Hollywood Reporter
Updated: 8:53 p.m. ET Dec. 11, 2005
LOS ANGELES - Critics' darling "Brokeback Mountain," the upcoming
effects extravaganza "King Kong" and the raucous comedy "The 40-Year-Old
Virgin" are among the 10 films that the American Film Institute has
judged as the most outstanding motion pictures of the year.
The official selections of AFI Awards 2005 for top films and TV programs
were announced Sunday after two days of deliberations by two juries that
selected the year's best in film and television.
The AFI will honor the creative ensembles behind each of the honorees
Jan. 13 at a luncheon at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles.
"AFI is proud to honor these 20 collaborative teams. As the institute
recognizes and celebrates excellence across the century, these honorees
will be part of the record that documents America's enduring cultural
legacy," AFI director and CEO Jean Picker Firstenberg said.
In addition to "Mountain," "Kong" and "Virgin," the movies chosen are
"Capote," "Crash," "Good Night, and Good Luck," "A History of Violence,"
"Munich," "The Squid and the Whale" and "Syriana."
The 10 TV programs are: "24," "Battlestar Galactica," "Deadwood,"
"Grey's Anatomy," "House," "Lost," "Rescue Me," "Sleeper Cell,"
"Sometimes in April" and "Veronica Mars."
The film jury comprised producer Robert G. Rehme, director Martha
Coolidge, critic David Denby, scholar Anna Everett, director Norman
Jewison, producer Tom Pollock, director Jay Roach, critic Lisa
Schwarzbaum, scholar Vivian Sobchack, author David Thomson, critic
Kenneth Turan, scholar Stephen Ujlaki and producer Laura Ziskin.
The TV jury's members were director Marshall Herskovitz, Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences president Dick Askin, writer Lionel Chetwynd,
scholar Mary Corey, producer Tony Jonas, producer Jeffrey Kramer, critic
Melanie McFarland, scholar Tara McPherson, producer Dorothea Petrie,
director Frank Pierson, critic James Poniewozik, writer Del Reisman and
critic Matt Roush.
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