The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association voted the frontier romance BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN as the best film of 2005, according to the results of its 12th annual critics’ poll released today.

Rounding out the composite list of the top 10 films of the year were CAPOTE (2), GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (3), CRASH (4), CINDERELLA MAN (5), SYRIANA (6), PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (7), A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (8), KING KONG (9) and THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA (10).

For Best Actor, the association named Philip Seymour Hoffman for CAPOTE. Runners-up included Heath Ledger for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2), David Strathairn for GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (3), Joaquin Phoenix for WALK THE LINE (4) and Russell Crowe for CINDERELLA MAN (5).

Felicity Huffman was voted Best Actress for TRANSAMERICA. Next in the voting were Keira Knightley for PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2), Reese Witherspoon for WALK THE LINE (3), Joan Allen for THE UPSIDE OF ANGER (4) and Charlize Theron for NORTH COUNTRY (5).

In the Best Supporting Actor category, the winner was Matt Dillon for CRASH. He was followed by Paul Giamatti for CINDERELLA MAN (2), Jake Gyllenhaal for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (3), George Clooney for SYRIANA (4) and Jesse Eisenberg for THE SQUID AND THE WHALE (5).

For Best Supporting Actress, the association named Catherine Keener for CAPOTE. Runners-up included Michelle Williams for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2), Rachel Weisz for THE CONSTANT GARDENER (3), Scarlett Johansson for MATCH POINT (4) and Amy Adams for JUNEBUG (5).

Ang Lee was voted Best Director for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. Next in the voting were George Clooney for GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK (2), Bennett Miller for CAPOTE (3), Peter Jackson for KING KONG (4) and Paul Haggis for CRASH (5).

The association voted PARADISE NOW as the best foreign-language film of the year. Runners-up were KUNG FU HUSTLE (2), DOWNFALL (3), NOBODY KNOWS (4) and BALZAC AND THE LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS (5).

MURDERBALL won for Best Documentary over MARCH OF THE PENGUINS (2), GRIZZLY MAN (3), ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM (4) and MAD HOT BALLROOM (5).

WALLACE AND GROMIT: THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT was named the best animated film of 2003, with CORPSE BRIDE as runner-up. The award for Best Cinematography went to Rodrigo Prieto for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, followed by Emmanuel Lubezki for THE NEW WORLD. Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana won the Best Screenplay award for BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN over Dan Futterman for CAPOTE.

The association voted ME AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW as the winner of the Russell Smith Award, named for the late Dallas Morning News film critic. The honor is given annually to the best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film.

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Another kind of Brokeback sweep.

Another plus for Felicity Huffman and another negative for Joaquin Pheonix. Unless he gets a surprising surge of buzz late in the race, I think we can safely assume the race is going to come down between Hoffman and Ledger till the end.

Munich is really not showing up anywhere...

Phoenix seems to be pretty much out.

Knightley ahead of Witherspoon? Interesting to say the least!

Ziyi and Gong Li really need to show up on these awards where they mention top 5's since they are not going to be on the ones that only announce the winner and runner-up.

...and Keaton too, if she still has any chance..


Anyways, great for Brokeback once again


And I'd say that Felicity Huffman has an edge over Judi Dench right now - she might even *gasp* steal Witherspoon's frontrunner status if she wins the globe.. I still don't think Dench will be snubbed (been there, heh), but Theron is still a threat.. assuming that Allen is in, as I always assumed from the beginning.. (and I'll keep assuming until the SAG nominations, at least)

As for Phoenix, he's going to be nominated and that's all - the fight is clearly between Ledger and Hoffman now..

Could Munich's lack of mentions be a result of the late release date and no campaign?

I'm surprised to see KK doing so well in the best actress race. Looks like it will come down to Reese vs Felicity with Keira as a possible spoiler.