Chlotrudis Awards 2005

The 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards were presented March 20, 2005, by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Honoring the best of the past year's independent, documentary and international film, the awards ceremony took place at the venerable Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Guest speaker Lucas Belvaux accepted four awards for his 2002 Trilogy as well as a Body of Work Award. Ellen Page accepted the society's Breakthrough Award; and Vermont-based indie director John O'Brien (Nosey Parker) received the Maverick Award.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Movie

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
The Trilogy (On the Run, An Amazing Couple and After the Life)

• Bad Education
• Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Last Life in the Universe
• Moolaadé
• The Return

Buried Treasure

Nosey Parker

• Infernal Affairs
• The Rage in Placid Lake
• Reconstruction
• Stander

Best Director

Lucas Belvaux - The Trilogy (On the Run, An Amazing Couple and After the Life)

• Jonathan Caouette - Tarnation
• David Gordon Green - Undertow
• Guy Maddin - The Saddest Music in the World
• Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - Last Life in the Universe
• Tsai Ming-liang - Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Andrey Zvyagintsev - The Return

Best Actress

Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake

• Sinitta Boonyasak - Last Life in the Universe
• Toni Collette - Japanese Story
• Fatoumata Coulibaly - Moolaadé
• Anne Reid - The Mother
• Isabella Rossellini - The Saddest Music in the World
• Catalina Sandino Moreno - Maria Full of Grace

Best Actor

Gael García Bernal - Bad Education

• Tadanobu Asano - Last Life in the Universe
• Kevin Bacon - The Woodsman
• Paul Giamatti - Sideways
• Tony Leung - Infernal Affairs
• Jamie Sives - Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Best Supporting Actress

Virginia Madsen - Sideways

• Cate Blanchett - Coffee and Cigarettes
• Shirley Henderson - Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
• Rie Miyazawa - The Twilight Samurai
• Fenella Woolgar - Bright Young Things

Best Supporting Actor

Peter Sarsgaard - Kinsey

• Phil Davis - Vera Drake
• Alfred Molina - Coffee and Cigarettes
• Mark Wahlberg - I ♥ Huckabees
• Anthony Wong - Infernal Affairs

Best Original Screenplay

Lucas Belvaux - The Trilogy (On the Run, An Amazing Couple and After the Life)

• Lars von Trier - Dogville
• Joshua Marston - Maria Full of Grace
• Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright - Shaun of the Dead
• Lingard Jervey, Joe Conway and David Gordon Green - Undertow
• Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
• Lone Scherfig and Anders Thomas Jensen - Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Best Adapted Screenplay

Guy Maddin and George Toles - The Saddest Music in the World

• Krzysztof Kieslowski - Big Animal
• Michael Cunningham - A Home at the End of the World
• José Rivera - The Motorcycle Diaries
• Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor - Sideways
• Yôji Yamada and Yoshitaka Asama - The Twilight Samurai
• Kim Dae-woo, Kim Hyun-jeong, and Lee Je-yong - Untold Scandal

Best Cinematography

Mikhail Krichman - The Return
Baek Dong-hyeon - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

• Eduardo Serra - Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Liao Pen-jung - Goodbye, Dragon Inn
• Zhao Xiaoding - House of Flying Daggers
• Christopher Doyle - Last Life in the Universe

Best Cast

The Trilogy (On the Run, An Amazing Couple and After the Life)

• Coffee and Cigarettes
• Dogville
• Saved!
• Sideways
• Vera Drake

Best Documentary

Tarnation

• The Agronomist
• Bright Leaves
• Control Room
• DiG!
• The Fog of War
• Screaming Men

Best Short Film

• Dwaine's Big Game [1]

Breakthrough Award

• Ellen Page

Body of Work Award

• Lucas Belvaux

Maverick Award

• John O'Brien

External links

• 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards
• 11th Annual Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony

References

1. ^ Chlotrudis Awards Ceremony 2005 (retrieved May 8, 2008)