2006 Tyler's Choice Television Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up) 

Best Television Series - Drama

• 24 (Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran, Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer & Tony Krantz)
• Grey's Anatomy (Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon & Jim Parriott)
• Lost (J.J. Abrams, Jack Bender, Bryan Burk, Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof)
• The Sopranos (David Chase, Brad Grey, Ilene S. Landress & Terence Winter)
• The West Wing (John Wells, Alex Graves & Christopher Misiano)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlestar Galactica, House, Prison Break, The Shield, Six Feet Under)

Best Television Series - Comedy

• American Dad! (Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman)
• Arrested Development (Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Mitchell Hurwitz & David Nevins)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Gavin Polone, Larry Charles & Robert B. Weide)
• The Office (Greg Daniels, Ricky Gervais, Howard Klein, Stephen Merchant & Ben Silverman)
• Scrubs (Bill Lawrence)
• The Simpsons (Al Jean, James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Ian Maxtone-Graham, Matt Selman, Tim Long & Carolyn Omine)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Comeback, Entourage, Everybody Hates Chris, Weeds)

Best Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Bleak House (Rebecca Eaton, executive producer; Nigel Stafford-Clark, producer)
• Elizabeth I (George Faber, Suzan Harrison, Charles Pattinson & Nigel Williams, executive producers; Barney Reisz, producer)
  
• The Girl in the Café (Paul Abbott & Richard Curtis, executive producers; Hilary Bevan Jones, producer)
• Into the West (Steven Spielberg, executive producer; Larry Rapaport & David A. Rosemont, producers)
• Mrs. Harris (Elizabeth Karlsen, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon & John Wells, executive producers; Chrisann Verges, producer)
  (Honourable Mentions: Flight 93, Sleeper Cell, Thief, Viva Blackpool, Yesterday)

Best Variety Series

• The Colbert Report (Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart & Ben Karlin)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Ben Karlin & Jon Stewart)
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Lorne Michaels & Jeff Ross)
• Late Show with David Letterman (Barbara Gaines, Maria Pope, Rob Burnett & Jude Brennan)
• Saturday Night Live (Lorne Michaels)

Best Variety Special

• 48th Grammy Awards (Walter C. Miller & Ken Ehrlich, executive producers)
• 78th Academy Awards (Louis J. Horvitz, executive producer; Gilbert Cates, producer)
• Bill Maher: I'm Swiss (Bill Maher & Marc Gurvitz, executive producers; Michael Drumm & Andrea Allen, producers)
• George Carlin: Life is Worth Losing (George Carlin & Jerry Hamza, executive producers; Kimber Rickabaugh & Rocco Urbisci, producers)
• Winter Olympic Games XX - Opening Ceremony (Dick Ebersol, executive producer; David Neal & Molly Solomon, producer)

Best Reality Series

• Antiques Roadshow (Marsha Bemko)
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Tom Forman)
• Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Mark Wolper & Star Price)

Best Reality-Competition Series

• The Amazing Race (Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman & Hayma "Screech" Washington)
• American Idol (Nigel Lythgoe, Ken Warwick, Cecile Frot-Coutaz & Simon Fuller)
• Dancing with the Stars (Conrad Green & Richard Hopkins)

Best Animated Program

• American Dad! - "Tears of a Clooney" (Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker & Matt Weitzman, executive producers; Brent Woods, director; Chris McKenna & Matt McKenna, writers)
• Boondocks - "Return of the King" (Aaron McGruder, executive producer/writer; Rodney Barnes, Brian J. Cowan & Carl Jones, executive producers; Kalvin Lee, director)
• Family Guy - "PTV" (Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman & Chris Sheridan, executive producers; Dan Povenmire, director; Alec Sulkin & Wellesley Wild, writers)
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - "Go Goo Go" (Craig McCracken, executive producer/director; Brian A. Miller, executive producer; Lauren Faust, animation director/writer; Robert Alvarez & Eric Pingle, animation directors)
• The Simpsons - "The Seemingly Neverending Story" (Al Jean, James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon, Matt Selman, Tim Long & Carolyn Omine, executive producers; Raymond S. Persi, director; Ian Maxtone-Graham, executive producer/writer)
• South Park - "Trapped in the Closet" (Trey Parker, executive producer/director/writer; Matt Stone & Anne Garefino, executive producers)
  (Honourable Mentions: AVATAR: The Last Airbender - "The Blind Bandit", Camp Lazlo - "Hello Dolly/Over Cooked Beans", Drawn Together - "A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special", King of the Hill - "Hank's on Board")

Best Lead Actor - Drama

• James Gandolfini - The Sopranos (Episode: "The Fleshy Part of the Thing")
• Peter Krause - Six Feet Under (Episode: "Time Flies")
• Christopher Meloni - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Ripped")
• Martin Sheen - The West Wing (Episode: "Tomorrow")
• Kiefer Sutherland - 24 (Episode: "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.")
  (Honourable Mentions: Michael Chiklis - The Shield, Matthew Fox - Lost, Hugh Laurie - House, Denis Leary - Rescue Me, James Spader - Boston Legal)

Best Lead Actor - Comedy

• Steve Carell - The Office (Episode: "The Injury")
• Larry David - Curb Your Enthusiasm (Episode: "The Ski Lift")
• Jason Lee - My Name is Earl (Episode: "Pilot")
• Seth MacFarlane - American Dad! (Episode: "Roger 'n' Me")
• Charlie Sheen - Two and a Half Men (Episode: "The Unfortunate Little Schnauzer")
  (Honourable Mentions: Jason Bateman - Arrested Development, Zach Braff - Scrubs, Ricky Gervais - Extras, Kevin James - The King of Queens, Tony Shalhoub - Monk)

Best Lead Actor - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Andre Braugher - Thief
• Charles Dance - Bleak House
• Ben Kingsley - Mrs. Harris
• Donald Sutherland - Human Trafficking
• Jon Voight - Pope John Paul II
  (Honourable Mentions: Michael Ealy - Sleeper Cell, Bill Nighy - Gideon's Daughter, Bill Nighy - The Girl in the Café, Jeffrey Nordling - Flight 93, Chris Pine - Surrender Dorothy)

Best Lead Actress - Drama

• Kristen Bell - Veronica Mars (Episode: "Normal is the Watchwood")
• Frances Conroy - Six Feet Under (Episode: "Everyone's Waiting")
• Mariska Hargitay - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "911")
• Allison Janney - The West Wing (Episode: "Institutional Memory")
• Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer (Episode: "Fantasy Date")
  (Honourable Mentions: Patricia Arquette - Medium, Geena Davis - Commander in Chief, Edie Falco - The Sopranos, Rachel Griffiths - Six Feet Under, Polly Walker - Rome)

Best Lead Actress - Comedy

• Lauren Graham - Gilmore Girls (Episode: "New and Improved Lorelai")
• Lisa Kudrow - The Comeback (Episode: "Valerie Does Another Classic Leno")
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - The New Adventures of Old Christine (Episode: "Supertramp")
• Debra Messing - Will & Grace (Episode: "The Finale")
• Wendy Schaal - American Dad! (Episode: "Tears of a Clooney")
  (Honourable Mentions: Stockhard Channing - Out of Practice, Marcia Cross - Desperate Housewives, Felicity Huffman - Desperate Housewives, Jane Kaczmarek - Malcolm in the Middle, Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds)

Best Lead Actress - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Gillian Anderson - Bleak House
• Annette Bening - Mrs. Harris
• Judy Davis - A Little Thing Called Murder
• Helen Mirren - Elizabeth I
  
• Mira Sorvino - Human Trafficking
  (Honourable Mentions: Kathy Bates - Ambulance Girl, Vanessa Hudgens - High School Musical, Anna Maxwell Martin - Bleak House, Miranda Richardson - Gideon's Daughter, Alfre Woodard - The Water is Wide)

Best Supporting Actor - Drama

• Alan Alda - The West Wing (Episode: "The Last Hurrah")
• Michael Imperioli - The Sopranos (Episode: "Luxury Lounge")
• Gregory Itzin - 24 (Episode: "Day 5: 3:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m.")
• Oliver Platt - Huff (Episode: "So... What Brings You to Armageddon?")
• William Shatner - Boston Legal (Episode: "Witches of Mass Destruction")
  (Honourable Mentions: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje - Lost, James Callis - Battlestar Galactica, Walton Goggins - The Shield, Forest Whitaker - The Shield, Bradley Whitford - The West Wing)

Best Supporting Actor - Comedy

• Will Arnett - Arrested Development (Episode: "S.O.B.s")
• Jon Cryer - Two and a Half Men (Episode: "Ergo, the Booty Call")
• Scott Grimes - American Dad! (Episode: "Star Trek")
• Sean Hayes - Will & Grace (Episode: "Alive and Schticking")
• Jeremy Piven - Entourage (Episode: "The Bat Mitzvah")
  (Honourable Mentions: Bryan Cranston - Malcolm in the Middle, Donald Faison - Scrubs, Neil Patrick Harris - How I Met Your Mother, John C. McGinley - Scrubs, Ethan Suplee - My Name is Earl)

Best Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Robert Carlyle - Human Trafficking
• Clifton Collins, Jr. - Thief
• Hugh Dancy - Elizabeth I
• Jeremy Irons - Elizabeth I
• David Tennant - Viva Blackpool
  (Honourable Mentions: Phil Davis - Bleak House, Zac Efron - High School Musical, Oded Fehr - Sleeper Cell, Toby Jones - Elizabeth I, Denis Lawson - Bleak House)

Best Supporting Actress - Drama

• Candice Bergen - Boston Legal (Episode: "The Ass Fat Jungle")
• Blythe Danner - Huff (Episode: "So... What Brings You to Armageddon?")
• Sandra Oh - Grey's Anatomy (Episode: "Deny, Deny, Deny")
• Jean Smart - 24 (Episode: "Day 5: 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.")
• Chandra Wilson - Grey's Anatomy (Episode: "As We know It")
  (Honourable Mentions: Lauren Ambrose - Six Feet Under, Katherine Heigl - Grey's Anatomy, Tricia Helfer - Battlestar Galactica, Yunjin Kim - Lost, C.C.H. Pounder - The Shield)

Best Supporting Actress - Comedy

• Ashley Jensen - Extras (Episode: "Kate Winslet")
• Rachael MacFarlane - American Dad! (Episode: "Stannie Get Your Gun")
  
• Megan Mullally - Will & Grace (Episode: "The Finale")
• Jaime Pressly - My Name is Earl (Episode: "Joy's Wedding")
• Alfre Woodard - Desperate Housewives (Episode: "You'll Never Get Away from Me")
  (Honourable Mentions: Tichina Arnold - Everybody Hates Chris, Sarah Chalke - Scrubs, Cheryl Hines - Curb Your Enthusiasm, Elizabeth Perkins - Weeds, Jessica Walter - Arrested Development)

Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Emily Blunt - Gideon's Daughter
• Cloris Leachman - Mrs. Harris
• Kelly Macdonald - The Girl in the Café
• Carey Mulligan - Bleak House
• Mae Whitman - Thief
  (Honourable Mentions: Ellen Burstyn - Mrs. Harris, Pauline Collins - Bleak House, Shirley Jones - Hidden Places, Lainie Kazan - The Engagement Ring, Melissa Sagemiller - Sleeper Cell)

