Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2005

The 4th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2005, were given on 12 December 2005.

Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
• Best Actress:
  • Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Best Art Direction:
  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Best Breakthrough Performance:
  • Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
• Best Cast:
  • Crash
• Best Director:
  • Steven Spielberg - Munich
• Best Documentary Feature:
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Best Film:
  • Munich
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Kung fu (Kung Fu Hustle), China/Hong Kong
• Best Screenplay - Adapted:
  • Capote - Dan Futterman
• Best Screenplay - Original:
  • Crash - Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Amy Adams - Junebug

Nominees

• 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 and Prejudice
  • Charlize Theron - North Country
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Chicken Little
  • Corpse Bride
  • Madagascar
  • Robots
• Best Cast:
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Rent
  • Sin City
• Best Director:
  • George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
  • Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
  • Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
  • Fernando Meirelles - The Constant Gardener
• Best Documentary Feature:
  • Grizzly Man
  • Mad Hot Ballroom
  • La marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins)
  • Murderball
• Best Film:
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Capote
  • Crash
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Paradise Now, Palestine Authority
  • Lakposhtha hâm parvaz mikonand (Turtles Can Fly), Iran/France/Iraq
  • Schultze Gets the Blues, Germany
  • Voces inocentes (Innocent Voices), Mexico/USA/Puerto Rico
• Best Screenplay - Adapted:
  • Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana
  • Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden, Robin Swicord and Doug Wright
  • Munich - Tony Kushner
  • Pride and Prejudice - Deborah Moggach
• Best Screenplay - Original:
  • Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney and Grant Heslov
  • Hustle & Flow - Craig Brewer
  • Junebug - Angus MacLachlan
  • The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Matt Dillon - Crash
  • Terrence Howard - Crash
  • Geoffrey Rush - Munich
  • Peter Sarsgaard - Jarhead
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Catherine Keener - Capote
  • Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
  • Brenda Blethyn - Pride and Prejudice
  • Taraji P. Henson - Hustle & Flow

BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE:

Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow

Amy Adams - Junebug

Q'Orianka Kilcher - The New World

Taryn Manning - Hustle & Flow

Aishwarya Rai - Bride and Prejudice

BEST ART DIRECTION:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Memoirs of a Geisha

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe