Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus

• Capote – Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven
• The Constant Gardener – Simon Channing Williams
• Crash – Cathy Schulman, Don Cheadle and Bob Yari
• Good Night, and Good Luck – Grant Heslov

Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain

• Bennett Miller – Capote
• Fernando Meirelles – The Constant Gardener
• George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck
• Paul Haggis – Crash

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote

• David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow
• Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar
• Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line as Johnny Cash
• Ralph Fiennes – The Constant Gardener as Justin Quayle

Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line as June Carter Cash

• Charlize Theron – North Country as Josey Aimes
• Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents as Laura Henderson
• Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener as Tessa Abbott-Quayle
• Ziyi Zhang – Memoirs of a Geisha as Chiyo Sakamoto / Sayuri Nitta

Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist

• Don Cheadle – Crash as Detective Graham Waters
• George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck as Fred W. Friendly
• George Clooney – Syriana as Bob Barnes
• Matt Dillon – Crash as Sergeant John Ryan

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• Brenda Blethyn – Pride & Prejudice as Mrs. Bennet
• Catherine Keener – Capote as Nelle Harper Lee
• Frances McDormand – North Country as Glory Dodge
• Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain as Alma Beers Del Mar

Crash – Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco

• Cinderella Man – Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman
• Good Night, and Good Luck – George Clooney and Grant Heslov
• Hotel Rwanda – Keir Pearson and Terry George
• Mrs Henderson Presents – Martin Sherman

Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana

• Capote – Dan Futterman
• The Constant Gardener – Jeffrey Caine
• A History of Violence – Josh Olson
• Pride & Prejudice – Deborah Moggach

Memoirs of a Geisha – Dion Beebe

• Brokeback Mountain – Rodrigo Prieto
• The Constant Gardener – César Charlone
• Crash – J. Michael Muro
• March of the Penguins – Laurent Chalet and Jerome Maison

Memoirs of a Geisha – Colleen Atwood

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Gabriella Pescucci
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Isis Mussenden
• Mrs Henderson Presents – Sandy Powell
• Pride & Prejudice – Jacqueline Durran

The Constant Gardener – Claire Simpson

• Brokeback Mountain – Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor
• Crash – Hughes Winborne
• Good Night, and Good Luck – Stephen Mirrione
• March of the Penguins – Sabine Emiliani

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Howard Berger, Gregory Nicotero and Nikki Gooley

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Peter Owen and Ivana Primorac
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Eithné Fennell
• Memoirs of a Geisha – Noriko Watanabe, Kate Biscoe, Lyndell Quiyou and Kelvin R. Trahan
• Pride & Prejudice – Fae Hammand

Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams

• Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla
• The Constant Gardener – Alberto Iglesias
• Mrs Henderson Presents – George Fenton
• Walk the Line – T Bone Burnett

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Stuart Craig

• Batman Begins – Nathan Crowley
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Alex McDowell
• King Kong – Grant Major
• Memoirs of a Geisha – John Myhre

Walk the Line – Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill, Peter Kurland and Donald Sylvester

• Batman Begins – David Evans, Stefan Henrix and Peter Lindsay
• The Constant Gardener – Joakim Sundström, Stuart Wilson, Mike Prestwood Smith and Sven Taits
• Crash – Richard Van Dyke, Sandy Gendler, Adam Jenkins and Marc Fishman
• King Kong – Hammond Peek, Christopher Boyes, Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

King Kong – Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Brian Van't Hul and Richard Taylor

• Batman Begins – Janek Sirrs, Dan Glass, Chris Corbould and Paul Franklin
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Nick Davis, Jon Thum, Chas Jarrett and Joss Williams
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney and Scott Farrar
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Jim Mitchell, John Richardson, Tim Webber and Tim Alexander

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Claire Jennings, David Sproxton, Nick Park, Steve Box, Mark Burton and Bob Baker

• A Cock and Bull Story – Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom and Frank Cottrell-Boyce
• The Constant Gardener – Simon Channing Williams, Fernando Meirelles and Jeffrey Caine
• Festival – Christopher Young and Annie Griffin
• Pride & Prejudice – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Joe Wright and Deborah Moggach

Pride & Prejudice – Joe Wright (Director)

• Everything – Richard Hawkins (Director)
• Festival – Annie Griffin (Writer/Director)
• Shooting Dogs – David Belton (Producer)
• Tsotsi – Peter Fudakowski (Producer)

Fallen Art – Jarek Sawko, Piotr Sikora and Tomasz Bagiński

• Film Noir – Osbert Parker
• Kamiya's Correspondence – Sumito Sakakibara
• The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello – Anthony Lucas, Julia Lucas and Mark Shirrefs
• Rabbit – Run Wrake

Antonio's Breakfast – Howard Stogdon, Amber Templemore-Finlayson and Daniel Mulloy

• Call Register – Kit Hawkins, Adam Tudhope and Ed Roe
• Heavy Metal Drummer – Amanda Boyle and Luke Morris Toby MacDonald
• Heydar, an Afghan in Tehran – Homayoun Assadian and Babak Jalali
• Lucky – Bex Hopkins and Avie Luthra

The Beat That My Heart Skipped – Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard

• Joyeux Noël – Christophe Rossignon and Christian Carion
• Kung Fu Hustle – Stephen Chow, Chui Po Chu and Jeffrey Lau
• Le Grand Voyage – Humbert Balsan and Ismaël Ferroukhi
• Tsotsi – Peter Fudakowski and Gavin Hood

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• Gael García Bernal
• Michelle Williams
• Rachel McAdams