Best Guest Actor - Drama

• Christian Clemenson - Boston Legal (Episode: "Legal Deficits")
• Kyle Chandler - Grey's Anatomy (Episode: "As We Know It")
• Henry Ian Cusick - Lost (Episode: "Live Together, Die Alone")
• Michael J. Fox - Boston Legal (Episode: "The Cancer Man Can")
• James Woods - ER (Episode: "Body and Soul")
  (Honourable Mentions: Robert Funero - The Sopranos, Rob Lowe - The West Wing, Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Grey's Anatomy, Oliver Platt - The West Wing)

Best Guest Actor - Comedy

• Alec Baldwin - Will & Grace (Episode: "Streams Like Old Times")
• Martin Sheen - Two and a Half Men (Episode: "Sleep Tight, Puddin' Pop")
• Patrick Stewart - American Dad! (Episode: "Bullocks to Stan")
• Patrick Stewart - Extras (Episode: "Patrick Stewart")
• Ben Stiller - Extras (Episode: "Ben Stiller")
  (Honourable Mentions: Jason Bateman - Scrubs, Zach Braff - Arrested Development, Bobby Cannavale - Will & Grace, Malcolm McDowell - Entourage)

Best Guest Actress - Drama

• Shorheh Aghdashloo - ER (Episode: "Lost in America")
• Patricia Clarkson - Six Feet Under (Episode: "The Rainbow of Her Reasons")
• Swoosie Kurtz - Huff (Episode: "Which Lip is the Cervical Lip?")
• Cynthia Nixon - House (Episode: "Deception")
• Christina Ricci - Grey's Anatomy (Episode: "As We Know It")
  (Honourable Mentions: Kate Burton - Grey's Anatomy, Joanna Cassidy - Six Feet Under, Anjelica Huston - Huff, Sharon Stone - Huff, Gina Torres - The Shield)

Best Guest Actress - Comedy

• Blythe Danner - Will & Grace (Episode: "A Little Christmas Queer")
• Shirley Knight - Desperate Housewives (Episode: "Next")
• Cloris Leachman - Malcolm in the Middle (Episode: "Bride of Ida")
• Charlize Theron - Arrested Development (Episode: "The Ocean Walker")
• Kate Winslet - Extras (Episode: "Kate Winslet")
  (Honourable Mentions: Beverly D'Angelo - Entourage, Susie Essman - Curb Your Enthusiasm, Kathryn Joosten - Desperate Housewives, Laurie Metcalf - Monk, Debbie Reynolds - Will & Grace)

Best Direction - Drama

• Alan Ball - Six Feet Under (Episode: "Everyone's Waiting")
• Jack Bender - Lost (Episode: "Live Together, Die Alone")
• Jon Cassar - 24 (Episode: "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.")
• Rodrigo García - Big Love (Episode: "Pilot")
• Mimi Leder - The West Wing (Episode: "Election Day: Part I")
• Tim Van Patten - The Sopranos (Episode: "Members Only")
  (Honourable Mentions: David Nutter - The Sopranos, Michael Rymer - Battlestar Galactica, Alan Taylor - Rome, Brad Turner - 24)

Best Direction - Comedy

• Marc Buckland - My Name is Earl (Episode: "Pilot")
• Julian Farino - Entourage (Episode: "The Sundance Kids")
• Michael Patrick King - The Comeback (Episode: "Valerie Does Another Classic Leno")
• Robert B. Weide - Curb Your Enthusiasm (Episode: "The Christ Nail")
• Brent Woods - American Dad! (Episode: "Tears of a Clooney")
  (Honourable Mentions: Dan Attias - Entourage, Zach Braff - Scrubs, Larry Charles - Curb Your Enthusiasm, John Fortenberry - Arrested Development, Mike Kim - American Dad!)

Best Direction - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Justin Chadwick - Bleak House
• Tom Hooper - Elizabeth I
• Phyllis Nagy - Mrs. Harris
• Kenny Ortega - High School Musical
• David Yates - The Girl in the Café
  (Honourable Mentions: John David Coles - Thief, Clark Johnson - Sleeper Cell, Peter Markle - Flight 93, Stephen Poliakoff - Gideon's Daughter, Timothy Van Patten - Into the West)

Best Writing - Drama

• Alan Ball - Six Feet Under (Episode: "Everyone's Waiting")
• Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof - Lost (Episode: "The 23rd Psalm")
• Shonda Rhimes - Grey's Anatomy (Episode: "It's the End of the World")
• John Wells - The West Wing (Episode: "Tomorrow")
• Terence Winter - The Sopranos (Episode: "Members Only")
  (Honourable Mentions: Peter Blake - House, David Chase - The Sopranos, Adam E. Fierro & Shawn Ryan - The Shield, Rob Thomas - Veronica Mars, Krista Vernoff - Grey's Anatomy)

Best Writing - Comedy

• Greg Garcia - My Name is Earl (Episode: "Pilot")
• Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant - Extras (Episode: "Kate Winslet") 
• Ian Maxtone-Graham - The Simpsons (Episode: "The Seemingly Neverending Story")
• Chris & Matt McKenna - American Dad! (Episode: "Tears of a Clooney")
• Chuck Tatham, Jim Vallely, Richard Day & Mitchell Hurwitz - Arrested Development (Episode: "Development Arrested")
  (Honourable Mentions: Steve Carell - The Office, Doug Ellin - Entourage, David Kohan & Max Mutchnick - Will & Grace, Chris Rock & Ali LeRoi - Everybody Hates Chris, Michael Schur - The Office)

Best Writing - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Peter Barsocchini - High School Musical
• Richard Curtis - The Girl in the Café
• Andrew Davies - Bleak House
• Phyllis Nagy - Mrs. Harris
• Nigel Williams - Elizabeth I
  (Honourable Mentions: Janet Brownell - Once Upon a Mattress, William Mastrosimone - Into the West, Stephen Poliakoff - Gideon's Daughter, Nevin Schreiner - Flight 93, Cyrus Voris & Ethan Reiff - Sleeper Cell)

Best Casting - Drama

• Boston Legal (Ken Miller & Nikki Valko)
• Grey's Anatomy (John Brace & Linda Lowy)
• House (Stephanie Laffin & Amy Lippens)
• Lost (Veronica Collins Rooney, Mandy Sherman & April Webster)
• Six Feet Under (Libby Goldstein & Junie Lowry-Johnson)
  

Best Casting - Comedy

• American Dad! (Linda Lamontagne)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (Allison Jones)
• Desperate Housewives (Scott Genkinger & Junie Lowry-Johnson)
• Entourage (Sheila Jaffe, Meredith Tucker & Georgianne Walken)
• Weeds (Amy McIntyre Britt & Anya Coloff)

Best Casting - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Elizabeth I (Doreen Jones)
• The Girl in the Café (Fiona Weir)
• High School Musical (Natalie Hart & Jason LaPadura)
• Into the West (Rene Haynes, Meg Liberman & Cami Patton)
• Mrs. Harris (Libby Goldstein & Junie Lowry-Johnson)

Best Cinematography - Series

• 24 - Rodney Charters (Episode: "Day 5: 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.")
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigaton - Michael Slovis (Episode: "Time of Your Death")
• Lost - Michael Bonvillan (Episode: "Man of Science, Man of Faith")
• Six Feet Under - Rob Sweeney (Episode: "Everyone's Waiting")
• The Sopranos - Phil Abraham (Episode: "Members Only")

Best Cinematography - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Bleak House (Kieran McGuigan)
• Elizabeth I (Larry Smith)
• Into the West (Alan Caso)
• Mrs. Harris (Steven Poster)
• Sleeper Cell (Robert Primes)

Best Costume Design - Series

• Battlestar Galactica - Glenne Campbell (Episode: "Lay Your Burdens Down: Part II")
• Desperate Housewives - Catherine Adair (Episode: "Next")
• Rome - April Ferry (Episode: "Triumph")
• Six Feet Under - Jill Ohanneson (Episode: "Everyone's Waiting")
• The Sopranos - Juliet Polsca (Episode: "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request...")

Best Costume Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Bleak House (Andrea Galer)
• Elizabeth I (Mike O'Neill)
• Into the West (Michael T. Boyd)
• Mrs. Harris (Julie Weiss)
  
• Once Upon a Mattress (Bob Mackie)

Best Editing - Series

• 24 - David Latham (Episode: "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.")
• American Dad! - Bobby Gibis (Episode: "Tears of a Clooney")
• Curb Your Enthusiasm - Steven Rasch (Episode: "The Ski Lift")
• Lost - Sue Blainey, Sarah Boyd & Stephen Semel (Episode: "Live Togehter, Die Alone")
• Weeds - David Helfand (Episode: "Good Shit Lollipop")
  (Honourable Mentions: 24 - Scott Powell, Arrested Development - Stuart Bass, Boston Legal - Philip Neel, The Office - Dean Holland, Will & Grace - Peter Chakos)

Best Editing - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Bleak House (Paul Knight)
• Elizabeth I (Beverly Mills)
  
• Elizabeth I (Melanie Oliver)
• Flight 93 (Scott Boyd)
• The Girl in the Café (Mark Day)

Best Ensemble - Drama

• 24 (Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kim Raver, Carlos Bernard, Gregory Itzin, James Morrison, Roger Cross, Louis Lombardi, Sean Astin & Jean Smart, et. al.)
• Battlestar Galactica (Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Michael Hogan, Aaron Douglas, Sam Witwer & Katee Sackhoff, et. al.)
• Lost (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Rodriguez & Terry O'Quinn, et. al.)
• The Sopranos (James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco, Michael Imperioli, Dominic Chianese, Steven Van Zandt, Tony Sirico, Robert Iler, Steve Schirripa & Aida Turturro, et. al.)
• The West Wing (Alan Alda, Stockhard Channing, Kristin Chenoweth, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Jimmy Smits & Martin Sheen)

Best Ensemble - Comedy

• American Dad! (Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane & Dee Bradley Baker, et. al.)
• Arrested Development (Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor & Jessica Walter, et. al.)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm (Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Cheryl Hines, Susie Essman, Richard Lewis, Bob Einstein, Shelley Berman & Ted Danson, et. al.)
• The Office (Steve Carell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, B.J. Novak, Jenna Fischer, Melora Hardin, Brian Baumgartner, Angela Kinsey, Craig Robinson & Mindy Kaling, et. al.)
• The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor & Tress MacNeille, et. al.)

