Best Picture, English Language
Brokeback Mountain (winner!)
- The New World
- A History of Violence
- Munich
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Best Picture, Non-English Language
Caché (winner!)
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
- Paradise Now
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
- L’Enfant
- Linda Linda Linda
Best Actor
Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) (winner!)
- Presley Chweneyagae (Tsotsi)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
- David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck)
- Ion Fiscuteanu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)
Best Actress
Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl – The Final Days) (winner!)
- Ellen Page (Hard Candy)
- Q’orianka Kilcher (The New World)
- Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)
- Naomi Watts (King Kong)
Best Supporting Actor
Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) (winner!)
- Ed Harris (A History of Violence)
- William Hurt (A History of Violence)
- Mickey Rourke (Sin City)
- Clifton Collins Jr. (Capote)
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (Junebug) (winner!)
- Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
- Scarlett Johnasson (Match Point)
- Maria Bello (A History of Violence)
- Seema Biswas (Water)
Best Director
Michael Haneke (Caché) (winner!)
- David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)
- Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
- Steven Spielberg (Munich)
- Terrence Mallick (The New World)
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki (The New World) (winner!)
- Dion Beebe (Memoirs Of A Geisha)
- Roman Osin (Pride And Prejudice)
- Rodrigo Prieto (Brokeback Mountain)
- Janusz Kaminski (Munich)
Best Original Screenplay
Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (L’Enfant) (winner!)
- George Clooney & Grant Heslov (Good Night, and Good Luck)
- Hany Abu-Assad, Bero Beyer & Pierre Hodgson (Paradise Now)
- Woody Allen (Match Point)
- Fred Breinersdorfer (Sophie Scholl – The Final Days)
- Michael Haneke (Caché)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain, from the story by Annie Proulx) (winner!)
- Tony Kushner & Eric Roth (Munich, from the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas)
- Josh Olson (A History of Violence, from the graphic novel by John Wagner & Vince Locke)
- Dan Futterman (Capote, from the biography by Gerald Clarke)
- Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking, from the novel by Christopher Buckley)
Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli (Pride & Prejudice) (winner!)
- Alberto Iglesias (The Constant Gardener)
- Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain)
- John Williams (Munich)
- Howard Shore (A History of Violence)
Best Adapted/Song/Musical Score
T-Bone Burnett (executive music producer); John R. Cash (adapted songs) (Walk the Line) (winner!)
- Danny Elfman (score producer and songwriter); John August (lyricist) (Corpse Bride)
- Kyoko Kitahara (music producer); Ryomei Shirai (band producer); The Blue Hearts (adapted songs); (Linda Linda Linda)
- Simon Chamberlain (musical director) (Mrs Henderson Presents)
- Charles Hazlewood (conductor); Georges Bizet, Ludovic Halévy & Henri Meilhac (adapted opera “Carmen”) (U-Carmen)
- Michiru Oshima & Ryomei Shirai (original music) (Princess Raccoon)
Best Original Song
“Travelin’ Thru”, Dolly Parton (Transamerica) (winner!)
- “A Love That Will Never Grow Old”, Gustavo Santaolalla and Bernie Taupin (Brokeback Mountain)
- “Mdlwembe”, Kabelo ‘Kaybee’ Ikaneng (Tsotsi)
- “If I Apologised”, Iain Ballamy (MirrorMask)
- “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”, Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman & Paul Beauregard (Hustle & Flow)
- “So Long & Thanks for All the Fish”, Joby Talbot, Garth Jennings & Christopher Austin (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
Best Sound
King Kong (winner!)
- War Of The Worlds
- Caché
- Joyeux Noel
- Munich
Best Editing
Michael Kahn (Munich) (winner!)
- Claire Simpson (The Constant Gardener)
- Stephen Mirrione (Good Night, and Good Luck.)
- Sander Vos (Paradise Now)
- Gus Van Sant (Last Days)
Best Art Direction
Ian Baille & Nick Gottschalk & Mark Swain (Pride & Prejudice) (winner!)
- Leslie Tomkins & Kevin Phipps et al (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
- David Crank & Sarah Hauldren & Rosie Hardwick (The New World)
- Tomas Voth & Patrick M. Sullivan Jr. (Memoirs of a Geisha)
- Simon Lamont & Alan Tomkins et al (Batman Begins)
Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood (Memoirs of a Geisha) (winner!)
- Gabriella Pescucci (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
- Jacqueline Durran (Pride & Prejudice)
- Dolly Ahluwalia (Water)
- Sandy Powell (Mrs Henderson Presents)
Best Special Effects
King Kong (winner!)
- Sin City
- War Of The Worlds
- Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
- Batman Begins
- Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith
Best Short
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morrello (winner!)
- The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
- One Man Band
- The Meaning of Life
- 9
- West Bank Story
