<div style="float: right; font-size: smaller; background-color:#E6E6FA; padding: 12px; margin-left: 5em; margin-bottom: 2em; width: 180px" align="center"> **40th NSFC Awards** January 7, 2006 Best Film: ** Capote ** The **40th National Society of Film Critics Awards**, given on 7 January 2006, honored the best in film for [2005](https://bliptext.com/articles/2005-in-film).

Winners

Best Picture

1. Capote (12)
2. A History of Violence (11)
3. 2046

Best Director

1. David Cronenberg – A History of Violence (32)
2. Wong Kar-wai – 2046 (26)
3. Bennett Miller – Capote (23)

Best Actor

1. Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote (68)
2. Jeff Daniels – The Squid and the Whale (41)
3. Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain (40)

Best Actress

1. Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line (37)
2. Keira Knightley – Pride & Prejudice (27)
3. Kate Dollenmayer – Funny Ha Ha (18)
4. Vera Farmiga – Down to the Bone (18)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Ed Harris – A History of Violence (27)
2. Mathieu Amalric – Munich (22)
3. Frank Langella – Good Night, and Good Luck. (22)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Amy Adams – Junebug (33)
2. Zhang Ziyi – 2046 (28)
3. Catherine Keener – The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Capote, and The Interpreter (22)

Best Screenplay

1. Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale (37)
2. Dan Futterman – Capote (33)
3. Tony Kushner and Eric Roth – Munich (14)

Best Cinematography

1. Christopher Doyle, Kwan Pun Leung, and Lai Yiu-fai – 2046 (50)
2. Robert Elswit – Good Night, and Good Luck. (16)
3. Emmanuel Lubezki – The New World (11)

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Head-On (Gegen die Wand) (26)
2. 2046 (23)
3. Caché (18)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. Grizzly Man (60)
2. Darwin's Nightmare (27)
3. Ballets Russes (19)

Experimental Awards

1. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 21/2 (2005), William Greaves' remarkable investigation into the nature of the acting process and power relationships on a movie set.
2. 13 Lakes, Ten Skies, and 27 Years Later, the three 2005 productions of James Benning. Few have done more over the last thirty years to expand the sensory and temporal boundaries of moving pictures.

Film Heritage Award

Special Citation