Brokeback Mountain – Diana Ossana and James Schamus
Capote – Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven* The Constant Gardener – Simon Channing Williams* Crash – Cathy Schulman, Don Cheadle and Bob Yari* Good Night, and Good Luck – Grant Heslov | Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain* Bennett Miller – Capote* Fernando Meirelles – The Constant Gardener* George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck* Paul Haggis – Crash |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote as Truman Capote* David Strathairn – Good Night, and Good Luck as Edward R. Murrow* Heath Ledger – Brokeback Mountain as Ennis Del Mar* Joaquin Phoenix – Walk the Line as Johnny Cash* Ralph Fiennes – The Constant Gardener as Justin Quayle | Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line as June Carter Cash* Charlize Theron – North Country as Josey Aimes* Judi Dench – Mrs Henderson Presents as Laura Henderson* Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener as Tessa Abbott-Quayle* Ziyi Zhang – Memoirs of a Geisha as Chiyo Sakamoto / Sayuri Nitta |
| Jake Gyllenhaal – Brokeback Mountain as Jack Twist* Don Cheadle – Crash as Detective Graham Waters* George Clooney – Good Night, and Good Luck as Fred W. Friendly* George Clooney – Syriana as Bob Barnes* Matt Dillon – Crash as Sergeant John Ryan | Thandiwe Newton – Crash as Christine Thayer* Brenda Blethyn – Pride & Prejudice as Mrs. Bennet* Catherine Keener – Capote as Nelle Harper Lee* Frances McDormand – North Country as Glory Dodge* Michelle Williams – Brokeback Mountain as Alma Beers Del Mar |
| Crash – Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco* Cinderella Man – Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman* Good Night, and Good Luck – George Clooney and Grant Heslov* Hotel Rwanda – Keir Pearson and Terry George* Mrs Henderson Presents – Martin Sherman | Brokeback Mountain – Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana* Capote – Dan Futterman* The Constant Gardener – Jeffrey Caine* A History of Violence – Josh Olson* Pride & Prejudice – Deborah Moggach |
| Memoirs of a Geisha – Dion Beebe* Brokeback Mountain – Rodrigo Prieto* The Constant Gardener – César Charlone* Crash – J. Michael Muro* March of the Penguins – Laurent Chalet and Jerome Maison | Memoirs of a Geisha – Colleen Atwood* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Gabriella Pescucci* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Isis Mussenden* Mrs Henderson Presents – Sandy Powell* Pride & Prejudice – Jacqueline Durran |
| The Constant Gardener – Claire Simpson* Brokeback Mountain – Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor* Crash – Hughes Winborne* Good Night, and Good Luck – Stephen Mirrione* March of the Penguins – Sabine Emiliani | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Howard Berger, Gregory Nicotero and Nikki Gooley* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Peter Owen and Ivana Primorac* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight and Eithné Fennell* Memoirs of a Geisha – Noriko Watanabe, Kate Biscoe, Lyndell Quiyou and Kelvin R. Trahan* Pride & Prejudice – Fae Hammand |
| Memoirs of a Geisha – John Williams* Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla* The Constant Gardener – Alberto Iglesias* Mrs Henderson Presents – George Fenton* Walk the Line – T Bone Burnett | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Stuart Craig* Batman Begins – Nathan Crowley* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Alex McDowell* King Kong – Grant Major* Memoirs of a Geisha – John Myhre |
| Walk the Line – Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill, Peter Kurland and Donald Sylvester* Batman Begins – David Evans, Stefan Henrix and Peter Lindsay* The Constant Gardener – Joakim Sundström, Stuart Wilson, Mike Prestwood Smith and Sven Taits* Crash – Richard Van Dyke, Sandy Gendler, Adam Jenkins and Marc Fishman* King Kong – Hammond Peek, Christopher Boyes, Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn | King Kong – Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Brian Van't Hul and Richard Taylor* Batman Begins – Janek Sirrs, Dan Glass, Chris Corbould and Paul Franklin* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Nick Davis, Jon Thum, Chas Jarrett and Joss Williams* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney and Scott Farrar* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Jim Mitchell, John Richardson, Tim Webber and Tim Alexander |
| Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Claire Jennings, David Sproxton, Nick Park, Steve Box, Mark Burton and Bob Baker* A Cock and Bull Story – Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom and Frank Cottrell-Boyce* The Constant Gardener – Simon Channing Williams, Fernando Meirelles and Jeffrey Caine* Festival – Christopher Young and Annie Griffin* Pride & Prejudice – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Joe Wright and Deborah Moggach | Pride & Prejudice – Joe Wright * Everything – Richard Hawkins * Festival – Annie Griffin * Shooting Dogs – David Belton * Tsotsi – Peter Fudakowski |
| Fallen Art – Jarek Sawko, Piotr Sikora and Tomasz Bagiński* Film Noir – Osbert Parker* Kamiya's Correspondence – Sumito Sakakibara* The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello – Anthony Lucas, Julia Lucas and Mark Shirrefs* Rabbit – Run Wrake | Antonio's Breakfast – Howard Stogdon, Amber Templemore-Finlayson and Daniel Mulloy* Call Register – Kit Hawkins, Adam Tudhope and Ed Roe* Heavy Metal Drummer – Amanda Boyle and Luke Morris Toby MacDonald* Heydar, an Afghan in Tehran – Homayoun Assadian and Babak Jalali* Lucky – Bex Hopkins and Avie Luthra |
| The Beat That My Heart Skipped – Pascal Caucheteux and Jacques Audiard* Joyeux Noël – Christophe Rossignon and Christian Carion* Kung Fu Hustle – Stephen Chow, Chui Po Chu and Jeffrey Lau* Le Grand Voyage – Humbert Balsan and Ismaël Ferroukhi* Tsotsi – Peter Fudakowski and Gavin Hood | James McAvoy* Chiwetel Ejiofor* Gael García Bernal* Michelle Williams* Rachel McAdams |