- Critics' Choice Award
The Critics' Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the
Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Nominees are selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period, which ended this year at midnight onDecember 9 ,2005 and were announced onDecember 11 ,2005 . The winners were revealed at the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards ceremony onJanuary 9 ,2006 at theSanta Monica Civic Auditorium , which was broadcast live on TheWB Television Network . Special awards are given out at the discretion of the BFCA Board of Directors.The Broadcast Film Critics Association prides itself on its ability to anticipate Academy Award nominations: between 1997 and 2004, the Critics’ Choice nominations predicted all but two of 35 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. By comparison, the
Golden Globe Award s were three times more likely to go different way during the same period. Though, the fact that the BFCA chooses more than the five films nominated for the Academy Awards — ten pictures were nominated for the 2005 awards — may account for some of this greater predictive power.2007 Nominees
Best Picture
*"American Gangster"
*"Atonement"
*"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
*"Into the Wild"
*"Juno"
*"The Kite Runner"
*"Michael Clayton"
*"No Country for Old Men" - Winner
*""
*"There Will Be Blood "Best Actor
*George Clooney - "Michael Clayton"
*Daniel Day-Lewis - "There Will Be Blood " - Winner
*Johnny Depp - ""
*Ryan Gosling - "Lars and the Real Girl "
*Emile Hirsch - "Into the Wild"
*Viggo Mortensen - "Eastern Promises "Best Actress
*Amy Adams - "Enchanted"
*Cate Blanchett - ""
*Julie Christie - "Away from Her " - Winner
*Marion Cotillard - "La Vie En Rose"
*Angelina Jolie - "A Mighty Heart"
*Ellen Page - "Juno"Best Supporting Actor
*Casey Affleck - "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford "
*Javier Bardem - "No Country for Old Men" - Winner
*Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Charlie Wilson's War "
*Hal Holbrook - "Into the Wild"
*Tom Wilkinson - "Michael Clayton"Best Supporting Actress
*Cate Blanchett - "I'm Not There "
*Catherine Keener - "Into the Wild"
*Vanessa Redgrave - "Atonement"
*Amy Ryan - "Gone Baby Gone " - Winner
*Tilda Swinton - "Michael Clayton"Best Acting Ensemble
*"Hairspray" - Winner
*"Juno"
*"No Country for Old Men"
*""
*"Gone Baby Gone "
*"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead "Best Director
*Tim Burton - ""
*Joel and Ethan Coen - "No Country for Old Men" - Winner
*Sidney Lumet " - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
*Sean Penn - "Into the Wild"
*Julian Schnabel - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
*Joe Wright - "Atonement"Best Writer
*Diablo Cody - "Juno" - Winner
*Joel and Ethan Coen - "No Country for Old Men"
*Tony Gilroy - "Michael Clayton"
*Nancy Oliver - "Lars and the Real Girl "
*Sean Penn - "Into the Wild"
*Aaron Sorkin - "Charlie Wilson's War "Best Animated Feature
*"Bee Movie "
*"Beowulf"
*"Persepolis"
*"Ratatouille" - Winner
*"The Simpsons Movie "Best Young Actor
*Michael Cera - "Juno"
*Michael Cera - "Superbad"
*Freddie Highmore - "August Rush "
*Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada - "The Kite Runner" - Winner
*Ed Sanders - ""Best Young Actress
*Nikki Blonsky - "Hairspray" - Winner
*Dakota Blue Richards - "The Golden Compass"
*AnnaSophia Robb - "Bridge to Terabithia"
*Saoirse Ronan - "Atonement"Best Comedy Movie
*"Dan in Real Life "
*"Hairspray"
*"Juno" - Winner
*"Knocked Up "
*"Superbad"Best Family Film
*"August Rush "
*"Enchanted" - Winner
*"The Golden Compass"
*"Hairspray"
*"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"Best Picture Made for Television
*"The Company"
*"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" - Winner
*"Tin Man"
*"The War"Best Foreign Language Film
*"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" - Winner
*"4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days "
*"La Vie En Rose"
*"Lust, Caution"
*"The Orphanage"Best Song
*"Come So Far " byQueen Latifah ,Nikki Blonsky ,Zac Efron , andElijah Kelley - "Hairspray"
