The 77th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 10 January 2006.

Top 10 films

1. Good Night, and Good Luck.
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. Capote
4. Crash
5. A History of Violence
6. Match Point
7. Memoirs of a Geisha
8. Munich
9. Syriana
10. Walk the Line

Top Foreign Films

1. Paradise Now
2. 2046
3. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
4. Downfall (Der Untergang)
5. Walk on Water

Top Five Documentaries

1. March of the Penguins
2. Ballets Russes
3. Grizzly Man
4. Mad Hot Ballroom
5. Murderball

Winners

• Best Film:
  • Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Paradise Now
• Best Actor:
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
• Best Actress:
  • Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Gong Li - Memoirs of a Geisha
• Best Acting by an Ensemble:
  • Mrs Henderson Presents
• Breakthrough Performance Actor:
  • Terrence Howard - Crash, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and Hustle & Flow
• Breakthrough Performance Actress:
  • Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World
• Best Director:
  • Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
• Best Directorial Debut:
  • Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies
• Best Documentary Feature:
  • March of the Penguins
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Corpse Bride
• Best Screenplay - Adapted:
  • Syriana - Stephen Gaghan
• Best Screenplay - Original:
  • The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach
• Best Film or Mini-Series Made for Cable TV:
  • Lackawanna Blues
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Jane Fonda
• Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:
  • David Cronenberg
• Career Achievement - Music Composition:
  • Howard Shore
• Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects:
  • King Kong
• William K. Everson Award for Film History:
  • George Feltenstein
• Special Achievement in Producing:
  • Saul Zaentz
• Special Recognition of Films That Reflect Freedom of Expression:
  • Innocent Voices
  • The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
• Special Recognition For Excellence In Filmmaking:
  • Breakfast on Pluto
  • Cape of Good Hope
  • The Dying Gaul
  • Everything Is Illuminated
  • Hustle & Flow
  • Junebug
  • Layer Cake
  • Lord of War
  • Nine Lives
  • The Thing About My Folks
  • The Upside of Anger