| 77th National Board of Review Awards (2005) |
| Top 10 films (Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year): |
| Good Night, and Good Luck. | |
| Brokeback Mountain | |
| Capote | |
| Crash | |
| A History of Violence | |
| Match Point | |
| Memoirs of a Geisha | |
| Munich | |
| Syriana | |
| Walk the Line |
| Best Film: |
| Good Night, and Good Luck. |
| Best Director: |
| Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain |
| Best Acting by an Ensemble: |
| Mrs Henderson Presents |
| Best Actor: |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote |
| Best Actress: |
| Felicity Huffman - Transamerica |
| Best Supporting Actor: |
| Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain |
| Best Supporting Actress: |
| Gong Li - Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Best Screenplay - Adapted: |
| Syriana - Stephen Gaghan |
| Best Screenplay - Original: |
| The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach |
| Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects: |
| King Kong |
| Best Foreign Language Film: |
| Paradise Now |
| Best Documentary Feature: |
| March of the Penguins |
| Best Animated Feature: |
| Corpse Bride |
| Best Directorial Debut: |
| Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies |
| Breakthrough Performance Actor: |
| Terrence Howard - Crash, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and Hustle & Flow |
| Breakthrough Performance Actress: |
| Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World |
| Best Film or Mini-Series Made for Cable TV: |
| Lackawanna Blues |
| Career Achievement Award: |
| Jane Fonda |
| Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: |
| David Cronenberg |
| Career Achievement - Music Composition: |
| Howard Shore |
| William K. Everson Award for Film History: |
| George Feltenstein |
| Special Achievement in Producing: |
| Saul Zaentz |
| Special Recognition of Films That Reflect Freedom of Expression: |
| Innocent Voices | |
| The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till |
| Top Foreign Films: |
| Paradise Now | |
| 2046 | |
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress | |
| Downfall (Der Untergang) | |
| Walk on Water |
| Top Five Documentaries: |
| March of the Penguins | |
| Ballets Russes | |
| Grizzly Man | |
| Mad Hot Ballroom | |
| Murderball |
| Special Recognition For Excellence In Filmmaking: |
| Breakfast on Pluto | |
| Cape of Good Hope | |
| The Dying Gaul | |
| Everything Is Illuminated | |
| Hustle & Flow | |
| Junebug | |
| Layer Cake | |
| Lord of War | |
| Nine Lives | |
| The Thing About My Folks | |
| The Upside of Anger |