BEST FEATURE (Award given to producer) * Executive producers are not listed. Brokeback Mountain: Producers: Diana Ossana, James Schamus Capote: Producers: Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven Good Night, and Good Luck: Producer: Grant Heslov The Squid and the Whale: Producers: Wes Anderson, Peter Newman, Charles Corwin, Clara Markowicz The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: Producers: Michael Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones, Luc Besson, Pierre-Ange Le Pogam BEST DIRECTOR Ang Lee: Brokeback Mountain George Clooney: Good Night, and Good Luck. Gregg Araki: Mysterious Skin Rodrigo García: Nine Lives Noah Baumbach: The Squid and the Whale BEST SCREENPLAY Ayad Akhtar, Joseph Castelo, Tom Glynn: The War Within Guillermo Arriaga: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Noah Baumbach: The Squid and the Whale Dan Futterman: Capote Rodrigo García: Nine Lives BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE Amy Adams: Junebug Maggie Gyllenhaal: Happy Endings Allison Janney: Our Very Own Michelle Williams: Brokeback Mountain Robin Wright Penn: Nine Lives BEST SUPPORTING MALE Firdous Bamji: The War Within Matt Dillon: Crash Jesse Eisenberg: The Squid and the Whale Barry Pepper: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Jeffrey Wright: Broken Flowers BEST FEMALE LEAD Felicity Huffman: Transamerica Dina Korzun: Forty Shades of Blue Laura Linney: The Squid and the Whale S. Epatha Merkerson: Lackawanna Blues Cyndi Williams: Room BEST MALE LEAD Jeff Daniels: The Squid and the Whale Philip Seymour Hoffman: Capote Terrence Howard: Hustle & Flow Heath Ledger: Brokeback Mountain David Strathairn: Good Night, and Good Luck.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Robert Elswit: Good Night, and Good Luck. John Foster: Keane Adam Kimmel: Capote Chris Menges: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Harris Savides: Last Days
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 3, 2006. Read the original PDF.