[2005 film wrap-up]

Best feature: Capote.

Runners-up: Everything is Illuminated, Transamerica, Walk the Line.

Best documentary: Murderball.

Other good stuff: Batman Begins, Brokeback Mountain, Goodnight and Good Luck, A History of Violence, Mirrormask, The New World, Serenity, The Squid and the Whale, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

The best movies no one else saw: Cinderella Man, In Her Shoes, Jarhead, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Best ride: Kamikaze Girls.

Movie I was most surprised that I enjoyed: Madagascar.

Most woefully overlooked by the Academy: Nine Lives, for Robin Wright Penn.