2005: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The New World (dir: Terrence Malick)

2. Nobody Knows (dir: Hirokazu Koreeda; US release date)

3. Tropical Malady (dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul; US release date)

4. A History of Violence (dir: David Cronenberg)

5. Mysterious Skin (dir: Gregg Araki; US release date)

6. Caché (dir: Michael Haneke)

7. Munich (dir: Steven Spielberg)

8. Breakfast on Pluto (dir: Neil Jordan)

9. Brokeback Mountain (dir: Ang Lee)

10. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (dir: Tommy Lee Jones)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Batman Begins (dir: Christopher Nolan), Grizzly Man (dir: Werner Herzog), Howl's Moving Castle (dir: Hayao Miyazaki), In Her Shoes (dir: Curtis Hanson), The Intruder (dir: Claire Denis), Junebug (dir: Phil Morrison), King Kong (dir: Peter Jackson), Kings & Queen (dir: Arnaud Desplechin), Match Point (dir: Woody Allen), Red Eye (dir: Wes Craven),Walk the Line (dir: James Mangold), The Squid and The Whale (dir: Noah Baumbach) and War of the Worlds (dir: Steven Spielberg)

Best Film of the Year: The New World
Director: Terrence Malick Producer: Sarah Green
US Distributor: New Line Cinema

Best Director
Terrence Malick, The New World
2. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nobody Knows
3. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tropical Malady
4. Steven Spielberg, Munich
5. David Cronenberg, A History of Violence

Best Actor
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
2. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin
3. Cillian Murphy, Breakfast on Pluto
4. Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
5. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

Best Actress:
Q’orianka Kilcher, The New World
2. Emmanuelle Devos, Kings & Queen
3. Juliette Binoche, Caché
4. Maria Bello, A History of Violence
5. Toni Collette, In Her Shoes

Best Supporting Actor:
Cillian Murphy, Red Eye
2. Barry Pepper, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
3. Gavin Friday, Breakfast on Pluto
4. William Hurt, A History of Violence
5. Donald Sutherland, Pride and Prejudice

Best Supporting Actress:
Zhang Ziyi, 2046
2. Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale
3. Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain
4. Amy Adams, Junebug
5. Michelle Monaghan, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Best Original Screenplay:
Caché — Michael Haneke
2. The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach 
3. Nobody Knows — Hirokazu Koreeda
4. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada — Guillermo Arriaga
5. Junebug – Angus MacLachlan

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Mysterious Skin – Gregg Araki
2. Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
3. Breakfast on Pluto — Neil Jordan and Patrick McCabe
4. A History of Violence – Josh Olson
5. The Intruder — Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau

Best Cinematography:
The New World  - Emmanuel Lubezki
2. 2046 — Christopher Doyle and Kwan Pun-Leung
3. Broken Flowers — Frederick Elmes
4. Munich — Janusz Kaminski
5. The Proposition — Benoît Delhomme

Best Original Score:
A History of Violence – Howard Shore
2. Broken Flowers – Mulatu Astatke
3. Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla
4. The Proposition — Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
5. Wolf Creek – Francois Tetaz

Best Film Editing:
Munich – Michael Kahn
2. The New World – Richard Chew, Hank Corwin, Saar Klein and Mark Yoshikawa
3. A History of Violence — Ronald Sanders
4. Oldboy — Kim Sang-beom
5. Match Point — Alisa Lepselter

Best Production Design:
The New World – Jack Fisk and Jim Erickson
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Alex McDowell and Peter Young
3. 2046 — William Chang Suk Ping and Alfred Yau
4. Pride & Prejudice – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer
5. Cinderella Man – Wynn Thomas and Gordon Sim

Best Costume Design:
The New World — Jacqueline West
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the With, and the Wardrobe — Isis Mussenden
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — Gabriella Pesucci
4. Walk the Line — Arianne Phillips
5. Brokeback Mountain — Marit Allen

Best Visual Effects
King Kong
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the With, and the Wardrobe
3. The War of the Worlds

Best Sound
Walk the Line
2. King Kong
3. The New World

Best Makeup
The New World
2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
3. Sin City

Best Documentary Feature:
Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man

Best Animated Feature: 
Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, The Corpse Bride

Best Limited Series:
Coky Giedroyc, Paula Milne, and Paul Rutman, The Virgin Queen

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Nobody Knows

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Hirokazu Koreeda; in alphabetical order): Hanae Kan, Hiei Kimura, Ayu Kitaura, Kazuyoshi Kushia, Yukiko Okamoto, Momoko Shimizu, Yuya Yagira and You

Best First Feature: Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

RECAP

W I N S :

The New World — 6,
2046 — 1, Brokeback Mountain — 1, Caché — 1, The Corpse Bride — 1, Grizzly Man — 1, A History of Violence — 1, King Kong — 1, Mysterious Skin — 1, Munich — 1, Nobody Knows — 1, Red Eye — 1, Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada — 1, The Virgin Queen — 1, Walk the Line

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The New World — 7,
Brokeback Mountain — 6, Breakfast on Pluto — 5, A History of Violence — 5, Caché — 4, Munich — 4, Nobody Knows — 4, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada — 4, Tropical Malady — 4, 2046 — 3, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — 3, Mysterious Skin — 3, Walk the Line — 3, Broken Flowers — 2, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe — 2, Junebug — 2, King Kong — 2, Pride and Prejudice — 2, The Proposition — 2, The Squid and the Whale — 2

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Best of the Decade:
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