The 31st Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honored the best in film for 2005.
Winners
Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain Runner-up: A History of Violence Best Director: Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain Runner-up: David Cronenberg – A History of Violence Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote Runner-up: Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain Best Actress: Vera Farmiga – Down to the Bone Runner-up: Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents Best Supporting Actor: William Hurt – A History of Violence Runner-up: Frank Langella – Good Night, and Good Luck. Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener – The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Capote, and The Interpreter Runner-up: Amy Adams – Junebug Best Screenplay (TIE): Dan Futterman – Capote Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale Best Cinematography: Robert Elswit – Good Night, and Good Luck. Runner-up: Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan, and Lai Yiu-fai – 2046 Best Production Design: William Chang – 2046 Runner-up: James D. Bissell – Good Night, and Good Luck. Best Music Score: Joe Hisaishi and Youmi Kimura – Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro) Runner-up: Ryuichi Sakamoto – Tony Takitani Best Foreign-Language Film: Caché • France/Austria/Germany/Italy Runner-up: 2046 • Hong Kong Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: Grizzly Man Runner-up: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Best Animation: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award: Peter Watkins – La Commune (Paris, 1871) New Generation Award: Terrence Howard Career Achievement Award: Richard Widmark Special Citation: Kevin Thomas for his contribution to film culture in Los Angeles. David Shepard, Bruce Posner, and the Anthology Film Archives to honor Unseen Cinema, an unprecedented 8-disc collection of films from 1894 to 1941.