<div style="float: right; font-size: smaller; background-color:#E6E6FA; padding: 12px; margin-left: 5em; margin-bottom: 2em; width: 180px" align="center"> ** 18th CFCA Awards ** January 9, 2005 Best Film: ** Crash ** The **18th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards**, given by the [CFCA](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago-film-critics-association) on January 9, 2006, honored the best in film for [2005](https://bliptext.com/articles/2005-in-film).

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote

Best Actress

Joan Allen – The Upside of Anger

Best Cinematography

Brokeback Mountain – Rodrigo Prieto

Best Director

David Cronenberg – A History of Violence

Best Documentary Film

Grizzly Man

Best Film

Crash

Best Foreign Language Film

Caché (Hidden), France

Best Original Score

Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla

Best Screenplay

Crash – Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco

Best Supporting Actor

Mickey Rourke – Sin City

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bello – A History of Violence

Most Promising Filmmaker

Bennett Miller – Capote

Most Promising Performer

Miranda July – Me and You and Everyone We Know