title: 2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
text: # 2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
  
  The 31st Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honored the best in film for 2005.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * Best Picture:
     * Brokeback Mountain
     * Runner-up: A History of Violence
  * Best Director:
     * Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
     * Runner-up: David Cronenberg – A History of Violence
  * Best Actor:
     * Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
     * Runner-up: Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
  * Best Actress:
     * Vera Farmiga – Down to the Bone
     * Runner-up: Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents
  * Best Supporting Actor:
     * William Hurt – A History of Violence
     * Runner-up: Frank Langella – Good Night, and Good Luck.
  * Best Supporting Actress:
     * Catherine Keener – The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Capote, and The Interpreter
     * Runner-up: Amy Adams – Junebug
  * Best Screenplay (TIE):
     * Dan Futterman – Capote
     * Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale
  * Best Cinematography:
     * Robert Elswit – Good Night, and Good Luck.
     * Runner-up: Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan, and Lai Yiu-fai – 2046
  * Best Production Design:
     * William Chang – 2046
     * Runner-up: James D. Bissell – Good Night, and Good Luck.
  * Best Music Score:
     * Joe Hisaishi and Youmi Kimura – Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)
     * Runner-up: Ryuichi Sakamoto – Tony Takitani
  * Best Foreign-Language Film:
     * Caché • France/Austria/Germany/Italy
     * Runner-up: 2046 • Hong Kong
  * Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
     * Grizzly Man
     * Runner-up: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  * Best Animation:
     * Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  * The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
     * Peter Watkins – La Commune (Paris, 1871)
  * New Generation Award:
     * Terrence Howard
  * Career Achievement Award:
     * Richard Widmark
  * Special Citation:
     * Kevin Thomas for his contribution to film culture in Los Angeles.
     * David Shepard, Bruce Posner, and the Anthology Film Archives to honor Unseen Cinema, an unprecedented 8-disc collection of films from 1894 to 1941.
  