2005 National Board of Review Awards

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review.

Best Picture:	Good Night, And Good Luck
Best Foreign Film:	Paradise Now (Palestine)
Best Actor:	Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress:	Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor:	Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress:	Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Ensemble:	Mrs. Henderson Presents
Breakthrough Performances:	Terrence Howard, Crash, Get Rich or Die Tryin', and Hustle & Flow; and Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World
Best Director:	Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Directorial Debut:	Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies
Screenplay of the Year:	Syriana (Best Adapted) and The Squid and the Whale (Best Original)
Best Documentary:	March of the Penguins
Best Animated Feature:	Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Best Film or Mini-Series Made for Cable TV:	Lackawanna Blues
Career Achievement Award:	Jane Fonda
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:	David Cronenberg
Career Achievement—Music Composition:	Howard Shore
Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects:	King Kong
William K. Everson Award for Film History:	George Feltenstein
Special Achievement in Producing:	Saul Zaentz
Special Recognition of Films That Reflect Freedom of Expression:	Innocent Voices and The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Special Recognition Ffor Excellence In Filmmaking:	Breakfast on Pluto, Cape of Good Hope, The Dying Gaul, Everything Is Illuminated, Hustle & Flow, Junebug, Layer Cake, Lord of War, Nine Lives, The Thing About My Folks, The Upside of Anger