Best Main Title Design

• 78th Academy Awards (Renato Grgic, Kristijan Petrovic, Alen Petkovic & Jon Teschner)
• Big Love (Kirk Baxter, Larry Ewing, Maurice Marable & Angus Wall)
• Prison Break (Dustin Frost, Alex Freeman & David Midgen)
• Rome (Kirk Balden, Andrew Hall, Angus Wall & Brad Waskewich)
  
• Weeds (Robert Bradley & Thomas Cobb)

Best Main Title Theme Music

• Big Love (Brian Wilson & Tony Asher)
• Masters of Horror (Edward Shearmur)
• Prison Break (Ramin Djawadi)
• Rome (Jeff Beal)
• Weeds (Malvina Reynolds)

Best Makeup - Series

• Black. White. - Brian Sipe, Keith VanderLaan & Will Huff (Episode: "Episode 1")
• Grey's Anatomy - Norman T. Leavitt, Thomas R. Burman & Bari Dreiband-Burman (Episode: "Yesterday")
• Nip/Tuck - Eryn Krueger Mekash, Stephanie A. Fowler & Bari Dreiband-Burman (Episode: "Cherry Peck")
• Rome - Maurizio Silvi, Federico Laurenti & Laura Tonello (Episode: "Caesarion")
• Six Feet Under - Matthew W. Mungle, Michelle Vittone & John E. Jackson (Episode: "Everyone's Waiting")

Best Makeup - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Bleak House (Daniel Phillips)
• Elizabeth I (Josh Weston & Gemma Richards)
• Into the West (Gail Kennedy & Matthew W. Mungle)
  
• Mrs. Harris (Tina Roesler Irwin, Elisa Marsh & Michele Baylis)
• The Ten Commandments (Michele Baylis, Angie Mudge & Jennifer Harty)

Best Music Composition - Series

• 24 - Sean Callery (Episode: "Day 5: 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.")
• American Dad! - Walter Murphy (Episode: "Tears of a Clooney")
• Rome - Jeff Beal (Episode: "Triumph")
• Stargate Atlantis - Joel Goldsmith (Episode: "Grace Under Pressure")
• Supernatural - Christopher Lennertz (Episode: "Pilot")

Best Music Composition - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Bleak House (John Lunn)
• Elizabeth I (Robert Lane)
• Into the West (Geoff Zanelli)
• Sleeper Cell (Paul Haslinger)
• Thief (Richard Marvin)

Best Original Music and Lyrics

• American Dad! - "Worst Place in the World" (Ron Jones, Carter Bays & Craig Thomas)
• Gideon's Daughter - "Natasha's Song" (Stephen Poliakoff & Adrian Johnston)
• High School Musical - "Breaking Free" (Jamie Houston)
• MADtv - "A Wonderfully Normal Day" (Greg O'Connor & Jim Wise)
• The Simpsons - "Lady Blue" (Ricky Gervais)

Best Production Design - Series

• Desperate Housewives - Thomas A. Walsh & Erica Rogalla (Episode: "Next")
• House - Derek R. Hill & Danielle Berman (Episode: "Acceptance")
• How I Met Your Mother - Steve Olson & Richard C. Walker (Episode: "Pilot")
• Rome - Joseph Bennett & Christina Onori (Episode: "The Stolen Eagle")
• Six Feet Under - Suzuki Ingerslev & Rusty Lipscomb (Episode: "Everyone's Waiting")

Best Production Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Bleak House (Simon Elliott & Andrea Galer)
• Elizabeth I (Eve Stewart & Sarah Whittle)
• The Girl in the Café (Candida Otton & Jacky Levy)
• Into the West (Marek Dobrowolski & Paul Healy)
• Mrs. Harris (Alison Dominitz & Barbara Munch)

Best Sound Design - Series

• 24 - William Dotson, Kenneth Kobett & Michael Olman (Episode: "Day 5: 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.")
• American Dad! - Bob Newlan, Shawn Ian Kerkhoff & Jim Fitzpatrick (Episode: "Tears of a Clooney")
• Battlestar Galactica - Jack Levy, Kenneth Kobett & Michael Olman (Episode: "Scattered")
• Lost - David Barbee, Marc Mayer, Frank Morrone & Scott Weber (Episode: "Live Together, Die Alone")
• The West Wing - Thomas A. Harris, Walter Newman & Ed Greene (Episode: "The Debate")

Best Sound Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Elizabeth I (Becki Ponting & Paul Hamblin)
• Flight 93 (Harry E. Snodgrass, Mark Linden & Tara Paul)
• Into the West (G. Michael Graham, Rick Alexander & Richard D. Rogers)
• Sleeper Cell (Mark Cookson, Joe Earle & Elmo Ponsdomenech)
• The Ten Commandments (Sean Byrne, Terry O'Bright & Keith Rogers)

Best Visual Effects

• Battlestar Galactica - Gary Hutzel, Michael Gibson, Steve Kullback & Lane Jolly (Episode: "Resurrection Ship")
• Into the West - Craig Waiss, Tim McHugh, Chris Tezber & Christopher DeCristo (Episode: "Hell on Wheels")
• Lost - Kevin Blank, Mitch Suskin, Jay Worth & Archie Ahuna (Episode: "Live Together, Die Alone")
• Perfect Disaster - Gareth Edwards & Bob Trevino (Episode: "Super Tornado")
• Rome - James Madigan, Barrie Hemsley, Clare Herbert & Anne Panton (Episode: "The Stolen Eagle")

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Dan Castellaneta - The Simpsons for voicing Groundskeeper Willie (and others) in "My Fair Laddy"
• Keith Ferguson - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for voicing Bloo in "Squeeze the Day"
• Kelsey Grammer - The Simpsons for voicing Sideshow Bob in "The Italian Bob"
• Julie Kavner - The Simpsons for voicing Marge Simpson in "Regarding Margie"
• Wendy Schaal - American Dad! for voicing Francine Smith in "Tears of a Clooney"

2006 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

• Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin & Jon Kilik)
• The Departed (Graham King)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg & Robert Lorenz)
• Little Miss Sunshine (David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf & Marc Turtletaub)
• The Queen (Andy Harries, Christine Langan & Tracey Seaward)
  (Honourable Mentions: Borat, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93)

Best Director

• Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
• Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth
• Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
• Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
• Martin Scorsese - The Departed
  (Honourable Mentions: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine, Stephen Frears - The Queen, Paul Greengrass - United 93, Gore Verbinski - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Edward Zwick - Blood Diamond)

Best Lead Actor

• Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
• Peter O'Toole - Venus
• Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
• Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
  (Honourable Mentions: Daniel Craig - Casino Royale, Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Will Ferrell - Stranger Than Fiction, Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson, Ben Stiller - Night at the Museum)

Best Lead Actress

• Penélope Cruz - Volver
• Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
• Helen Mirren - The Queen
• Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
• Kate Winslet - Little Miss Sunshine
  (Honourable Mentions: Annette Bening - Running with Scissors, Beyoncé - Dreamgirls, Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby, Gretchen Mol - The Notorious Bettie Page, Renée Zellweger - Miss Potter)

Best Supporting Actor

• Laurence Fishburne - Akeelah and the Bee
• Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
• Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
• Jack Nicholson - The Departed
• Robin Williams - Night at the Museum
  (Honourable Mentions: Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland, Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine, Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children, Bill Nighy - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Mark Wahlberg - The Departed) 

Best Supporting Actress

• Adriana Barraza - Babel
  
• Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
• Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
• Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
• Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
  (Honourable Mentions: Angela Bassett - Akeelah and the Bee, Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada, Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson, Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration, Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction)

Best Original Screenplay

• Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (Paul Haggis & Iris Yamashita)
• Little Miss Sunshine (Michael Arndt)
• Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
• The Queen (Peter Morgan)
  (Honourable Mentions: Bobby, The Good Shepherd, Happy Feet, Stranger Than Fiction, United 93)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer & Todd Phillips; based on the character Borat Sagdiyev from the television series Da Ali G Show created by Sacha Baron Cohen)
• The Departed (William Monahan; based on the film Internal Affairs written by Felix Chong & Alan Mak)
• Little Children (Todd Field & Tom Perrotta; based on the novel by Tom Perrotta)
• Notes on a Scandal (Patrick Marber; based on the novel by Zoe Heller)
• Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman; based on the novel by Christopher Buckley)
  (Honourable Mentions: Children of Men, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Night at the Museum, The Prestige)

Best Cast Ensemble

• The Departed [Ellen Lewis, casting director] (Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, James Badge Dale & Alec Baldwin, et. al.)
• Dreamgirls [Jay Binder & Debra Zane, casting directors] (Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Anika Noni Rose, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal & Danny Glover, et. al.)
• Happy Feet [Kristy Carlson, casting director] (Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Carlos Alazraqui, Lombardo Boyar, Anthony LaPaglia & Steve Irwin, et. al.)
• Little Miss Sunshine [Justine Arteta & Kim Davis-Wagner, casting directors] (Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Bryan Cranston, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Dean Norris & Abigail Breslin, et. al.)
• Night at the Museum [Ilene Starger, casting director] (Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dick Van Dyke, Carla Gugino, Mickey Rourke, Bill Cobbs, Steve Coogan, Jake Cherry & Owen Wilson, et. al.)
  (Honourable Mentions: Babel, Bobby, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, A Prairie Home Companion, The Queen)

Best Young Actor (18 or Under)

• Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth
• Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
• Jake Cherry - Night at the Museum
• Keke Palmer - Akeelah and the Bee
• Jaden Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
  (Honourable Mentions: Joseph Cross - Running with Scissors, Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson, Dakota Fanning - Charlotte's Web, Freddie Highmore - A Good Year, Tristen Lake Leabu - Superman Returns)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Apocalypto [United States] (Mel Gibson)
• Letters from Iwo Jima [Japan] (Clint Eastwood)
• The Lives of Others [Germany] (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
• Pan's Labyrinth [Mexico] (Guillermo del Toro)
  
• Volver [Spain] (Pedro Almodóvar)
  (Honourable Mentions: After the Wedding, Black Book, Days of Glory, L'Enfant, Water)

Best Documentary Feature

• Deliver Us from Evil (Amy J. Berg, Matthew Cooke & Frank Donner)
• An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Bender & Scott Z. Burns)
• Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady)
• This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick & Eddie Schmidt)
• Wordplay (Patrick Creadon, Michael Creadon & Christine O'Malley)
  (Honourable Mentions: Iraq in Fragments, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Shut Up & Sing, Who Killed the Electric Car?)

Best Original Score

• Babel (Gustavo Santaolalla)
• The Da Vinci Code (Hans Zimmer)
• Notes on a Scandal (Philip Glass)
• Pan's Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete)
• The Queen (Alexandre Desplat)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Departed (Howard Shore), The Good German (Thomas Newman), Happy Feet (John Powell), The Illusionist (Philip Glass), The Painted Veil (Alexandre Desplat))

Best Original Song

• "I Need to Wake Up" - An Inconvenient Truth (Melissa Etheridge)
• "Listen" - Dreamgirls (Scott Cutler, Henry Krieger & Anne Preven)
• "Our Town" - Cars (Randy Newman)
• "Patience" - Dreamgirls (Henry Krieger & Willie Reale)
• "Upside Down" - Curious George (Jack Johnson)
  (Honourable Mentions: "A Father's Way" - The Pursuit of Happyness, "Love You I Do" - Dreamgirls, "Never Gonna Break My Faith" - Bobby, "Ordinary Miracle" - Charlotte's Web, "You Know My Name" - Casino Royale)

Best Sound Editing

• Blood Diamond (Lon Bender)
  
• Cars (Tom Myers & Michael Silvers)
• Flags of Our Fathers (Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman)
• Letters from Iwo Jima (Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Christopher Boyes & George Watters II)
  (Honourable Mentions: Apocalypto, Babel, Casino Royale, Pan's Labyrinth, X-Men: The Last Stand)

Best Sound Mixing

• Apocalypto (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell & Fernando Cámara)
• Blood Diamond (Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer & Ivan Sharrock)
• Dreamgirls (Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer & Willie D. Burton)
• Flags of Our Fathers (John T. Reitz, David E. Campbell, Gregg Rudloff & Walt Martin)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes & Lee Orloff)
  (Honourable Mentions: Babel, Casino Royale, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93)

Best Animated Feature

• Cars (John Lasseter & Darla K. Anderson)
• Happy Feet (George Miller, Bill Miller & Doug Mitchell)
• Ice Age: The Meltdown (Carlos Saldanha & Lori Forte)
• Monster House (Gil Kenan, Jack Rapke & Steve Starkey)
• Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick & Bonnie Arnold)
  (Honourable Mentions: Everyone's Hero, Flushed Away, Open Season, Paprika, A Scanner Darkly)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Hugh Jackman - Flushed Away for voicing Roddy St. James
• Ian McKellen - Flushed Away for voicing The Toad
• Paul Newman - Cars for voicing Doc Hudson
• Wanda Sykes - Over the Hedge for voicing Stella
• Robin Williams - Happy Feet for voicing Lovelace
  (Honourable Mentions: Billy Connolly - Open Season, Maggie Gyllenhaal - Monster House, Mitchel Musso - Monster House, Ray Romano - Ice Age: The Meltdown, Bruce Willis - Over the Hedge)

Best Cinematography

• Apocalypto (Dean Semler)
• The Black Dahlia (Vilmos Zsigmond)
• Children of Men (Emmanuel Lubezki)
• Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Navarro)
• The Prestige (Wally Pfister)
  (Honourable Mentions: Babel, Curse of the Golden Flower, The Fountain, The Illusionist, Letters from Iwo Jima)

Best Film Editing

• Babel (Douglas Crise & Stephen Mirrione)
• Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón & Alex Rodríguez)
• The Departed (Thelma Schoonmaker)
• Dreamgirls (Virginia Katz)
• United 93 (Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson & Christopher Rouse)
  (Honourable Mentions: Blood Diamond, Casino Royale, Flags of Our Fathers, Pan's Labyrinth, The Queen)

Best Art Direction

• Dreamgirls (John Myhre & Nancy Haigh)
• Night at the Museum (Claude Paré & Lin Macdonald)
• Pan's Labyrinth (Eugenio Caballero & Pilar Revuelta)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Rick Heinrichs & Cheryl Carasik)
• The Prestige (Nathan Crowley & Julie Ochipinti)
  (Honourable Mentions: Babel, Flags of Our Fathers, The Good Shepherd, Marie Antoinette, V for Vendetta)

Best Costume Design

• Curse of the Golden Flower (Yee Chung Man)
• The Devil Wears Prada (Patricia Field)
• Dreamgirls (Sharen Davis)
• Marie Antoinette (Milena Canonero)
• The Queen (Consolata Boyle)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Black Dahlia, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Prestige)

Best Makeup

• Apocalypto (Aldo Signoretti & Vittorio Sodano)
• Pan's Labyrinth (David Martí & Montse Ribé)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Ve Neill & Martin Samuel)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Devil Wears Prada, Marie Antoinette, The Prestige, The Queen, X-Men: The Last Stand)

Best Visual Effects

• Casino Royale (Steven Begg, Chris Corbould, John Paul Docherty & Angela Barson)
• Night at the Museum (Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Dan DeLeeuw & Bruce Woloshyn)
• Pan's Labyrinth (Everett Burrell, Edward Irastorza, Brad Achorn & Alex Friderici)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson & Allen Hall)
• Superman Returns (Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover & Jon Thum)
  (Honourable Mentions: Charlotte's Web, Eragon, Mission Impossible III, Poseidon, X-Men: The Last Stand)

2005 Tyler's Choice Video Game Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Game of the Year

• Call of Duty 2 (Ken Murphy)
• God of War (Shannon Studstill)
• Guitar Hero (Daniel Sussman)
• Nintendogs (Hideki Konno & Shigeru Miyamoto)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Kenji Kaido)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing: Wild World, Civilization IV, The Movies, Psychonauts, Resident Evil 4)

Best Action/Adventure Game

• Call of Duty 2 (Jason West)
• God of War (David Jaffe)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong (Michel Ancel)
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Jean-Christophe Guyot)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Fumito Ueda)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Indigo Prophecy, Psychonauts, Resident Evil 4, Ultimate Spider-Man)

Best Game Design

• God of War (David Jaffe)
• Guitar Hero (Rob Kay)
• The Movies (Adrian Moore)
• Nintendogs (Junji Morii)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Fumito Ueda)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing: Wild World, Peter Jackson's King Kong, Psychonauts, Resident Evil 4, We Love Katamari)

Best Family/Casual Game

• Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (Yukihiro Yamazaki)
• Guitar Hero (Greg LoPiccolo)
• Mario Party 7 (Shuichiro Nishiya)
• Nintendogs (Kiyoshi Mizuki)
• Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (Grady Hunt)
• We Love Katamari (Keita Takahashi)
  (Honourable Mentions: Animal Crossing: Wild World, Kirby Canvas Curse, LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, WarioWare: Touched!)

Best Sport/Racing Game

• Burnout Revenge (Fiona Sperry & Alex Ward)
• Mario Kart DS (Makoto Wada & Yasuyuki Oyagi)
• NBA 2K6 (Jeffrey J. Thomas) 
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Kimihiro Taniyama)
• SSX on Tour (Steve Anthony)
• Super Mario Strikers (Mike Inglehart)
  (Honourable Mentions: FIFA 06, Forza Motorsport, Project Gotham Racing 3, Tony Hawk's American Wasteland)

Best Technical Innovation

• God of War (Tim Moss)
• Guitar Hero (Philip Winston)
• The Movies (James Brown, Matthew Chilton, Jonathan Askew & Cliff Harris)
• Nintendogs (Yoshitaka Aijoka, Yasushi Ebisawa, Soichi Nakajima & Yuzuru Ogawa)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Jinji Horagai)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, Call of Duty 2, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, WarioWare: Touched!, We Love Katamari)

Best Multiplayer

• Animal Crossing: Wild World
• Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Måns Vestin)
• Guild Wars
• Guitar Hero
• Super Mario Strikers

Best Strategy/Simulation Game

• Animal Crossing: Wild World (Hisashi Nogami)
• Black & White 2 (Jonty Barnes)
• Civilization IV (Barry Caudill & Sid Meier)
• The Movies (Peter Molyneux)
• Silent Hunter III (Sébastien Delen)
  (Honourable Mentions: Age of Empires III, Armored Core: Nine Breaker, Lock On: Modern Air Combat, Nintendogs, Sid Meier's Pirates)

Best Use of Audio

• Call of Duty 2 (Mark Ganus & Mark Curry)
• God of War (Jonathan Hawkins, Jason McDonald, David Murrant & Brad Aldredge)
• Guitar Hero (Kasson Crooker, Izzy Maxwell, Ross Popoff & Eric Brosius)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong (Yoan Fanise, Olivier Ranquet, Sam Hofstedt & Reed Ruddy)
• Resident Evil 4 (Yoshihiko Wada & Yoshito Kato)
  (Honourable Mentions: Electroplankton, F.E.A.R., Indigo Prophecy, Shadow of the Colossus, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory)

Best Music

• Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Koichi Sugiyama)
• God of War (Gerald K. Marino, Michael Reagan, Ron Fish, Winifred Phillips, Winnie Waldron, Cris Velasco & Marcello DeFrancisi)
• Jade Empire (Jack Wall)
• The Movies (Daniel Pemberton)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Kow Otani)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty 2 (Graeme Revell), Gun (Christopher Lennertz), Kameo: Elements of Power (Steve Burke), Rise of the Kasai (Jack Wall, Rod Abernethy, Jason Graves, Lars Anderson & Michael Reagan), We Love Katamari (Yuu Miyake, Yuri Misumi, Hiroshi Okubo, Masashi Sugiyama, Katsuro Tajima, Akitaka Toyama & Yoshihito Yano))

Best Handheld Game

• Burnout Revenge (Claude Verstraeten) 
• Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (Leslie Benzies)
• The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Hidemaro Fujibayashi)
• Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (Hiroyuki Kubota)
• Nintendogs (Kiyoshi Mizuki)
  (Honourable Mentions: Ancient Empires II, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Lumines, Mario Kart DS, Meteos) 

Best Fighting Game

• Fight Night Round 2 (Rondee Price & Keith J. Morton)
• Soul Calibur III (Jin Okubo, Shinobu Nimura & Taisuke Aihara)
• Tekken 5 (Masahiro Kimoto & Katsuhiro Harada)
  (Honourable Mentions: Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower, Genji: Dawn of the Samurai, Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble, WWE Smackdown! vs. Raw 2006)

Best Art Direction

• God of War (Terry Smith & Steve Caterson)
• Jade Empire (Matthew M. Goldman)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong (Florent Sacré)
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Olivier Leonardi)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita & Kazuhiro Numata)
  (Honourable Mentions: Call of Duty 2, Killer 7, Psychonauts, Ultimate Spider-Man, We Love Katamari)

Best Animation

• God of War (Cory Barlog, Kwon Min, Paul Lee & Mehdi Yssef)
• Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (Wade Konowalchuk, Yannick Bergeron, Steeve Oullet & Faoud Jeniani)
• Psychonauts (Sandra B. Christensen, Eric P. Ingerson & David Russell)
• Rise of the Kasai (Erik Medina, David Oelkers, Bang Won Lee & Floyd Bishop Jr.)
• Shadow of the Colossus (Atsuko Fukuyama, Masanobu Tanaka, Daisuke Uchikawa & Rory Little)
  (Honourable Mentions: Burnout Revenge, Devil May Cry 3, Nintendogs, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Resident Evil 4)

Best Story/Writing

• Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood (Mike Neumann)
• Call of Duty 2: Big Red One (Aaron Ginsburg & Wade McIntyre)
• God of War (Marianne Krawczyk, Alexander Stein, David Jaffe & Keith Fay)
• Peter Jackson's King Kong (Jacques Exertier)
• Psychonauts (Tim Schafer & Erik Wolpaw)
  (Honourable Mentions: Gun, Indigo Prophecy, Jade Empire, Resident Evil 4, Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves)

Best Voice Acting

• John Cleese - Jade Empire for voicing Sir Roderick
• Laurence Fishburne - True Crime: New York City for voicing Isaiah Reed
• Richard Horvitz - Psychonauts for voicing Razputin "Raz" Aquato
• Kris Kristofferson - Gun for voicing Ned White
• Christopher Walken - True Crime: New York City for voicing Gabriel Whiting
  (Honourable Mentions: Jack Black - Peter Jackson's King Kong, T.C. Carson - God of War, Mariska Hargitay - True Crime: New York City, Thomas Jane - Gun, Sharon Mann - Indigo Prophecy)

2005 Tyler's Choice Music Awards

(Boldface = winner, Italics = runner-up)

Best Song by a Male Vocalist

• "From the Bottom of My Heart" - Stevie Wonder (Stevie Wonder)
• "Gold Digger" - Kanye West (Kanye West & Jon Brion)
• "Lonely No More" - Rob Thomas (Matt Serletic)
• "Ordinary People" - John Legend (John Legend & Will.i.am)
• "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" - Jack Johnson (Mario Caldato, Jr.)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Arms of a Woman" - Amos Lee, "Fine Line" - Paul McCartney, "Home" - Michael Bublé, "Mockingbird" - Eminem, "Trapped in the Closet" - R. Kelly)

Best Song by a Female Vocalist

• "Because of You" - Kelly Clarkson (David Hodges & Ben Moody)
• "Good is Good" - Sheryl Crow (Sheryl Crow & John Shanks)
• "Hollaback Girl" - Gwen Stefani (The Neptunes)
• "Since U Been Gone" - Kelly Clarkson (Max Martin & Dr. Luke)
• "We Belong Together" - Mariah Carey (Mariah Carey, Jermaine Dupri & Manuel Seal)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Breathe (2 AM)" - Anna Nalick, "Karma" - Alicia Keys, "Sleeps with Butterflies" - Tori Amos, "Spoiled" - Joss Stone, "Unbreakable" - Alicia Keys)

