The 71st New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were announced on 12 December 2005 and presented on 8 January 2006.^[1][2]

• Best Actor:
  • Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain
  • Runners-up: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote and Viggo Mortensen – A History of Violence
• Best Actress:
  • Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
  • Runners-up: Emmanuelle Devos – Kings and Queen (Rois et reine) and Zhang Ziyi – 2046 and Memoirs of a Geisha
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)
  • Runners-up: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Corpse Bride
• Best Cinematography:
  • Christopher Doyle, Lai Yiu Fai, and Kwan Pun Leung – 2046
  • Runners-up: Robert Elswit – Good Night, and Good Luck. and Emmanuel Lubezki – The New World
• Best Director:
  • Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
  • Runners-up: David Cronenberg – A History of Violence and Steven Spielberg – Munich
• Best Film:
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Runners-up: A History of Violence and Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Best First Film:
  • Bennett Miller – Capote
  • Runners-up: Miranda July – Me and You and Everyone We Know and Phil Morrison – Junebug
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • 2046 • China/France/Germany/Hong Kong
  • Runners-up: Caché • France/Austria and Look at Me (Comme une image) • France
• Best Non-Fiction Film (tie):
  • Grizzly Man
  • The White Diamond
  • Runners-up: March of the Penguins and The Aristocrats
• Best Screenplay:
  • Noah Baumbach – The Squid and the Whale
  • Runners-up: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana – Brokeback Mountain and Tony Kushner and Eric Roth – Munich
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • William Hurt – A History of Violence
  • Runners-up: Mathieu Amalric – Munich and Terrence Howard – Crash
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Maria Bello – A History of Violence
  • Runners-up: Catherine Keener – The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, and Capote and Diane Keaton – The Family Stone

• 2005 Awards