The 9th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were given on 16 January 2006.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

A History of Violence

• Brokeback Mountain
• Crash
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Munich

Best Director

David Cronenberg – A History of Violence

• George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Peter Jackson – King Kong
• Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
• Steven Spielberg – Munich

Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote

• Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow
• Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
• Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line
• David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Actress

Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line

• Joan Allen – The Upside of Anger
• Felicity Huffman – Transamerica
• Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice
• Naomi Watts – King Kong

Best Supporting Actor

Mickey Rourke – Sin City

• Matt Dillon – Crash
• Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain
• William Hurt – A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bello – A History of Violence

• Amy Adams – Junebug
• Catherine Keener – Capote
• Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
• Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Screenplay

Good Night, and Good Luck. – George Clooney and Grant Heslov

• Broken Flowers – Jim Jarmusch
• Crash – Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco
• Match Point – Woody Allen
• The Squid and the Whale – Noah Baumbach

Best Adapted Screenplay

Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

• Capote – Dan Futterman
• The Constant Gardener – Jeffrey Caine
• A History of Violence – Josh Olson
• Munich – Tony Kushner and Eric Roth

Best Foreign Language Film

Downfall

• 2046
• Caché
• Kung Fu Hustle
• Oldboy

Best Documentary

Grizzly Man

• The Aristocrats
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• March of the Penguins
• Murderball

Best Animated Feature

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

• Corpse Bride
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Madagascar
• Robots

Best Cinematography

Sin City – Robert Rodriguez

• 2046 – Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan and Lai Yiu-fai
• Brokeback Mountain – Rodrigo Prieto
• Good Night, and Good Luck. – Robert Elswit
• The New World – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Editing

Sin City – Robert Rodriguez

• The Constant Gardener – Claire Simpson
• Good Night, and Good Luck. – Stephen Mirrione
• A History of Violence – Ronald Sanders
• Munich – Michael Kahn

Best Score

Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla

• Batman Begins – James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
• King Kong – James Newton Howard
• Munich – John Williams
• The New World – James Horner

Breakthrough Filmmaker

Paul Haggis – Crash

• Judd Apatow – The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• Craig Brewer – Hustle & Flow
• Bennett Miller – Capote
• Joe Wright – Pride & Prejudice

Breakthrough Performer

Owen Kline – The Squid and the Whale

• Nathan Fillion – Serenity
• Georgie Henley – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
• Tony Jaa – Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
• Q'orianka Kilcher – The New World