Best Song by a Duo, Group or Band

• "Bless the Broken Road" - Rascal Flatts (Mark Bright, Rascal Flatts & Marty Williams)
• "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day (Rob Cavallo & Green Day)
• "Feel Good, Inc." - Gorillaz, ft. De La Soul (Gorillaz, Danger Mouse & Jason Cox)
• "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers (The Killers)
• "Photograph" - Nickelback (Joey Moi)
• "A Song for You" - Herbie Hancock, ft. Christina Aguilera (Herbie Hancock, Alan Mintz & Bob Brockmann)
  (Honourable Mentions: "American Baby" - Dave Matthews Band, "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" - U2, "Speed of Sound" - Coldplay, "You & Me" - Lifehouse)

Best Album

• Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson (Kara DioGuardi, Max Martin, Dr. Luke & John Shanks)
• Chaos and Creation in the Backyard - Paul McCartney (Nigel Godrich)
• How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb - U2 (Steve Lillywhite, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Jacknife Lee & Chris Thomas)
• Love.Angel.Music.Baby - Gwen Stefani (André 3000, The Neptunes, Dallas Austin, Tony Kanal & Linda Perry)
• A Time 2 Love - Stevie Wonder (Stevie Wonder)
• X&Y - Coldplay (Danton Supple, Ken Nelson & Coldplay)
  (Honourable Mentions: Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen, Late Registration - Kanye West, Possibilities - Herbie Hancock, So Amazing...An All-Star Tribute to Luther Vandross - various artists)

Best Music Video

• "Feel Good, Inc." - Gorillaz, ft. De La Soul (Pete Candeland & Jamie Hewlett, directors; Emilie Walmsley & Cara Speller, producers)
• "Gold Digger" - Kanye West, ft. Jamie Foxx (Hype Williams, director)
• "Lose Control" - Missy Elliott, ft. Ciara & Fatman Scoop (Missy Elliott & Dave Meyers, directors; Joseph Sasson, producer)
• "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers (Sophie Muller, director)
• "World on Fire" - Sarah MacLachlan (Sophie Muller, director)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Best of You" - Foo Fighters, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day, "Feels Like It Should" - Jamiroquai, "God's Will" - Martina McBride, "Ordinary People" - John Legend)

Best Country Song

• "Alcohol" - Brad Paisley (Frank Rogers)
• "All Jacked Up" - Gretchen Wilson (John Rich, Gretchen Wilson & Mark Wright)
• "Bless the Broken Road" - Rascal Flatts (Mark Bright, Rascal Flatts & Marty Williams)
• "I May Hate Myself in the Morning" - Lee Ann Womack (Byron Gallimore)
• "You'll Think of Me" - Keith Urban (Dann Huff & Keith Urban)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Anything But Mine" - Kenny Chesney, "God's Will" - Martina McBride, "Mr. Mom" - Lonestar, "Nothin' to Lose" - Josh Gracin, "Restless" - Alison Krauss & The Union Station)

Best Dance/Electronic Song

• "Galvanize" - The Chemical Brothers, ft. Q-Tip (The Chemical Brothers)
• "I Believe in You" - Kylie Minogue (Jake Shears & Babydaddy)
• "Wonderful Night" - Fatboy Slim, ft. Lateef (Fatboy Slim)

Best Pop Song

• "American Baby" - Dave Matthews Band (Mark Batson)
• "Feel Good, Inc." - Gorillaz, ft. De La Soul (Gorillaz, Danger Mouse & Jason Cox)
• "Hollaback Girl" - Gwen Stefani (The Neptunes)
• "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers (The Killers)
• "Since U Been Gone" - Kelly Clarkson (Max Martin & Dr. Luke)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Don't Lie" - Black Eyed Peas, "It's Like That" - Mariah Carey, "Lonely No More" - Rob Thomas, "My Doorbell" - The White Stripes, "A Time 2 Love" - Stevie Wonder & India.Arie)

Best Rap Song

• "Don't Phunk with My Heart" - Black Eyed Peas (Will.i.am)
• "Gold Digger" - Kanye West, ft. Jamie Foxx (Kanye West & Jon Brion)
• "Mockingbird" - Eminem (Eminem)
• "Numb/Encore" - Jay-Z & Linkin Park (Mike Shinoda)
• "Rich Girl" - Gwen Stefani, ft. Eve (Dr. Dre)
  (Honourable Mentions: "1, 2 Step" - Ciara & Missy Elliott, "Candy Shop" - 50 Cent, ft. Olivia, "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" - Kanye West, "Dreams" - The Game, "Testify" - Common)

Best Rock Song

• "Best of You" - Foo Fighters (Nick Raskulinecz & Foo Fighters)
• "Beverly Hills" - Weezer (Rick Rubin)
• "Devils & Dust" - Bruce Springsteen (Brendan O'Brien)
• "Photograph" - Nickelback (Joey Moi)
• "Speed of Sound" - Coldplay (Danton Supple & Coldplay)
• "Wake Me Up When September Ends" - Green Day (Rob Cavallo)
  (Honourable Mentions: "All These Things That I've Done" - The Killers, "City of Blinding Lights" - U2, "Holiday" - Green Day, "This is How a Heart Breaks" - Rob Thomas)

Best Songwriting

• "Bless the Broken Road" - Rascal Flatts (Bobby Boyd, Jeff Hanna & Marcus Hummon)
• "Fix You" - Coldplay (Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin)
• "Ordinary People" - John Legend (John Stephens & William Adams)
• "Wake Me Up When September Ends" - Green Day (Billie Joe Armstrong)
• "We Belong Together" - Mariah Carey (Mariah Carey, Johntá Austin, Jermaine Dupri & Manuel Seal)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Behind These Hazel Eyes" - Kelly Clarkson, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - Green Day, "Mockingbird" - Eminem, "Mr. Brightside" - The Killers, "Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own" - U2)

Best Original Score

• The Incredibles (Michael Giacchino)
• Lost (Michael Giacchino)
• Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
• Pride and Prejudice (Dario Marianelli)
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (John Williams)

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

• Napoleon Dynamite: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Brian McNelis & Skip Williamson)
• Ray: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (James Austin, Stuart Benjamin & Taylor Hackford)
• Six Feet Under, Volume 2: Everything Ends (Gary Calamar, Thomas Golubic & Errol Kolosine)

Best Song Written for Visual Media

• "Believe" - The Polar Express (Glen Ballard & Alan Silvestri)
• "Find Your Grail" - Monty Python's Spamalot (John du Prez, Eric Idle & Neil Innes)
• "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" - Hustle & Flow (Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman & Paul Beauregard)
• "Learn To Be Lonely" - The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber & Charlie Hart)
• "Million Voices" - Hotel Rwanda (Wyclef Jean, Jerry Duplessis & Andrea Guerra)

Best New Artist

• Ciara
• Fall Out Boy
• Fantasia Barrino
• John Legend
• The Pussycat Dolls
  (Honourable Mentions: Amos Lee, The Game, My Chemical Romance, Natasha Bedingfield, Sugarland)

2005 Tyler's Choice Television Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Television Series - Drama

• 24 (Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran, Howard Gordon, Brian Grazer & Tony Krantz)
• Deadwood (David Milch & Gregg Fienberg)
• Lost (J.J. Abrams, Jack Bender, Bryan Burk, Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof)
• Six Feet Under (Alan Ball, Robert Greenblatt, David Janollari, Bruce Eric Kaplan & Alan Poul)
• The West Wing (John Wells, Alex Graves & Christopher Misiano)
  (Honourable Mentions: Alias, Battlestar Galactica, House, Rescue Me, The Shield)

Best Television Series - Comedy

• Arrested Development (Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Mitchell Hurwitz & David Nevins)
• Desperate Housewives (Marc Cherry, Michael Edelstein & Tom Spezialy)
• Everybody Loves Raymond (Ray Romano, Philip Rosenthal, Tucker Cawley, Rory Rosegarten, Mike Royce, Lew Schneider, Aaron Shure, Steve Skrovan, Stu Smiley & Jeremy Stevens)
• Gilmore Girls (Daniel Palladino, Amy Sherman-Palladino & Gavin Polone)
• Scrubs (Bill Lawrence)
  (Honourable Mentions: Entourage, Malcolm in the Middle, The Simpsons, Two and a Half Men, Will & Grace)

Best Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Empire Falls (Paul Newman, Marc Platt, Fred Schepisi & Scott Steindorff, executive producers; William Teitler, producer)
• Lackawanna Blues (Halle Berry, Vincent Cirrincione, Ruben Santiago-Hudson & Shelby Stone, executive producers; Nellie Rachel Nugiel, producer)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Freddy DeMann, George Faber, Charles Pattinson & David M. Thompson, executive producers; Simon Bosanquet, producer)
• The Office Christmas Special (Anil Gupta, Jon Plowman & Paul Lee, executive producers; Ash Atalla, producer)
• Warm Springs (Celia D. Costas & Mark Gordon, executive producers; Chrisann Verges, producer)
  (Honourable Mentions: The 4400, Elvis, The Grid, The Lost Prince, The Wool Cap)

Best Variety Series

• Da Ali G Show (Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Fincham & Dan Mazer)
• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Ben Karlin & Jon Stewart)
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Lorne Michaels & Jeff Ross)
• Late Show with David Letterman (Barbara Gaines, Maria Pope, Rob Burnett & Jude Brennan)
• Saturday Night Live (Lorne Michaels)

Best Variety Special

• 58th Tony Awards (Ricky Kirshner & Glenn Weiss)
• 77th Academy Awards (Louis J. Horvitz, executive producers; Gilbert Cates, producer)
• Everybody Loves Raymond: The Last Laugh (Ray Romano, Philip Rosenthal, Stu Smiley, Rory Rosegarten, Lew Schneider, Tucker Cawley, Steve Skrovan, Jeremy Stevens, Mike Royce, Aaron Shure, Mark Herzog & Mark Cowen, executive producers; Jonathan Buss, Holli Gailen & Ken Ornstein, producers)
• Summer Olympic Games XXVII - Opening Ceremony (Dick Ebersol, executive producer; David Neal & Jim Bell, producers)
• Whoopi Goldberg: Back to Broadway (Marty Callner & Whoopi Goldberg)

Best Reality Series

• Antiques Roadshow (Marsha Bemko)
• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Tom Forman)
• MythBusters (John Luscombe)
• Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Mark Wolper & Star Price)
• Project Greenlight (Ben Affleck, Sean Bailey, Dan Cutforth, Matt Damon, Jane Lipsitz, Chris Moore, Bob Osher, Harvey Weinstein & Bob Weinstein)

Best Reality-Competition Series

• The Amazing Race (Jerry Bruckheimer, Bertram van Munster, Jonathan Littman & Hayma "Screech" Washington)
• American Idol (Nigel Lythgoe, Ken Warwick, Cecile Frot-Coutaz)
  
• Survivor (Mark Burnett, Charlie Parsons & Tom Shelly)

Best Animated Program

• Family Guy - "North by North Quahog" (Seth MacFarlane, executive producer/writer; David A. Goodman & Chris Sheridan, executive producers; Peter Shin, director)
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - "House of Bloos" (Craig McCracken, executive producer/director/writer; Brian A. Miller, executive producer; Robert Alvarez & Randy Myers, animation directors)
• Samurai Jack - "The Four Seasons of Death" (Genndy Tartakovsky, executive producer/producer/director; Brian A. Miller, executive producer; Randy Myers, director; Bryan Andrews & Mark Andrews, writers)
• The Simpsons - "Future-Drama" (Al Jean, James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Sam Simon & Ian Maxtone-Graham, executive producers; Mike B. Anderson, director; Matt Selman, executive producer/writer)
• South Park - "Best Friends Forever" (Trey Parker, executive producer/director/writer; Matt Stone & Anne Garefino, executive producers)
  (Honourable Mentions: American Dad! - "Pilot", The Fairly OddParents - "Channel Chasers", King of the Hill - "It Ain't Over 'til the Fat Neighbor Sings", SpongeBob Squarepants - "Fear of a Krabby Patty/Shell of a Man", Star Wars: The Clone Wars - "Vol. 2 (Chapters 21-25)")

Best Lead Actor - Drama

• Hank Azaria - Huff (Episode: "Crazy, Nuts and All Fucked Up")
• Hugh Laurie - House (Episode: "Detox")
  
• Ian McShane - Deadwood (Episode: "The Whores Can Come")
• James Spader - Boston Legal (Episode: "Death Be Not Proud")
• Kiefer Sutherland - 24 (Episode: "Day 4: 2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.")
  (Honourable Mentions: Michael Chiklis - The Shield, Matthew Fox - Lost, Peter Krause - Six Feet Under, Denis Leary - Rescue Me, Martin Sheen - The West Wing)

Best Lead Actor - Comedy

• Jason Bateman - Arrested Development (Episode: "Righteous Brothers")
• Zach Braff - Scrubs (Episode: "My Last Chance")
• Eric McCormack - Will & Grace (Episode: "Queens for a Day")
• Ray Romano - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "The Power of No")
• Tony Shalhoub - Monk (Episode: "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine")
  (Honourable Mentions: Kevin Connolly - Entourage, Topher Grace - That 70's Show, George Lopez - George Lopez, Frankie Muniz - Malcolm in the Middle, Charlie Sheen - Two and a Half Men)

Best Lead Actor - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Kenneth Branagh - Warm Springs
• Ed Harris - Empire Falls
• William H. Macy - The Wool Cap
  
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers - Elvis
• Geoffrey Rush - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  (Honourable Mentions: Ted Danson - Our Fathers, Marcus Carl Franklin - Lackawanna Blues, Ricky Gervais - The Office Special, Dylan McDermott - The Grid, Jon Voight - The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

Best Lead Actress - Drama

• Kristen Bell - Veronica Mars (Episode: "Pilot")
• Glenn Close - The Shield (Episode: "Hurt")
  
• Frances Conroy - Six Feet Under (Episode: "Coming and Going")
• Jennifer Garner - Alias (Episode: "Before the Flood")
• Mariska Hargitay - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Charisma")
  (Honourable Mentions: Patricia Arquette - Medium, Allison Janney - The West Wing, Evangeline Lilly - Lost, Mary McDonnell - Battlestar Galactica, Molly Parker - Deadwood)

Best Lead Actress - Comedy

• Marcia Cross - Desperate Housewives (Episode: "Running to Stand Still")
• Lauren Graham - Gilmore Girls (Episode: "Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller")
• Patricia Heaton - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "The Finale")
• Felicity Huffman - Desperate Housewives (Episode: "Pilot")
• Eva Longoria - Desperate Housewives (Episode: "Children Will Listen")
  (Honourable Mentions: Kirstie Alley - Fat Actress, Faith Ford - Hope & Faith, Jane Kaczmarek - Malcolm in the Middle, Mila Kunis - That 70's Show, Debra Messing - Will & Grace)

Best Lead Actress - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Halle Berry - Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Blythe Danner - Back When We Were Grownups
• S. Epatha Merkerson - Lackawanna Blues
• Cynthia Nixon - Warm Springs
• Miranda Richards - The Lost Prince
  (Honourable Mentions: Kristen Bell - Reefer Madness, Jacqueline MacKenzie - The 4400, Julianna Margulies - The Grid, Natascha McElhone - Revelations, Debra Winger - Dawn Anna)

Best Supporting Actor - Drama

• Alan Alda - The West Wing (Episode: "In God We Trust")
• Naveen Andrews - Lost (Episode: "The Greater Good")
• Terry O'Quinn - Lost (Episode: "Walkabout")
• Oliver Platt - Huff (Episode: "Crazy, Nuts and All Fucked Up")
• William Shatner - Boston Legal (Episode: "Tortured Souls")
  (Honourable Mentions: Anthony Anderson - The Shield, Powers Boothe - Deadwood, James Cromwell - Six Feet Under, Victor Garber - Alias, Walton Goggins - The Shield)

Best Supporting Actor - Comedy

• Will Arnett - Arrested Development (Episode: "Righteous Brothers")
• Peter Boyle - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "Tasteless Frank")
• Brad Garrett - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "Pat's Secret")
• Jeremy Piven - Entourage (Episode: "Busey and the Beach")
• Jeffrey Tambor - Arrested Development (Episode: "Righteous Brothers")
  (Honourable Mentions: Bryan Cranston - Malcolm in the Middle, David Cross - Arrested Development, Jon Cryer - Two and a Half Men, Sean Hayes - Will & Grace, John C. McGinley - Scrubs)

Best Supporting Actor - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Empire Falls
• John Lithgow - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• Paul Newman - Empire Falls
• Christopher Plummer - Our Fathers
• Randy Quaid - Elvis
  (Honourable Mentions: Peter Coyote - The 4400, Jeff Daniels - The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Martin Freeman - The Office Special, Terrence Howard - Lackawanna Blues, Tim Blake Nelson - Warm Springs)

Best Supporting Actress - Drama

• Shorheh Aghdashloo - 24 (Episode: "Day 4: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.")
• Stockhard Channing - The West Wing (Episode: "The Wake Up Call")
• Blythe Danner - Huff (Episode: "Is She Dead?")
• Sandra Oh - Grey's Anatomy (Episode: "Save Me")
• C.C.H. Pounder - The Shield (Episode: "Doghouse")
  (Honourable Mentions: Lauren Ambrose - Six Feet Under, Yunjin Kim - Lost, Paula Malcomson - Deadwood, Michelle Rodriguez - Lost, Mary Steenburgen - Joan of Arcadia)

Best Supporting Actress - Comedy

• Kelly Bishop - Gilmore Girls (Episode: "Emily Says Hello")
• Portia de Rossi - Arrested Development (Episode: "Burning Love")
• Megan Mullally - Will & Grace (Episode: "Saving Grace, Again")
• Doris Roberts - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "The Finale")
• Jessica Walter - Arrested Development (Episode: "Motherboy XXX")
  (Honourable Mentions: Sarah Chalke - Scrubs, Conchata Farrell - Two and a Half Men, Judy Reyes - Scrubs, Nicollette Sheridan - Desperate Housewives, Holland Taylor - Two and a Half Men)

Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Jane Alexander - Warm Springs
• Kathy Bates - Warm Springs
• Camryn Manheim - Elvis
• Charlize Theron - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• Emily Watson - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  (Honourable Mentions: Laura Allen - The 4400, Lucy Davis - The Office Special, Macy Gray - Lackawanna Blues, Helen Hunt - Empire Falls, Joanne Woodward - Empire Falls)

Best Guest Actor - Drama

• Martin Landau - Without a Trace (Episode: "John Michaels")
• Ray Liotta - ER (Episode: "Time of Death")
• Alfred Molina - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Night")
• Martin Short - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Pure")
• Jimmy Smits - The West Wing (Episode: "Liftoff")
  (Honourable Mentions: Red Buttons - ER, Charles Durning - NCIS, Arliss Howard - Medium, James Earl Jones - Everwood, Gerald McRaney - Deadwood)

Best Guest Actor - Comedy

• Bobby Cannavale - Will & Grace (Episode: "Queens for a Day")
• Jeff Goldblum - Will & Grace (Episode: "Board Games")
• Matthew Perry - Scrubs (Episode: "My Unicorn")
  
• Ben Stiller - Arrested Development (Episode: "Sword of Destiny")
• Fred Willard - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "Pat's Secret")
  (Honourable Mentions: Alec Baldwin - Will & Grace, Tom Cavanaugh - Scrubs, Robert Culp - Everybody Loves Raymond, Bob Newhart - Desperate Housewives, Henry Winkler - Arrested Development)

Best Guest Actress - Drama

• Swoosie Kurtz - Huff (Episode: "Christmas is Ruined")
• Angela Lansbury - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Night")
• Cloris Leachman - Joan of Arcadia (Episode: "The Cat")
• Lena Olin - Alias (Episode: "Search and Rescue")
• Amanda Plummer - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Episode: "Weak")
  (Honourable Mentions: Lorraine Bracco - Law & Order: Trial by Jury, Jill Clayburgh - Nip/Tuck, Cynthia Nixon - ER, Annie Potts - House, Sela Ward - House)

Best Guest Actress - Comedy

• Georgia Engel - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "Pat's Secret")
• Kathryn Joosten - Desperate Housewives (Episode: "Love is in the Air")
• Cloris Leachman - Malcolm in the Middle (Episode: "Ida Loses a Leg")
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Arrested Development (Episode: "Out on a Limb")
• Liza Minnelli - Arrested Development (Episode: "Queen for a Day")
  (Honourable Mentions: Blythe Danner - Will & Grace, Judy Greer - Arrested Development, Lupe Ontiveros - Desperate Housewives, Lesley Ann Warren - Desperate Housewives)

Best Direction - Drama

• J.J. Abrams - Lost (Episode: "Pilot")
• Alex Graves - The West Wing (Episode: "2162 Votes")
• Peter Horton - Grey's Anatomy (Episode: "A Hard Day's Night")
• Quentin Tarantino - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Episode: "Grave Danger")
  
• Scott Winant - Huff (Episode: "Crazy, Nuts and All Fucked Up")
  (Honourable Mentions: Phillip Atwell - The Shield, Ed Bianchi - Deadwood, Michael Cuesta - Six Feet Under, Gregg Fienberg - Deadwood, Peter Tolan - Rescue Me)

Best Direction - Comedy

• Gary Halvorson - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "The Finale")
• Charles McDougall - Desperate Housewives (Episode: "Pilot")
• Joe Russo - Arrested Development (Episode: "Motherboy XXX")
• Amy Sherman-Palladino - Gilmore Girls (Episode: "Wedding Bell Blues")
• Randall Zisk - Monk (Episode: "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine")
  (Honourable Mentions: Adam Bernstein - Scrubs, Linwood Boomer - Malcolm in the Middle, James Burrows - Will & Grace, David Frankel - Entourage, Arlene Sanford - Desperate Housewives)

Best Direction - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant - The Office Special
• Stephen Hopkins - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• Joseph Sargent - Warm Springs
• Fred Schepisi - Empire Falls
• George C. Wolfe - Lackawanna Blues
  (Honourable Mentions: Robert Altman - Tanner on Tanner, Lesli Linka Glatter - Revelations, Stephen Poliakoff - The Lost Prince, James Steven Sandwith - Elvis, Yves Simoneau - The 4400)

