Brokeback's Opening Weekend Goes Beyond Box Office Numbers - The Critics Declare a Mountain High!

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Box Office Report:

Brokeback Mountain - $545,000
5 theatres - $109,000 theatre average

This is the highest theatre average for a non-animated film in box office history. The top slots all belong to Disney films.

American Film Institute's Top 10 Films of 2005:

Brokeback Mountain - Capote - Crash - The 40 Year Old Virgin - Good Night and Good Luck - A History of Violence - King Kong - Munich - The Squid and the Whale - Syriana


New York Film Critics Online:
Picture: The Squid and the Whale
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Actress: Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
Supporting Actor: Oliver Platt - Casanova
Supporting Actress: Amy Adams - Junebug
Breakthrough Performer: Terrence Howard
Debut Director: Paul Haggis - Crash
Screenplay: Crash
Documentary: Grizzly Man
Foreign Language Film: Downfall
Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Cinematography: March of the Penguins

Top 10 Films:
The Best of Youth - Brokeback Mountain - Capote - The Constant Gardener - Crash - Good Night and Good Luck - Munich - The Squid and the Wale - Syriana


Boston Society of Film Critics:
Picture: Brokeback Mountain (ru: Munich)
Director: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain (ru: Steven Spielberg - Munich)
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote (ru: Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain)
Actress: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line (ru: Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice)
Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man (ru: Oliver Platt - Casanova & The Ice Harvest)
Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener - Capote & The 40 Year Old Virgin & The Ballad of Jack and Rose
Screenplay: Capote (ru: Munich)
Documentary: Murderball (ru: Grizzly Man)
New Filmmaker: Joe Wright - Pride and Prejudice (ru: Paul Haggis - Crash)
Ensemble: Syriana (ru: Crash)
Cinematography: Good Night and Good Luck (ru: Brokeback Mountain)
Foregin Film: Kung Fu Hustle (ru: 2046)


Los Angeles Film Critics Association:

Picture: Brokeback Mountain (ru: A History of Violence)
Director: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain (ru: David Cronenberg - A History of Violence)
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote (ru: Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain)
Actress: Vera Farmiga - Down to the Bone (ru: Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener - The Ballad of Jack and Rose & Capote & The 40 Year Old Virgin & The Interpreter (ru: Amy Adams - Junebug)
Supporting Actor: William Hurt - A History of Violence (ru: Frank Langella - Good Night and Good Luck)
Screenplay: Capote & The Squid and the Whale (tie)


Broadcast Film Critics Association - Critics' Choice Awards

Best Picture:
Brokeback Mountain - Capote - Cinderella Man - The Constant Gardener - Crash - Good Night and Good Luck - King Kong - Memoirs of a Geisha - Munich - Walk the Line

Best Actor:
Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
David Strathairn - Good Night and Good Luck

Best Actress:
Joan Allen - The Upside of Anger
Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron - North Country
Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line

Best Supporting Actor:
George Clooney - Syriana
Kevin Costner - The Upside of Anger
Matt Dillon - Crash
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
Terrence Howard - Crash

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams - Junebug
Maria Bello - A History of Violence
Catherine Keener - Capote
Frances McDormand - North Country
Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain

Best Acting Ensemble:
Crash - Good Night and Good Luck - Rent - Syriana - Sin City

Best Director:
George Clooney - Good Night and Good Luck
Paul Haggis - Crash
Ron Howard - Cinderella Man
Peter Jackson - King Kong
Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg - Munich

Best Writer:
Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale
George Clooney & Grant Heslov - Good Night and Good Luck
Dan Futterman - Capote
Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco - Crash
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain

To read the rest of their nominees, go here.