Acting Nods to Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon and Mickey Rourke

NEW YORK, January 16, 2006 -- A History of Violence won three awards including Best Picture in the 9th Annual Online Film Critics Society Awards. The awards were voted by the 138-member Online Film Critics Society, the international professional association of Internet-based cinema journalists.

In addition to Best Picture, A History of Violence won awards for David Cronenberg as Best Director and Maria Bello as Best Supporting Actress.

Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for Capote and Reese Witherspoon won Bes Actress for Walk the Line. Sin City won three awards - Mickey Rourke as Best Supporting Actor and Robert Rodriguez for Best Cinematography and Best Editing. Brokeback Mountain scored two awards: for Best Adapted Screenplay Award and for Best Musical Score.

The German drama Downfall was named Best Foreign-Language Film and Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man was named Best Documentary. The complete winners list for the 9th Annual OFCS Awards are as follows:

Best Picture: A History of Violence
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: Mickey Rourke, Sin City
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Best Original Screenplay: Good Night and Good Luck, George Clooney and Grant Heslov
Best Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana, based on L. Annie Proulx' short story
Best Cinematography: Sin City, Robert Rodriguez
Best Editing: Sin City, Robert Rodriguez
Best Score: Brokeback Mountain, Gustavo Santaolalla
Best Documentary: Grizzly Man
Best Foreign-Language Film: Downfall (Germany)
Best Animated Feature: Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Breakthrough Filmmaker: Paul Haggis, Crash
Breakthrough Performance: Owen Kline, The Squid and the Whale

Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society has been the key force in establishing and raising the standards for Internet-based film journalism. The OFCS membership spans the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific Rim region. The Society's web site, which has been hosted since January 2001 by the highly influential film resource Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com), provides the most comprehensive online listing of reviews and original interviews with the leading artists in today's cinema, plus links to the most important motion picture-related web sites.

For more information, visit the Online Film Critics Society at www.ofcs.org.

For a complete list of the year's nominees, click here. Click Here to Return to Listing of Awards.