Best Writing - Drama

• J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber & Damon Lindelof - Lost (Episode: "Pilot")
• Ronald D. Moore - Battlestar Galactica (Episode: "33")
• George Pelecanos & David Simon - The Wire (Episode: "Middle Ground")
• David Shore - House (Episode: "Three Stories")
• Peter Tolan & Denis Leary - Rescue Me (Episode: "Pilot")
  (Honourable Mentions: Debora Cahn - The West Wing, David Fury - Lost, Ted Mann - Deadwood, Nancy Oliver - Six Feet Under, Naren Shankar - CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)

Best Writing - Comedy

• Marc Cherry - Desperate Housewives (Episode: "Pilot")
• Doug Ellin & Larry Charles - Entourage (Episode: "Busey and the Beach")
• Mitchell Hurwitz & Jim Vallely - Arrested Development (Episode: "Righteous Brothers")
• Ray Romano, Philip Rosenthal, Tucker Cawley, Lew Schneider, Steve Skrovan, Jeremy Stevens, Mike Royce, Aaron Shure, Tom Caltabiano & Leslie Caveny - Everybody Loves Raymond (Episode: "The Finale")
• Amy Sherman-Palladino - Gilmore Girls (Episode: "Wedding Bell Blues")

Best Writing - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Rene Echevarria & Scott Peters - The 4400
• Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant - The Office Special
• Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely - The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
• Margaret Nagle - Warm Springs
• Richard Russo - Empire Falls
  (Honourable Mentions: Tracey Alexander & Ken Friedman - The Grid, Thomas Michael Donnelly - Our Fathers, Stephen Poliakoff - The Lost Prince, Ruben Santiago-Hudson - Lackawanna Blues, Garry Trudeau - Tanner on Tanner)

Best Casting - Drama

• 24 (Peggy Kennedy & Debi Manwiller)
• Deadwood (Libby Goldstein & Junie Lowry-Johnson)
• House (Amy Lippens)
• Lost (Veronica Collins, Mandy Sherman, April Webster & Alyssa Weisberg)
• The West Wing (Laura Schiff)
  (Honourable Mentions: Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Six Feet Under)

Best Casting - Comedy

• Arrested Development (Allison Jones)
• Desperate Housewives (Scott Genkinger & Junie Lowry-Johnson)
• Everybody Loves Raymond (Lisa Miller Katz)
• Scrubs (Brett Benner & Debby Romano)
• Will & Grace (Tracy Lilienfeld)
  (Honourable Mentions: Entourage, Gilmore Girls, Malcolm in the Middle, Monk, The Simpsons)

Best Casting - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Elvis (Beth Blanks, Steve Brooksbank & Mary Jo Slater)
• Empire Falls (Avy Kaufman)
  
• Lackawanna Blues (John Papsidera)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Nina Gold)
• Warm Springs (Shay Griffin & Lynn Kressel)
  (Honourable Mentions: The 4400, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Lost Prince, Reefer Madness, Their Eyes Were Watching God) 

Best Cinematography - Series

• 24 - Rodney Charters (Episode: "Day 4: 5:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m.")
• Carnivàle - Jeff Jur (Episode: "Lincoln Highway")
• Deadwood - James Glennon (Episode: "Complications")
  
• Lost - Larry Fong (Episode: "Pilot")
• Six Feet Under - Lowell Patterson (Episode: "Untitled")
• (Honourable Mentions: Carnivàle - Jim Denault, Desperate Housewives - David Franco, Gilmore Girls - Richard M. Rawlings, Jr., Veronica Mars - Joaquin Sedillo, Without a Trace - Peter Manning Robinson)

Best Cinematography - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Faith of My Fathers (Bill Roe)
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Kramer Morgenthau)
• Lackawanna Blues (Ivan Strasburg)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Peter Levy)
• Warm Springs (Robbie Greenberg)
  

Best Costume Design - Series

• Arrested Development - Katie Sparks (Episode: "Motherboy XXX")
  
• Battlestar Galactica - Glenne Campbell (Episode: "Bastille Day")
• Carnivàle - Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko (Episode: "The Road to Damascus")
• Deadwood - Janie Bryant (Episode: "New Money")
• Desperate Housewives - Catherine Adair (Episode: "Suspicious Minds")
  (Honourable Mentions: Alias, Gilmore Girls, MADtv, Six Feet Under, The West Wing)

Best Costume Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Elvis (Eduardo Castro)
• Empire Falls (Donna Zakowska)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Jill Taylor)
• The Lost Prince (Odile Dicks-Mireaux)
• Warm Springs (Hope Hanafin)
  (Honourable Mentions: The 4400, Conquest of America, Lackawanna Blues, Reefer Madness, Tanner on Tanner)

Best Editing - Series

• 24 - Chris G. Willingham (Episode: "Day 4: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.")
• Alias - Anthony Miller (Episode: "Search and Rescue")
• Arrested Development - Robert Bramwell (Episode: "Motherboy XXX")
• Deadwood - Stephen Mark (Episode: "A Lie Agreed Upon: Part I")
• Lost - Mary Jo Markey (Episode: "Pilot")
  (Honourable Mentions: 24 (Scott Powell), Battlestar Galactica (Dany Cooper), Desperate Housewives (Michael Berenbaum), Everybody Loves Raymond (Pat Barnett), Will & Grace (Peter John Chakos))

Best Editing - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Empire Falls (Kate Williams)
• Faith of My Fathers (Scott Boyd)
• Lackawanna Blues (Brian A. Kates)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (John Smith)
• Warm Springs (Michael Brown)
  (Honourable Mentions: The 4400 (Allan Lee), Back When We Were Grownups (Tina Hirsch), Elvis (Katina Zinner), The Wool Cap (Paul Dixon))

Best Ensemble - Drama

• Battlestar Galactica (Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park, Michael Hogan, Aaron Douglas, Sam Witwer & Katee Sackhoff, et. al.)
• Deadwood (Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, John Hawkes, Paula Malcomson, Powers Boothe, Kim Dickens & Anna Gunn, et. al.)
• Lost (Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Naveen Andrews, Jorge Garcia, Maggie Grace, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Dominic Monaghan & Terry O'Quinn, et. al.)
• Six Feet Under (Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick, George Sibley, Justina Machado & Rachel Griffiths, et. al.)
• The West Wing (Alan Alda, Stockhard Channing, Dulé Hill, Allison Janney, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff, John Spencer, Bradley Whitford, Jimmy Smits & Martin Sheen, et. al.)

Best Ensemble - Comedy

• Arrested Development (Jason Bateman, Portia de Rossi, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat, Tony Hale, David Cross, Jeffrey Tambor & Jessica Walter, et. al.)
• Desperate Housewives (Felicity Huffman, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan, Steven Culp, Jesse Metcalfe, Cody Kasch, James Denton & Brenda Strong, et. al.)
• Everybody Loves Raymond (Ray Romano, Philip Rosenthal, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle, Monica Horan, Madylin Sweeten, Georgia Engel & Fred Willard, et. al.)
• Scrubs (Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, Neil Flynn, Ken Jenkins, Judy Reyes & John C. McGinley, et. al.)
• The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor & Tress MacNeille, et. al.)

Best Main Title Design

• Desperate Housewives (Yolanda Santosa & Garson Yu)
• House (Dan Brown, Dave Molloy, Matt Mulder & Jake Sargeant)
• Huff (Tracy Chandler, Jose Gomez, Christopher Markos & André Stringer)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Paul Donnellon, David Z. Obadiah, John Sunter & Andrew White)
• Rescue Me (Paul Matthaeus, Andrew Maggio & Amy D'Alessandro)
  

Best Main Title Theme Music

• Battlestar Galactica (Richard Gibbs)
• Desperate Housewives (Danny Elfman)
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (James Venable)
• Huff (Snuffy Walden)
• Stargate Atlantis (Joel Goldsmith)

Best Makeup - Series

• Carnivàle - Steve Artmont, Simone Almekias-Siegl & Heather Plott (Episode: "Alamogordo, N.M.")
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Melanie Levitt, Matthew W. Mungle & Pam Phillips (Episode: "Ch-Changes")
• Deadwood - John Rizzo, Adam Brandy & Deborah McNulty (Episode: "A Lie Agreed Upon: Part I")
• Nip/Tuck - Eryn Kreuger Mekash & Stephanie A. Fowler (Episode: "Julia McNamara")
• Star Trek: Enterprise - Michael Westmore, Suzanne Diaz & Garrett Immel (Episode: "Untitled")

Best Makeup - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Frankenstein (Beatrix Dollingerova)
• Lackawanna Blues (Edna Sheen, Charles Gregory Ross & Karen Westerfield)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Wesley Wofford, Davy Jones & Veronica McAleer)
• Reefer Madness (Victoria Down & Joann Fowler)
• Warm Springs (Carla White, Donna M. Premick & Taylor Knight)

Best Music Composition - Series

• 24 - Sean Callery (Episode: "Day 4: 2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.")
• Battlestar Galactica - Bear McCreary (Episode: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part 2")
• Carnivàle - Jeff Beal (Episode: "Lincoln Highway")
• House - Christopher Hoag (Episode: "Pilot")
• Lost - Michael Giacchino (Episode: "Pilot")
  (Honourable Mentions: Alias (Michael Giacchino), Deadwood (Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek), Desperate Housewives (Steve Bartek), Medium (Jeff Beal), The Simpsons (Alf Clausen))

Best Music Composition - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Empire Falls (Paul Grabowsky)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Richard Hartley)
• Pride (George Fenton)
• Sometimes in April (Bruno Coulais)
• Warm Springs (Bruce Broughton)
  (Honourable Mentions: The 4400 (George S. Clinton), Lackawanna Blues (Meshell Ndegeocello), The Lost Prince (Richard Hartley), Revelations (Joseph Vitarelli), Salem's Lot (Christopher Gordon))

Best Original Music & Lyrics

• Malcolm in the Middle - "The Marriage Bed" (Charles Sydnor & Eric Kaplan)
• Reefer Madness - "Mary Jane/Mary Lane" (Dan Studney & Kevin Murphy)
• The Simpsons - "Always My Dad" (Alf Clausen & Carolyn Omine)

Best Production Design - Series

• Carnivàle - Dan Bishop & Joyce Anne Gilstrap (Episode: "Old Cherry Blossom Road")
• Deadwood - Maria Rebman Caso & Ernie Bishop (Episode: "New Money")
• Desperate Housewives - Thomas A. Walsh & Erica Rogalla (Episode: "Suspicious Minds")
• Lost - Mark Worthington & Brian Costa (Episode: "Pilot")
• The West Wing - Kenneth Hardy & Ellen Totleben (Episode: "2162 Votes")
  (Honourable Mentions: Cold Case, Grey's Anatomy, Six Feet Under, Star Trek: Enterprise, Will & Grace)

Best Production Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Empire Falls (Stuart Wuertzel & Maria Nay)
• Faith of My Fathers (Vincent M. Cresciman & Raymond Pumila)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Norman Garwood & Maggie Gray)
• The Lost Prince (John Paul Kelly & Sara Wan)
• Warm Springs (Sarah Knowles & Frank Galline)

Best Sound Design - Series

• 24 - William Dotson, Kenneth Kobett & Michael Olman (Episode: "Day 4: 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 a.m.")
• Battlestar Galactica - Jack Levy, Kevin Burns & Todd Orr (Episode: "You Can't Go Home Again")
• Deadwood - Benjamin Cook, William Freesh & R. Russell Smith (Episode: "A Lie Agreed Upon: Part I")
• Lost - Thomas deGorter, Frank Morrone & Scott Weber (Episode: "Pilot")
• The West Wing - Thomas A. Harris, Dan Hiland & Gary D. Rogers (Episode: "2162 Votes")
  (Honourable Mentions: Alias, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Rescue Me, The Shield, Smallville)

