs and Steel (dir: Cassian Harrison and Tim Lambert).

Best Director
#1: Terrence Malick (The New World)
#2: David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)
#3: Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
#4: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, and Quentin Tarantino (Frank Miller’s Sin City)
#5: George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck.)

Best Actor
#1: David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck.)
#2: Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
#3: Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale)
#4: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Mysterious Skin)
#5: Erland Josephson (Saraband)

Best Actress
#1: Emmanuelle Devos (Kings & Queen)
#2: Liv Ullmann (Saraband)
#3: Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
#4: Q’Orianka Kilcher (The New World)
#5: María Alche (The Holy Girl)

Best Supporting Actor
#1: Mathieu Amalric (Kings & Queen)
#2: Owen Kline (The Squid and the Whale)
#3: William Hurt (A History of Violence)
#4: Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
#5: Ed Harris (A History of Violence)

Best Supporting Actress
#1: Laura Linney (The Squid and the Whale)
#2: Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)
#3: Gong Li (2046)
#4: Maggie Cheung (2046)
#5: Catherine Keener (Capote)

Best Original Screenplay
#1: The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
#2: Kings & Queen (Roger Bahbot and Arnaud Desplechin)
#3: The Best of Youth (Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli)
#5: Good Night, and Good Luck. (George Clooney and Grant Heslov)
#4: The New World (Terrence Malick)

Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: Brokeback Mountain (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana)
#2: A History of Violence (Josh Olson)
#3: Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
#4: The Constant Gardener (Jeffrey Caine)
#5: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (John August)

Best Cinematography
#1: Robert Elswit (Good Night, and Good Luck.)
#2: Emmanuel Lubezki (The New World)
#3: Peter Suschitzky (A History of Violence)
#4: Rodrigo Prieto (Brokeback Mountain)
#5: César Charlone (The Constant Gardener)

Best Film Editing
#1: Oldboy
#2: The New World
#3: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
#4: The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
#5: A History of Violence

Best Original Score
#1: A History of Violence (Howard Shore)
#2: Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla)
#3: Oldboy (Jo Yeong-wook)
#4: The Constant Gardener (Alberto Iglesias)
#5: The New World (James Horner)

Best Original Song
#1: “Tears to Shed” (Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride)
#2: “Death to Birth” (Last Days)
#3: “Veruca Salt” (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
#4: “According to Plan” (Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride)
#5: “Fetus” (Last Days)

Best Production Design
#1: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
#2: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
#3: Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride
#4: Good Night, and Good Luck.
#5: The New World

Best Costume Design
#1: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
#2: Good Night, and Good Luck.
#3: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
#4: Downfall
#5: Brokeback Mountain

Best Makeup
#1: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
#2: Downfall
#3: Brokeback Mountain
#4: A History of Violence
#5: Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith

Best Sound
#1: The New World
#2: Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride
#3: A History of Violence
#4: Oldboy
#5: Broken Flowers

Best Visual Effects
#1: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
#2: Jarhead
#3: Mr. & Mrs. Smith
#4: Kung Fu Hustle
#5: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory