The Critics’ Choice board may have announced their nominations, but the LA branch have already announced its winners. And it included a few surprises.
Brokeback Mountain was, as expected, the winner of Best Picture and Best Director for Ang Lee, further cementing it as favourite to sweep the awards season, but it was Capote that took the most awards. Philip Seymour Hoffman pipped Heath Ledger to take Best Actor and the film went home with Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Catherine Keener too.
But the Best Actress winner was the night's big surprise, going to Vera Farmiga for drug rehab drama Down To The Bone. Although critically praised the film has not even been mentioned in passing for in any awards chatter and has yet to be released in the UK.
The full list of winners:
Director: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain"
Runner-up: David Cronenberg, "A History of Violence"
Actress: Vera Farmiga, "Down to the Bone"
Runner-up: Judi Dench, "Mrs. Henderson Presents"
Actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, "Capote"
Runner-up: Heath Ledger, "Brokeback Mountain"
Screenplay: Tie - "Capote" by Dan Futterman and "The Squid and the Whale" by Noah Baumbach
Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener, "Capote", "Ballad of Jack and Rose", "The 40 Year Old Virgin" and "The Interpreter"
Runner-up: Amy Adams, "Junebug"
Supporting Actor: William Hurt, "A History of Violence"
Runner-up: Frank Langella, "Good Night, And Good Luck."
Foreign Language Film: "Cache" directed by Michael Haneke
Runner-up: "2046" directed by Wong Kar-Wai
Documentary/Non-Fiction Film: "Grizzly Man" directed by Werner Herzog
Runner-up: "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" directed by Alex Gibney
Production Design: William Chang, "2046"
Runner-up: Jim Bissell, "Good Night, And Good Luck."
Animation: "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"
Music/Score: Joe Hisaishi, Youmi Kimura, "Howl's Moving Castle"
Runner-up: Ryuichiu Sakamoto, "Tony Takitani "
Cinematography: Robert Elswit, "Good Night, And Good Luck"
Runner-up: Christopher Doyle, "2046"
New Generation: Terrence Howard