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Add the andPOP Facebook Application(andPOP) - Get out your binoculars and start considering your bets - the Oscar race is on.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Broadcast Film Critics Association have respectively announced winners and nominees, Reuters reports.
The LAFCA declared Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain the best picture of 2005, and also honoured Lee as best director.
Capote was also a multiple winner, with Philip Seymour Hoffman picking up a best actor award for the title role and Catherine Keener being named best supporting actress. Writer Dan Futterman also tied for best screenplay with Noah Baumbach of The Squid and the Whale.
The most surprising win went to Vera Farmiga as best actress for her performance in indie film Down to the Bone, so remember her name. The movie, directed by Debra Granik, won a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
William Hurt's short appearance in A History of Violence garnered him a best supporting actor nod.
The awards noticeably neglected big-budget studio films, because although movies like King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha and Munich did receive votes, none came close to the final playoffs, so to speak.
The LAFCA also hands out a New Generation award, which goes to a newcomer in cinema. This year's breakout actor is Terrence Howard, who was also recognized by the Broadcast Film Critics Association with a best actor nomination for his starring role in Hustle & Flow, a supporting actor nomination for Crash, and a best song nomination for performing the title song in Hustle.
Brokeback Mountain dominated the 11th annual Critics' Choice Awards, which are voted on by the BFCA. The movie received eight nominations including best picture, best director, best actor (Heath Ledger), best supporting actor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and best supporting actress (Michelle Williams).
Paul Haggis' Crash, also a best picture nominee, received six nominations. Walk the Line, Capote and Cinderella Man each got four.
You can see the rest of the nominees at http://www.bfca.org/NomineesWinners.asp before winners are announced on January 9.
