Manhattan User's Guide - Award Winners

arts 06.7.05

Award Winners

Academy Awards
Best Picture: Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jamie Foxx, Ray
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby

AVN Awards
[Adult Video]
Best Film: The Masseuse

Cannes Film Festival
Palme d'Or: L'Enfant, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Grand Prix: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch

CFDA Awards
[Fashion]
Womenswear Designer of the Year: Vera Wang
Menswear Designer of the Year: John Varvatos

Edgar Awards
[Mystery]
Best Novel: California Girl by T. Jefferson Parker

Emmy Awards
Outstanding Comedy Series: Arrested Development
Outstanding Drama Series: The Sopranos

Grammy Awards
Record of the Year: Here We Go Again by Ray Charles and Norah Jones
Album of the Year: Genius Loves Company
Song of the Year: Daughters by John Mayer
Best New Artist: Maroon5

Hugo Awards
[Science Fiction]
Novel: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold

Interactive Achievement Awards
[Computer Games]
Game of the Year: Half-Life 2

James Beard Awards
[Food]
Outstanding Chef Award: Mario Batali, Babbo
Best NYC Chef: Andrew Carmellini, Cafe Boulud
Best New Restaurant: Per Se
Rising Star Chef of the Year: Christopher Lee, Striped Bass (Philadelphia)

Man Booker Prize
[Fiction]
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

MTV Movie Awards
Best Movie: Napoleon Dynamite

National Book Awards
Fiction: The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck
Nonfiction: Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle

National Book Critics Circle Award
Fiction: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
General Nonfiction: The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch

National Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Film: Million Dollar Baby

Newbery Medal
[Children's Books]
Best Book: Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

Nobel Prize
[Literature] Elfriede Jelinek

Olivier Awards
[British Theatre]
Best New Play: The History Boys by Alan Bennett
Best New Musical: The Producers

Pulitzer Prize
[Fiction] Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
[History] Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
[Biography] de Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
[Poetry] Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser
[Non-Fiction] Ghost Wars by Steve Coll
[Music] Second Concerto for Orchestra by Steven Stucky
[Drama] Doubt by John Patrick Shanley

Pritzker Architecture Prize
Thom Mayne

Tony Awards
Best Play: Doubt
Best Musical: Spamalot
Best Original Score: The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel

Whitbread Prize
[Books]
Book of the Year: Small Island by Andrea Levy

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