31st Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (2005)

Best Picture:

	Brokeback Mountain
	Runner-up: A History of Violence

Best Director:

	Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
	Runner-up: David Cronenberg - A History of Violence

Best Actor:

	Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
	Runner-up: Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain

Best Actress:

	Vera Farmiga - Down to the Bone
	Runner-up: Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents

Best Supporting Actor:

	William Hurt - A History of Violence
	Runner-up: Frank Langella - Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Supporting Actress:

	Catherine Keener - The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Capote, and The Interpreter
	Runner-up: Amy Adams - Junebug

Best Screenplay (TIE):

	Dan Futterman - Capote
	Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale

Best Cinematography:

	Robert Elswit - Good Night, and Good Luck.
	Runner-up: Christopher Doyle, Pung-Leung Kwan, and Lai Yiu-fai - 2046

Best Production Design:

	William Chang - 2046
	Runner-up: James D. Bissell - Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Music Score:

	Joe Hisaishi and Youmi Kimura - Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)
	Runner-up: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Tony Takitani

Best Foreign-Language Film:

	Caché • France/Austria/Germany/Italy
	Runner-up: 2046 • Hong Kong

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:

	Grizzly Man
	Runner-up: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Best Animation:

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:

Peter Watkins - La Commune (Paris, 1871)

New Generation Award:

Terrence Howard

Career Achievement Award:

Richard Widmark

Special Citation:

	Kevin Thomas for his contribution to film culture in Los Angeles.
	David Shepard, Bruce Posner, and the Anthology Film Archives to honor Unseen Cinema, an unprecedented 8-disc collection of films from 1894 to 1941.