*Do You Feel Me byAnthony Hamilton - "American Gangster"
*Falling Slowly byGlen Hansard andMarketa Irglova - "Once" - Winner
*Guaranteed byEddie Vedder - "Into the Wild"
*That's How You Know byAmy Adams - "Enchanted"Best Composer
*Marco Beltrami - ""
*Alexandre Desplat - "Lust, Caution"
*Clint Eastwood - "Grace Is Gone"
*Jonny Greenwood - "There Will Be Blood " - Winner
*Dario Marianelli - "Atonement"
*Alan Menken - "Enchanted"Best Documentary
*"Darfur Now "
*"In the Shadow of the Moon "
*""
*"No End in Sight "
*"Sharkwater "
*"Sicko " - Winner2005 Nominees
Best Picture
*"Brokeback Mountain " - Winner
*"Capote"
*"Cinderella Man "
*"The Constant Gardener"
*"Crash"
*"Good Night, and Good Luck. "
*"King Kong"
*"Memoirs of a Geisha"
*"Munich"
*"Walk the Line "Best Actor
*Russell Crowe - "Cinderella Man"
*Philip Seymour Hoffman - "Capote" - Winner
*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 "
*Judi Dench - "Mrs. Henderson Presents "
*Felicity Huffman - "Transamerica"
*Keira Knightley - "Pride and Prejudice"
*Charlize Theron - "North Country"
*Reese Witherspoon - "Walk the Line" - WinnerBest Supporting Actor
*George Clooney - "Syriana "
*Kevin Costner - "The Upside of Anger"
*Matt Dillon - "Crash"
*Paul Giamatti - "Cinderella Man"
*Jake Gyllenhaal - "Brokeback Mountain"
*Terrence Howard - "Crash"Best Supporting Actress
*Amy Adams - "Junebug"
*Maria Bello - "A History of Violence"
*Catherine Keener - "Capote"
*Frances McDormand - "North Country"
*Rachel Weisz - "The Constant Gardener"
*Michelle Williams - "Brokeback Mountain"Best Acting Ensemble
*"Crash"
*"Good Night, And Good Luck."
*"Rent"
*"Sin City"
*"Syriana"Best Director
*George Clooney - "Good Night, and Good Luck."
*Paul Haggis - "Crash"
*Ron Howard - "Cinderella Man"
*Peter Jackson - "King Kong"
*Ang Lee - "Brokeback Mountain" - Winner
*Steven Spielberg - "Munich"Best Writer
*Noah Baumbach - "The Squid and the Whale "
*George Clooney ,Grant Heslov - "Good Night, and Good Luck"
*Dan Futterman - "Capote"
*Paul Haggis ,Bobby Moresco - "Crash"
*Larry McMurtry ,Diana Ossana - "Brokeback Mountain"Best Animated Feature
*"Chicken Little"
*"Corpse Bride "
*"Howl's Moving Castle "
*"Madagascar"
*""Best Young Actor
*Jesse Eisenberg - "The Squid and the Whale"
*Axel Etel - "Millions "
*Freddie Highmore - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
*Owen Kline - "The Squid and the Whale"
*Daniel Radcliffe - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"Best Young Actress
*Flora Cross - "Bee Season "
*Dakota Fanning - "War of the Worlds"
*Georgie Henley - ""
*Q'Orianka Kilcher - "The New World "
*Emma Watson - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"Best Comedy Movie
*"The 40-Year-Old Virgin "
*"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang "
*"Mrs. Henderson Presents"
*""
*"Wedding Crashers "Best Family Film (live action)
*"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
*"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"
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*"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"Best Picture Made for Television
*"Into the West"
*"No Direction Home "
*"Rome"
*"Warm Springs"Best Documentary Feature
*""
*"Grizzly Man "
*"Mad Hot Ballroom "
*"March of the Penguins "
*"Murderball "Best Foreign Language Film
*"2046"
*"Caché"
*"Kung Fu Hustle "
*"Oldboy "
*"Paradise Now "Best Song
*"A Love That Will Never Grow Old",Emmylou Harris - "Brokeback Mountain"
*"Hustle and Flow",Terrence Howard - "Hustle and Flow"
*"Same In Any Language",I Nine - "Elizabethtown"
*"Seasons of Love",Tracie Thoms ,Jesse L. Martin and Cast - "Rent"
*"Travelin’ Thru",Dolly Parton - "Transamerica"Best Soundtrack
*"Elizabethtown"
*"Memoirs of a Geisha"
*"The Producers: The Movie Musical"
*"Rent"
*"Walk the Line"Best Composer
*James Horner - "The New World"
*Gustavo Santaolalla - "Brokeback Mountain"
*John Williams - "Memoirs of a Geisha"
*Nancy Wilson - "Elizabethtown"External links
* [http://www.BFCA.org Broadcast Film Critics Association website]
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