The 4th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2005, were given on December 12, 2005.^[1][2]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Munich

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

Best Director

Steven Spielberg – Munich

• George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Ron Howard – Cinderella Man
• Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
• Fernando Meirelles – The Constant Gardener

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
• Charlize Theron – North Country

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Giamatti – Cinderella Man

• Matt Dillon – Crash
• Terrence Howard – Crash
• Geoffrey Rush – Munich
• Peter Sarsgaard – Jarhead

Best Supporting Actress

Amy Adams – Junebug

• Brenda Blethyn – Pride & Prejudice
• Taraji P. Henson – Hustle & Flow
• Catherine Keener – Capote
• Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Screenplay

Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco – Crash

• George Clooney and Grant Heslov – Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Craig Brewer – Hustle & Flow
• Angus MacLachlan – Junebug
• Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale

Best Adapted Screenplay

Dan Futterman – Capote

• Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana – Brokeback Mountain
• Arthur Golden, Robin Swicord, and Doug Wright – Memoirs of a Geisha
• Tony Kushner – Munich
• Deborah Moggach – Pride & Prejudice

Best Foreign Language Film

Kung Fu Hustle

• Innocent Voices
• Paradise Now
• Schultze Gets the Blues
• Turtles Can Fly

Best Animated Feature

Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

• Chicken Little
• Corpse Bride
• Madagascar
• Robots

Best Documentary

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

• Grizzly Man
• Mad Hot Ballroom
• March of the Penguins
• Murderball

Best Breakthrough Performance

Terrence Howard – Hustle & Flow

• Amy Adams – Junebug
• Q'orianka Kilcher – The New World
• Taryn Manning – Hustle & Flow
• Aishwarya Rai – Bride and Prejudice

Best Ensemble

Crash

• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Pride & Prejudice
• Rent
• Sin City

Best Art Direction

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith