2005

Best Picture

Brokeback Mountain
-A History of Violence
-Cinderella Man
-Match Point
-Good Night & Good Luck

Best Director

"Bottom line is... we're around each other an'... this thing, it grabs hold of us again... at the wrong place... at the wrong time... and we're dead."
Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
-Woody Allen for Match Point
-Steven Spielberg for Munich
-David Cronenberg for A History of Violence
-George Clooney for Good Night & Good Luck

Best Actor

"Funny thing, Freddie, every time you light a cigarette for me, I know you're lying."
David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night & Good Luck
-Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain
-Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash in Walk the Line
-Philip Seymour Hoffman as Truman Capote in Capote
-Aaron Eckhart as Nick Naylor in Thank You For Smoking

Best Actress

"All right, well, quit that clutchin' on me now and I'll sing with you, but you gotta quit clutchin' on me."
Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line
-Ziyi Zhang as Sayuri in Memoirs of a Geisha
-Joan Allen as Terry Ann Wolfmeyer in The Upside of Anger
-Laura Linney as Joan Berkman in The Squid & the Whale
-Maria Bello as Edie Stall in A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actor

"What am I gonna do? You bust up a made man's place, you killed some of his guys, you take his eye... Jesus Joey, you took his *eye.* Barbed wire, wasn't it? That's disgusting! You always were the crazy one."
William Hurt as Richie Cusack in A History of Violence
-Matt Dillon as Officer John Ryan in Crash
-Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain
-George Clooney as Fred Friendly in Good Night & Good Luck
-Mickey Rourke as Marv in Sin City

Best Supporting Actress

"I wonder what she looks like. I bet she's skinny. She probably is. She's skinnier'n me and prettier too. Now I'll hate her. Oh, I can't wait!"
Amy Adams as Ashley Johnsten in Junebug
-Michelle Williams as Alma in Brokeback Mountain
-Thandie Newton as Christine Thayer in Crash
-Scarlet Johansson as Nola Rice in Match Point
-Rachel Weisz as Tessa Quayle in The Constant Gardener

Best Screenplay

"No, bulls would gum it. They'd flash their dusty standards at the wide-eyes and probably find some yegg to pin, probably even the right one. But they'd trample the real tracks and scare the real players back into their holes, and if we're doing this I want the whole story. No cops, not for a bit."
Brick
-Match Point
-Brokeback Mountain
-Good Night & Good Luck
-The 40 Yr. Old Virgin
-Crash