My Best of 2005 list

As my first post I would like to present my Best of 2005 list. So, without further ado, here it is:

Top Ten Best Pictures
Good Night, and Good Luck
A History of Violence
The Constant Gardener
Head-On
Saraband
The Best of Youth
Cache
Walk on Water
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Breakfast on Pluto

Runners Up (In No Particular Order
Crash
Kings and Queen
The Squid and the Whale
Capote
Paradise Now
Munich
Match Point
The White Countess
Brokeback Mountain
Broken Flowers
The Memory of a Killer
The Edukators
Duma

Best Documentaries
Grizzly Man
The March of the Penguins
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Murderball

Best Actors
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Ralph Fiennes (The Constant Gardener & The White Countess)
Birol Unel (Head-On)
Erland Josephson (Saraband)
David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Lior Ashkenazi (Walk on Water)
Cillian Murphy (Breakfast on Pluto)
Bruno Ganz (Downfall)
Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
Daniel Auteuil (Cache)
Tommy Lee Jones (The Three Burials)
Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale)
Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence)
Mathieu Amalrich (Kings and Queen)
Terrence Howard (Hustle and Flow)
Daniel Day-Lewis (The Ballad of Jack and Rose)
Sergio Castellitto (Don't Move, Katerina in the Big City & My Mother's Smile
Bill Murray (Broken Flowers)
Damian Lewis (Keane)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Mysterious Skin)


Best Actresses
Liv Ullmann (Saraband)
Joan Allen (The Upside of Anger)
Emmanuelle Devos (Kings and Queen)
Penelope Cruz (Don't Move)
Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)
Juliette Binoche (Cache)
Natasha Richardson (Asylum & The White Countess)
Sibel Kikulli (Head-On)
Laura Linney (The Squid and the Whale)

Best Supporting Actors
William Hurt (A History of Violence)
George Clooney (Syriana)
Matt Dillon (Crash)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
Clifton Collins, Jr. (Capote)
Daniel Craig (Munich)
Barry Pepper (The Three Burials)
Kevin Costner (The Upside of Anger)

Best Supporting Actresses
Maria Bello (A History of Violence)
Scarlett Johansson (Match Point)
Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
Thandie Newton (Crash)
Amy Adams (Junebug)

Best Directors
George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Ingmar Bergman (Saraband)
David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)
Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener)
Fatih Akin (Head-On)
Michael Haneke (Cache)
Neil Jordan (Breakfast on Pluto)
Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

Best Original Screenplays
George Clooney and Grant Heslov (Good Night, and Good Luck
Michael Haneke (Cache)
Woody Allen (Match Point)
Guillermo Arriaga (The Three Burials)
Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers)
Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale)

Best Adapted Screenplays
Josh Olson (A History of Violence)
Jeffrey Caine (The Constant Gardener)
Neil Jordan & Patrick McCabe (Breakfast on Pluto)
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain)
Tony Kushner and Eric Roth (Munich)