2005 NBR award-winners announced

Clooney has a good night, and good luck as the National Board of Review hands out its annual awards

Dec 13 2005

George Clooney has bagged the prestigious National Board of Review award for best film of 2005 with his second directorial feature 'Good Night, and Good Luck', as the awards season rolls on.

Already beginning to make a name for itself as an award-givers favourite, Ang Lee's controversial western 'Brokeback Mountain' won the best director, and made Jake Gyllenhaal best supporting actor.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was named best actor for portraying the titular crime author in literary biopic 'Capote', with Felicity Huffman taking best actress for her portrayal of pre-op transsexual Stanley 'Bree' Osbourne in 'Transamerica'.

'Paradise Now' won best foreign-language film by tactfully tackling the difficult theme of terrorism. The film follows two childhood friends in Tel Aviv as they are recruited to carry out a suicide bombing. Best documentary went to 'March of the Penguins', and Tim Burton's 'Corpse Bride' was named best animated feature.

Elsewhere, best supporting actress was awarded to Gong Li for 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. Whereas best breakthrough performance by an actor was claimed by Terrence Howard for his work in 'Crash', 50 Cent gangsta-rap flick 'Get Rich or Die Trying' and 'Hustle & Flow', with its actress equivalent picked up by Q'Orianka Kilcher, for her performance in 'The New World'.

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