National Board of Review, USA: 2005

NBR Award

Date:	10 January 2006 (announced: 12 December)
Host:	Paul Reiser
Location:	Tavern on the Green, New York, New York, USA

Best Film

Best Actor


Winner:
	Capote (2005) - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actor


Winner:
	Crash (2004/I) - Terrence Howard - Also for Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) and Hustle & Flow (2005).

Best Actress


Winner:
	Transamerica (2005) - Felicity Huffman

Best Breakthrough Performance by an Actress


Winner:
	New World, The (2005) - Q'orianka Kilcher

Best Supporting Actor


Winner:
	Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Jake Gyllenhaal

Best Supporting Actress

Best Director

Best Debut Director


Winner:
	Separate Lies (2005) - Julian Fellowes

Best Screenplay - Original


Winner:
	Squid and the Whale, The (2005) - Noah Baumbach

Best Screenplay - Adapted

Best Documentary

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Paradise Now (2005) - France/Germany/Netherlands/Israel.

Best Acting by an Ensemble

Best Animated Feature

Best Film or Mini-Series Made for Cable TV


Winners:
	Breakfast on Pluto (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Breakfast on Pluto (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Cape of Good Hope (2004) - For excellence in filmmaking. Cape of Good Hope (2004) - For excellence in filmmaking. Cape of Good Hope (2004) - For excellence in filmmaking. Dying Gaul, The (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Dying Gaul, The (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Everything Is Illuminated (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Everything Is Illuminated (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Hustle & Flow (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Hustle & Flow (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Junebug (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Junebug (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Layer Cake (2004) - For excellence in filmmaking. Layer Cake (2004) - For excellence in filmmaking. Lord of War (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Lord of War (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Nine Lives (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Nine Lives (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Thing About My Folks, The (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Thing About My Folks, The (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Upside of Anger, The (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking. Upside of Anger, The (2005) - For excellence in filmmaking.


Winners:
	Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, The (2005) Voces inocentes (2004)


Awarded to:
	Saul Zaentz - For producing. King Kong (2005) - For the special effects.


Awarded to:
	Jane Fonda Howard Shore - For excellence in film music composition.