Best Sound Design - Miniseries or Made for Television Movie

• Empire Falls (Glenn Newnham, Paul Pirola & Roger Savage)
• Faith of My Fathers (Harry E. Snodgrass, Mark Linden & Tara Paul)
• Lackawanna Blues (Jon Mete, Rick Ash & Adam Jenkins)
• The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (Tim Hands, Rick Ash & Adam Jenkins)
• Warm Springs (Richard Taylor, Rick Ash, Mary H. Ellis & Adam Jenkins)
  (Honourable Mentions: 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story, The 4400, Elvis, The Grid, The Wool Cap)

Best Visual Effects

• Alias - Kevin Blank, Mitchell Ferm, David Pahoa & Jonathan Spencer Levy (Episode: "Before the Flood")
• Battlestar Galactica - Gary Hutzel, Patricia Gannon, Michael Gibson & Lee Stringer (Episode: "33")
• Lost - Kevin Blank, Mitch Suskin, Archie Ahuna & Steve Fong (Episode: "Pilot")
• Stargate SG-1 - Michelle Comens, James Rorick, Karen Watson & Brett Keyes (Episode: "Reckoning")
• Supervolcano - Rob Harvey, Max Wright & Abbie Tucker-Williams & Mark Richardson
  (Honourable Mentions: The 4400, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Hercules, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek: Enterprise)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Albert Brooks - The Simpsons for voicing Tab Spangler in "The Heartbroke Kid"
• Dan Castellaneta - The Simpsons for voicing Homer Simpson in "Mobile Homer"
• Keith Ferguson - Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends for voicing Bloo in "Store Wars"
• Johnny Hardwick - King of the Hill for voicing Dale Gribble in "Smoking and the Bandit"
• Seth MacFarlane - Family Guy for voicing Peter Griffin in "North by North Quahog"

2005 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

• Brokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana & James Schamus)
• Capote (Caroline Baron, William Vince & Michael Ohoven)
• Crash (Paul Haggis & Cathy Schulman)
• Munich (Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy & Barry Mendel)
• Walk the Line (James Keach & Cathy Conrad)
  (Honourable Mentions: Cinderella Man, A History of Violence, King Kong, March of the Penguins, Pride and Prejudice)

Best Director

• George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck
• Peter Jackson - King Kong
• Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
• Bennett Miller - Capote
• Steven Spielberg - Munich
  (Honourable Mentions: David Cronenberg - A History of Violence, Paul Haggis - Crash, Ron Howard - Cinderella Man, James Mangold - Walk the Line, Frank Miller & Robert Rodriguez - Sin City)

Best Lead Actor

• Johnny Depp - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
• Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
• Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
• Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
  (Honourable Mentions: Christian Bale - Batman Begins, Russell Crowe - Cinderella Man, Jeff Daniels - The Squid and the Whale, Viggo Mortensen - A History of Violence, David Straitharn - Good Night, and Good Luck)

Best Lead Actress

• Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
• Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice
• Laura Linney - The Squid and the Whale
• Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
  (Honourable Mentions: Joan Allen - The Upside of Anger, Claire Danes - Shopgirl, Gwyneth Paltrow - Proof, Charlize Theron - North Country, Ziyi Zhang - Memoirs of a Geisha)

Best Supporting Actor

• George Clooney - Syriana
• Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
• William Hurt - A History of Violence
• Mickey Rourke - Sin City
  (Honourable Mentions: George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck, Matt Damon - Crash, Val Kilmer - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Geoffrey Rush - Munich, Peter Sarsgaard - Jarhead)

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams - Junebug
• Catherine Keener - Capote
• Frances McDormand - North Country
• Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
• Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
  (Honourable Mentions: Maria Bello - A History of Violence, Rosario Dawson - Rent, Scarlett Johansson - Match Point, Diane Keaton - The Family Stone, Thandiwe Newton - Crash)

Best Original Screenplay

• The 40-Year-Old Virgin (Judd Apatow & Steve Carell)
• Crash (Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco)
• Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney & Grant Heslov)
• Match Point (Woody Allen)
• The Squid and the Whale (Noah Baumbach)
  (Honourable Mentions: Broken Flowers, Cinderella Man, Hustle & Flow, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Madagascar)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Brokeback Mountain (Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana; based on the short story by Annie Proulx)
• Capote (Dan Futterman; based on the book by Gerald Clarke)
• The Constant Gardener (Jeffrey Caine; based on the novel by John le Carré)
• Munich (Tony Kushner & Eric Roth; based on the book Vengeance by George Jonas)
• Syriana (Stephen Gaghan; based on the memoir See No Evil by Robert Baer)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, A History of Violence, Memoirs of a Geisha, Pride and Prejudice, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)

Best Cast Ensemble

• The 40-Year-Old Virgin [Marla Griffin & Allison Jones] (Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Kat Dennings & Jonah Hill, et. al.)
• Crash [Sarah Finn & Randi Hiller] (Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Ludacris, Thandiwe Newton, Ryan Philippe & Michael Pena)
• Good Night, and Good Luck [Ellen Chenoweth] (David Straitharn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella, Jeff Daniels, Tate Donovan, Thomas McCarthy, Alex Borstein & Grant Heslov, et. al.)
• Sin City [Mary Vernieu] (Jessica Alba, Powers Boothe, Rosario Dawson, Benicio del Toro, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rutger Hauer, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis & Elijah Wood, et. al.)
• The Squid and the Whale [Douglas Aibel] (Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Anna Paquin, Owen Kline & William Baldwin, et. al.)
  (Honourable Mentions: Brokeback Mountain, King Kong, Madagascar, Pride and Prejudice, Rent)

Best Young Actor (18 or Under)

• Alex Etel - Millions
• Dakota Fanning - War of the Worlds
• Freddie Highmore - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Owen Kline - The Squid and the Whale
• Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  (Honourable Mentions: Georgie Henley - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Josh Hutcherson - Zathura, Q'orianka Kilcher - The New World, Suzuka Ohgo - Memoirs of a Geisha, Emma Watson - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

Best Foreign Language Film

• 2046 [Hong Kong] (Wong Kar-wai)
• Caché [France] (Michael Haneke)
• Downfall [Germany] (Olivier Hirschbiel)
• Kung Fu Hustle [China] (Stephen Chow)
• Tsotsi [South Africa] (Gavin Hood)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Beast in the Heart, Innocent Voices, Joyeux Noël, Paradise Now, Walk on Water)

Best Documentary Feature [TIE]

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney & Jason Kliot)
  
• Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, Erik Nelson & Billy Campbell)
• Mad Hot Ballroom (Marilyn Agrelo & Amy Sewell)
• March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau & Emmanuel Pirou)
• Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro & Jeffrey V. Mandel)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Aristocrats, Darwin's Nightmare, Favela Rising, New York Doll, Street Fight)

Best Original Score

• Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla)
• The Constant Gardener (Alberto Iglesias)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (John Williams)
• Munich (John Williams)
• Pride and Prejudice (Dario Marianelli)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman Begins, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, King Kong, Madagascar, Syriana)

Best Original Song

• "In the Deep" - Crash (Kathleen "Bird" York & Michael Becker)
• "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" - Hustle & Flow (Cedric Coleman, Jordan Houston & Paul Beauregard)
• "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" - Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla & Bernie Taupin)
• "Travelin' Thru" - Transamerica (Dolly Parton)
• "Wunderkind" - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Alanis Morissette)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Broken" - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, "Magic Works" - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, "Mdlwembe" - Tsotsi, "One Little Slip" - Chicken Little, "Shine" - Robots)

Best Sound Editing

• Batman Begins (David Evans & Stefan Henrix)
• King Kong (Mike Hopkins & Ethan Van der Ryn)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Wylie Stateman)
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Ben Burtt & Matthew Wood)
• War of the Worlds (Richard King)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Corpse Bride, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Munich, Sin City)

Best Sound Mixing

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic & Tony Johnson)
• King Kong (Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges & Hammond Peek)
  
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline & John Pritchett)
• Walk the Line (Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill & Peter Kurland)
• War of the Worlds (Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer & Ron Judkins)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman Begins, Crash, Munich, Sin City, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith)

Best Animated Feature

• Corpse Bride (Tim Burton, Mike Johnson & Allison Abbate)
• Madagascar (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath & Mireille Soria)
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park, Steve Box, Peter Lord & David Sproxton)
  (Honourable Mentions: Chicken Little, Gulliver's Travel, Hoodwinked!, Howl's Moving Castle, Robots)

Best Voice Acting

• Sacha Baron Cohen - Madagascar for voicing King Julien
  
• Helena Bonham Carter - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit for voicing Lady Tottington
• Johnny Depp - Corpse Bride for voicing Victor Van Dort
• Ralph Fiennes - Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit for voicing Victor Quartermaine
• Liam Neeson - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for voicing Aslan
• (Honourable Mentions: Zach Braff - Chicken Little, Chris Rock - Madagascar, Ben Stiller - Madagascar, Patrick Warburton - Hoodwinked!, Robin Williams - Robots)

Best Cinematography

• Batman Begins (Wally Pfister)
• Brokeback Mountain (Rodrigo Prieto)
• Good Night, and Good Luck (Robert Elswit)
• March of the Penguins (Laurent Chalet & Jérôme Maison)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Dion Beebe)
• The New World (Emmanuel Lubezki)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Constant Gardener, King Kong, Munich, Pride and Prejudice, Sin City)

Best Film Editing

• Brokeback Mountain (Geraldine Peloni & Dylan Tichenor)
• Cinderella Man (Mike Hill & Daniel P. Hanley)
• Crash (Hughes Winborne)
• Munich (Michael Kahn)
• Walk the Line (Michael McCusker)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Constant Gardener, Good Night, and Good Luck, A History of Violence, King Kong, Sin City)

Best Art Direction

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Alex McDowell & Peter Young)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Stuart Craig & Stephenie McMillan)
• King Kong (Grant Major, Dan Hennah & Simon Bright)
  
• Memoirs of a Geisha (John Myhre & Gretchen Rau)
• Pride and Prejudice (Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman Begins, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Good Night, and Good Luck, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit)

Best Costume Design

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Gabriella Pescucci)
• Memoirs of a Geisha (Colleen Atwood)
• Mrs. Henderson Presents (Sandy Powell)
• Pride and Prejudice (Jacqueline Durran)
• Walk the Line (Arianne Phillips)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Good Night, and Good Luck, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Rent, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith)

Best Makeup

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Howard Berger & Tami Lane)
  
• Cinderella Man (David LeRoy Anderson & Lance Anderson)
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Dave Elsey & Nikki Gooley)
  (Honourable Mentions: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Memoirs of a Geisha, The New World, Sin City)

Best Visual Effects

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney & Scott Farrar)
  
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Jim Mitchell, John Richardson, Tim Webber & Tim Alexander)
• King Kong (Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers & Richard Taylor)
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (Roger Guyett, John Knoll, Susie Campbell & Rob Coleman)
• War of the Worlds (Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randal M. Dutra & Dan Sudick)
  (Honourable Mentions: Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Kingdom of Heaven, Sin City)