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Both the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the New York Film Critics Circle have given their top awards for 2005 to Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain." The winners:
Best Picture
LA: "Brokeback Mountain" (runner-up: "A History of Violence")
NY: "Brokeback Mountain"
Foreign Language Film
LA: "Cache" ("Hidden"), Michael Haneke (runner-up: "2046," Wong Kar Wai)
NY: "2046," Wong Kar Wai
Documentary
LA: "Grizzly Man," Werner Herzog (runner-up: "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," Alex Gibney)
NY: "Grizzly Man" and "The White Diamond," Werner Herzog
Animated Film
LA: "Wallace & Gromit in The Case of the Were-Rabbit," Nick Park & Steve Box
NY: "Howl's Moving Castle," Hayao Miyazaki
Director
LA: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain" (runner-up: David Cronenberg, "A History of Violence")
NY: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain"
Screenplay
LA: (tie) Noah Baumbach, "The Squid & the Whale"; Dan Futterman, "Capote"
NY: Noah Baumbach, "The Squid & the Whale"
Actor
LA: Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Capote" (runner-up: Heath Ledger, "Brokeback Mountain")
NY: Heath Ledger, "Brokeback Mountain"
Actress
LA: Vera Farmiga, "Down to the Bone" (runner-up: Dame Judi Dench, "Mrs. Henderson Presents")
NY: Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line"
Supporting Actress
LA: Catherine Keener, "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Capote," "The Ballad of Jack and Rose," "The Interpreter" (runner-up: Amy Adams, "Junebug")
NY: Maria Bello, "A History of Violence"
Supporting Actor
LA: William Hurt, "A History of Violence" (runner-up: Frank Langella, "Good Night, and Good Luck"
NY: William Hurt, "A History of Violence"
Cinematography
LA: Robert Elswit, "Good Night, and Good Luck" (runner-up: Chris Doyle, Kwan Pun Leung and Yiu-Fai Lai, "2046")
NY: Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, Kwan Pun Leung, “2046”
New Generation Award (LA only)
Terrence Howard
Best First Film (NY only)
Bennett Miller, "Capote"
Music (LA only)
LA: Joe Hisaishi, Youmi Kimura, "Howl’s Moving Castle" (runner-up: Ryuichi Sakamoto, "Tony Takitani")
(NOTE: The New York Critics don't announce their runners-up.)
