The Critics' Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Nominees are selected by written ballots in a week-long voting period, which ended this year at midnight on December 9, 2005 and were announced on December 11, 2005. The winners were revealed at the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards ceremony on January 9, 2006 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, which was broadcast live on The WB Television Network. Special awards are given out at the discretion of the BFCA Board of Directors.

The Broadcast Film Critics Association prides itself on its ability to anticipate Academy Award nominations: between 1997 and 2004, the Critics’ Choice nominations predicted all but two of 35 Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. By comparison, the Golden Globe Awards were three times more likely to go different way during the same period. Though, the fact that the BFCA chooses more than the five films nominated for the Academy Awards — ten pictures were nominated for the 2005 awards — may account for some of this greater predictive power.

2007 Nominees

Best Picture

• American Gangster
• Atonement
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Into the Wild
• Juno
• The Kite Runner
• Michael Clayton
• No Country for Old Men - Winner
• Sweeney Todd
• There Will Be Blood

Best Actor

• George Clooney - Michael Clayton
• Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood - Winner
• Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
• Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
• Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild
• Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Best Actress

• Amy Adams - Enchanted
• Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• Julie Christie - Away from Her - Winner
• Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
• Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
• Ellen Page - Juno

Best Supporting Actor

• Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men - Winner
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
• Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
• Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress

• Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
• Catherine Keener - Into the Wild
• Vanessa Redgrave - Atonement
• Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone - Winner
• Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Best Acting Ensemble

• Hairspray - Winner
• Juno
• No Country for Old Men
• Sweeney Todd
• Gone Baby Gone
• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Best Director

• Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
• Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men - Winner
• Sidney Lumet'' - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• Sean Penn - Into the Wild
• Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Joe Wright - Atonement

Best Writer

• Diablo Cody - Juno - Winner
• Joel and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
• Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
• Nancy Oliver - Lars and the Real Girl
• Sean Penn - Into the Wild
• Aaron Sorkin - Charlie Wilson's War

Best Animated Feature

• Bee Movie
• Beowulf
• Persepolis
• Ratatouille - Winner
• The Simpsons Movie

Best Young Actor

• Michael Cera - Juno
• Michael Cera - Superbad
• Freddie Highmore - August Rush
• Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada - The Kite Runner - Winner
• Ed Sanders - Sweeney Todd

Best Young Actress

• Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray - Winner
• Dakota Blue Richards - The Golden Compass
• AnnaSophia Robb - Bridge to Terabithia
• Saoirse Ronan - Atonement

Best Comedy Movie

• Dan in Real Life
• Hairspray
• Juno - Winner
• Knocked Up
• Superbad

Best Family Film

• August Rush
• Enchanted - Winner
• The Golden Compass
• Hairspray
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Best Picture Made for Television

• The Company
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Winner
• Tin Man
• The War

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Winner
• 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
• La Vie En Rose
• Lust, Caution
• The Orphanage

Best Song

• Come So Far by Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, and Elijah Kelley - Hairspray
• Do You Feel Me by Anthony Hamilton - American Gangster
• Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Once - Winner
• Guaranteed by Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
• That's How You Know by Amy Adams - Enchanted

Best Composer

• Marco Beltrami - 10 to Yuma
• Alexandre Desplat - Lust, Caution
• Clint Eastwood - Grace Is Gone
• Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood - Winner
• Dario Marianelli - Atonement
• Alan Menken - Enchanted

Best Documentary

• Darfur Now
• In the Shadow of the Moon
• The King of Kong
• No End in Sight
• Sharkwater
• Sicko - Winner

2005 Nominees

Best Picture

• Brokeback Mountain - Winner
• Capote
• Cinderella Man
• The Constant Gardener
• Crash
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• King Kong
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Munich
• Walk the Line

Best Actor

• Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote - Winner
• 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
• Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
• Charlize Theron - North Country
• Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line - Winner

Best Supporting Actor

• George Clooney - Syriana
• Kevin Costner - The Upside of Anger
• Matt Dillon - Crash
• Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
• Terrence Howard - Crash

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams - Junebug
• Maria Bello - A History of Violence
• Catherine Keener - Capote
• Frances McDormand - North Country
• Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
• Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain

Best Acting Ensemble

• Crash
• Good Night, And Good Luck.
• Rent
• Sin City
• Syriana

Best Director

• George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Paul Haggis - Crash
• Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
• Peter Jackson - King Kong
• Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain - Winner
• Steven Spielberg - Munich

Best Writer

• Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale
• George Clooney, Grant Heslov - Good Night, and Good Luck
• Dan Futterman - Capote
• Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco - Crash
• Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain

Best Animated Feature

• Chicken Little
• Corpse Bride
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Madagascar
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Young Actor

• Jesse Eisenberg - The Squid and the Whale
• Axel Etel - Millions
• Freddie Highmore - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Owen Kline - The Squid and the Whale
• Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Best Young Actress

• Flora Cross - Bee Season
• Dakota Fanning - War of the Worlds
• Georgie Henley - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Q'Orianka Kilcher - The New World
• Emma Watson - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Best Comedy Movie

• The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
• Mrs. Henderson Presents
• The Producers: The Movie Musical
• Wedding Crashers

Best Family Film (live action)

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Best Picture Made for Television

• Into the West
• No Direction Home
• Rome
• Warm Springs

Best Documentary Feature

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Grizzly Man
• Mad Hot Ballroom
• March of the Penguins
• Murderball

Best Foreign Language Film

• 2046
• Caché
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Oldboy
• Paradise Now

Best Song

• "A Love That Will Never Grow Old", Emmylou Harris - Brokeback Mountain
• "Hustle and Flow", Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow
• "Same In Any Language", I Nine - Elizabethtown
• "Seasons of Love", Tracie Thoms, Jesse L. Martin and Cast - Rent
• "Travelin’ Thru", Dolly Parton - Transamerica

Best Soundtrack

• Elizabethtown
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• The Producers: The Movie Musical
• Rent
• Walk the Line

Best Composer

• James Horner - The New World
• Gustavo Santaolalla - Brokeback Mountain
• John Williams - Memoirs of a Geisha
• Nancy Wilson - Elizabethtown

External links

• Broadcast Film Critics Association website