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'05 BFCA Nominations
by Nathaniel R

Like all true wussy hopeful-Oscar-predictive groups they allow themselves
extra nominess so that their predictive rate is automatically stronger.
The only place they ever get brave and interesting is in categories that Oscar
doesn't have or that they can't influence. (like Ensemble or Comedy Film)

Despite them labelling themselves a "Critics" groups they routinely favor mixed-response
Oscar bait films (like Memoirs) in favor of highly lauded critics darlings like
A History of Violence or Squid and the Whale.

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Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain Capote Cinderella Man The Constant Gardener Crash Good Night, and Good Luck. King Kong Memoirs of a Geisha Munich Walk the Line What I'm betting will win: comments

Best Actor

Russell Crowe – “Cinderella Man” Philip Seymour Hoffman – “Capote” Terrence Howard – “Hustle & Flow” Heath Ledger – “Brokeback Mountain” Joaquin Phoenix – “Walk the Line” David Strathairn – “Good Night, and Good Luck.” Their nominees pictured Comments

 

Best Actress

oan Allen – “The Upside of Anger” Judi Dench - “Mrs. Henderson Presents” Felicity Huffman – “Transamerica” Keira Knightley – “Pride & Prejudice” Charlize Theron – “North Country” Reese Witherspoon – “Walk the Line” Their nominees pictured Comments

 

Best 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” Their nominees pictured Comments

 

 

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” Their nominees pictured Comments

 

 

Best Acting Ensemble

Crash Good Night, and Good Luck. Rent Syriana Sin City

 

Best Director

George Clooney – “Good Night, and Good Luck.” Paul Haggis – “Crash” Ron Howard – “Cinderella Man” Peter Jackson – “King Kong” Ang Lee – “Brokeback Mountain” Steven Spielberg – “Munich”

BEST WRITER:
Noah Baumbach – “The Squid and the Whale”
George Clooney and Grant Heslov – “Good Night, and Good Luck.”
Dan Futterman – “Capote”
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco – “Crash”
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana – “Brokeback Mountain”

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
“Chicken Little”
“Corpse Bride”
“Howl’s Moving Castle”
“Madagascar”
“Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR:
Jesse Eisenberg – “The Squid and the Whale”
Alex Etel – “Millions”
Freddie Highmore – “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”
Owen Kline – “The Squid and the Whale”
Daniel Radcliffe – “Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire”

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS:
Flora Cross – “Bee Season”
Dakota Fanning – “War of the Worlds”
Georgie Henley – “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe”
Q'Orianka Kilcher – “The New World”
Emily Watson – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

BEST COMEDY MOVIE:
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Mrs. Henderson Presents
The Producers
The Wedding Crashers

BEST FAMILY FILM (LIVE ACTION):
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dreamer
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:
Into the West
No Direction Home
Rome
Warm Springs

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Cache
Kung Fu Hustle
Oldboy
Paradise Now
2046

BEST SONG:
“Hustle & Flow” – Terrence Howard – “Hustle & 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 SOUNDTRACK:
Elizabethtown
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Producers
Rent
Walk the Line

BEST COMPOSER:
James Horner – “The New World”
Gustavo Santaolalla – “Brokeback Mountain”
John Williams – “Memoirs of a Geisha”
Nancy Wilson – “Elizabethtown”

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Enron – The Smartest Guys in the Room
Grizzly Man
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Murderball