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40th NSFC Awards
January 7, 2006
---- Best Film:
Capote
The 40th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 7 January 2006, honored the best in film for
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Winners


Best Picture

1. '' Capote'' (12)
2. '' A History of Violence'' (11)
3. ''
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Best Director

1.
David Cronenberg David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation ...
– '' A History of Violence'' (32)
2. Wong Kar-wai – ''
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'' (26)
3. Bennett Miller – '' Capote'' (23)


Best Actor

1. Philip Seymour Hoffman – '' Capote'' (68)
2.
Jeff Daniels Jeffrey Warren Daniels (born February 19, 1955) is an American actor, comedian, musician, and playwright, known for his work on stage and screen playing diverse characters switching between comedy and drama. He is the recipient of several accol ...
– '' The Squid and the Whale'' (41)
3. Heath Ledger – ''
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'' (40)


Best Actress

1. Reese Witherspoon – '' Walk the Line'' (37)
2. Keira Knightley – ''
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'' (27)
3. Kate Dollenmayer – '' Funny Ha Ha'' (18)
3.
Vera Farmiga Vera Ann Farmiga ( ; born August 6, 1973) is an American actress who is best known for portraying paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren in the Conjuring Universe films '' The Conjuring'' (2013), '' The Conjuring 2'' (2016), '' Annabelle Co ...
– ''
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'' (18)


Best Supporting Actor

1. Ed Harris – '' A History of Violence'' (27)
2. Mathieu Amalric – '' Munich'' (22)
2. Frank Langella – '' Good Night, and Good Luck.'' (22)


Best Supporting Actress

1. Amy Adams – '' Junebug'' (33)
2. Zhang Ziyi – ''
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'' (28)
3. Catherine Keener – '' The 40-Year-Old Virgin'', '' The Ballad of Jack and Rose'', '' Capote'', and ''
The Interpreter ''The Interpreter'' is a 2005 political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, and Jesper Christensen. It was the first film shot inside the United Nations Headquarters, as well as the fina ...
'' (22)


Best Screenplay

1. Noah Baumbach – '' The Squid and the Whale'' (37)
2. Dan Futterman – '' Capote'' (33)
3. Tony Kushner and Eric Roth – '' Munich'' (14)


Best Cinematography

1.
Christopher Doyle Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) () (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer. He has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films, being best known for his collaborations ...
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Kwan Pun Leung Kwan Pun Leung (關本良) is a Hong Kong cinematographer. After starting his career as a photographer in the local arts and culture scene, he made his motion picture debut as director of photography on director Stanley Kwan’s 1997 film '' Hold ...
, and
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– ''
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'' (50)
2.
Robert Elswit Robert Christopher Elswit, (born April 22, 1950) is an American cinematographer. He has collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on six of his films and won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for ''There Will Be Blood''. Elswit has also col ...
– '' Good Night, and Good Luck.'' (16)
3. Emmanuel Lubezki – ''
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'' (11)


Best Foreign Language Film

1. '' Head-On'' (''Gegen die Wand'') (26)
2. ''
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'' (23)
3. '' Caché'' (18)


Best Non-Fiction Film

1. ''
Grizzly Man ''Grizzly Man'' (2005) is an American documentary film by German director Werner Herzog. It chronicles the life and death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell and the death of his girlfriend Amie Huguenard at Katmai National Park, Alaska. The fil ...
'' (60)
2. ''
Darwin's Nightmare ''Darwin's Nightmare'' is a 2004 Austrian-French-Belgian documentary film written and directed by Hubert Sauper, dealing with the environmental and social effects of the fishing industry around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. It premiered at the 2004 V ...
'' (27)
3. ''
Ballets Russes The Ballets Russes () was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America. The company never performed in Russia, where the Revolution disrupted society. A ...
'' (19)


Experimental Awards

1. '' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One'' (1968) and ''Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2'' (2005), William Greaves' remarkable investigation into the nature of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set.
2. ''
13 Lakes ''13 Lakes'' is a 2004 16mm film by American independent filmmaker James Benning. It is an instance of slow cinema, placing emphasis on introspection and contemplation. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States Nationa ...
'', ''Ten Skies'', and ''27 Years Later'', the three 2005 productions of James Benning. Few have done more over the last thirty years to expand the sensory and temporal boundaries of moving pictures.


Film Heritage Award

* Unseen Cinema, the 7-disc DVD box set collection of pre-1942 American avant-garde cinema assembled by
Anthology Film Archives Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.Los Angeles Times'', for his tireless championing in the heart of the world's movie capital of the power and beauty of independent, experimental and foreign film, for his long and important service to moviegoers around the industry, the country and the world.


References


External links


Past Awards
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