ROTTEN TOMATOES: 2005 Golden Tomato Awards Winners Announced

2005 Golden Tomato Awards Winners Announced

by Binh Ngo | January 10, 2006

Rotten Tomatoes, the trusted online source for gauging the critical reaction to movies, has announced the 2005 recipients of the Golden Tomato Awards, the site's annual awards given to recognize the year's best-reviewed films.

The awards are not based solely on just the Tomatometer score. We use a weighted formula (Bayesian) to account for variation in the number of reviews per movie. The winners are determined by the rankings after applying said formula. This means between two films with similar Tomatometer scores, the one with more reviews will have a higher ranking.

The Golden Tomato for Best Limited Release Film goes to Warner Independent Pictures and director George Clooney for their McCarthy-era drama, "Good Night, And Good Luck," based on a tally of 167 reviews of the country's top print, broadcast and online film critics.

The Golden Tomato for Best Wide Release Film is awarded to DreamWorks and Aardman Studio's lovable duo of a cheese-obsessed inventor and his faithful companion, the titular heroes of "Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit," based on the reviews of 148 critics across the nation.

Other big winners include Universal Pictures' "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" for Best Comedy, Warner Independent Pictures' "March of the Penquins" for Best Documentary and Sony Pictures Classics' "Kung-Fu Hustle" for Best Foreign Film. A complete list of winners follows.

2005 Winners Complete List:

BEST-REVIEWED WIDE RELEASE:
"Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"

BEST-REVIEWED LIMITED RELEASE:
"Good Night, And Good Luck"

BEST-REVIEWED ACTION/ADVENTURE:
"Batman Begins"

BEST-REVIEWED ANIMATION:
"Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit"

BEST-REVIEWED COMEDY:
"The 40 Year-Old Virgin"

BEST-REVIEWED DRAMA:
"Good Night, And Good Luck"

BEST-REVIEWED HORROR:
"George A. Romero's Land of the Dead"

BEST-REVIEWED KIDS/FAMILY:
"Millions"

BEST-REVIEWED ROMANCE:
"Brokeback Mountain"

BEST-REVIEWED SCI-FI/FANTASY:
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

BEST-REVIEWED DOCUMENTARY:
"March of the Penquins"

BEST-REVIEWED FOREIGN FILM:
"Kung Fu Hustle"

BEST-REVIEWED THRILLER:
"A History of Violence"

Related Items

Movie:	The 40-Year-Old Virgin
	George A. Romero's Land of the Dead
	Millions
	Brokeback Mountain
	Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
	Kung Fu Hustle
	Good Night. And, Good Luck
	A History of Violence

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SuperS writes:
on Jan 10 2006 07:08 PM

Glad History of Violence got an award? Will these winner be gettign a Golden Tomatoe :P

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Matthew writes:
on Jan 10 2006 07:49 PM

Brokeback Mountain in the Romance Category. Interesting.

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mrfridays writes:
on Jan 10 2006 08:04 PM

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Posted 01/10/06 07:49:24 PM by Matthew>>>

What category did you expect it to fall under, Action/Sci-Fci?

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Scott Weinberg writes:
on Jan 10 2006 08:40 PM

Very cool!

Although "Good Night" (which I finally just saw and freaking LoOOoOooved) played in over 800 theaters, and (for my own purposes) anything over 800 counts as semi-wide, not limited. :)

Did you guys discuss doing the same thing for the worst-reviewed movies of the year? Now that'd be even MORE fun!

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SuperS writes:
on Jan 10 2006 08:54 PM

Mr. Fridays said:

What category did you expect it to fall under, Action/Sci-Fci?

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I actually was surprised also... I was actually expecting a drama category for this... but, apparently not.

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The Senhman writes:
on Jan 11 2006 04:57 AM

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Oh, we also count movies with platform releases as limited. "Good Night" started in limited release and slowly expanded.

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puablo writes:
on Jan 11 2006 11:12 AM

[b]Quality List[/b]
Now THIS reads like an awards list should! Forget the reviewing community's top picks, forget the Academy, this is the best "top movies of 2005" list I've seen to date.

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lovelykeira writes:
on Jan 11 2006 12:11 PM

I liked Batman Begins, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Harry Potter but I thought Land of the Dead was pretty bad.

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Skeptic44 writes:
on Jan 11 2006 06:05 PM

I want to be there when you tell the producers of "Brokeback Mountain" that you want to give them a Golden Tomato.

Just curious about what they'll say.

I mean, they MUST have a sense of humor.

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insanemansam5 writes:
on Jan 11 2006 09:15 PM

I guess Wallace and Gromit doesn't qualify as a kid/family film because it is seven percent higher than Millions

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Budda F writes:
on Jan 12 2006 07:22 AM

Each film can only can in one genre (as the rules say) so Wallace and Gromit is under "animated" not "kid/family".

I'm upset that Muderball didn't beat out March of the Penguins... but the scoring system is pretty fair (I'm glad they don't just use the tomatometer). It might be a little better if they would account for the "Average Rating" somewhere in it... but I'll always find something to complain about.

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South_park300 writes:
on Jan 12 2006 08:56 AM

i dont think thats fair to say that it does not fall under "kid/family" because it's "animated." there are so many genres animated films can fall under, it just does not contain live actors in it. So either include them in other lists or make sub-genres fro animation, but I suggest the former or else there will be way too many categories! haha

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zachdybs writes:
on Jan 12 2006 10:31 AM

A good looking list, although i didnt get why the critics liked Land of the Dead. Also wish Murderball would have gotten the Documentary award.

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DJ Jay Lion writes:
on Jan 12 2006 12:52 PM

[b]Land Of The Dead[/b]
BEST-REVIEWED HORROR:
"George A. Romero's Land of the Dead"

I am so glad that George Romero is making his zombie movies for over 35 years and stil knocking out the competition.
This movie was good, even though lots of fanboys disagree, not sure why. Certainly better than that other atrocity by Uwe Boll, I won't even mention the name.
Congratulations, George.

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Insert_witty_name writes:
on Jan 12 2006 01:08 PM

I too was glad to see LOTD win best horror, but not necessarily because I thought it was really good, just because everything that it was up against was really bad. 2005 was a terrible year for horror flicks. I like the rating system. Very fair.

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The Senhman writes:
on Jan 12 2006 01:11 PM

In reply to this comment (#829755)
Our reasoning for limiting one movie to one genre is so that a multi-genre film wouldn't take all of the awards.

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South_park300 writes:
on Jan 12 2006 01:52 PM

yeah, going back and thinking about it, my defense of the animation thing is lame haha. its understandable the way you have it.

i loved Land of the Dead. many STILL dont know who romero is and thought it was a sequel to the Dawn of the Dead remake. Land of the Dead wasnt the best in the Romero series, but it fits in very nicely.

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mrdanny writes:
on Jan 12 2006 03:34 PM

Im glad to see millions make the list. Danny Boyle is probably one of the best film makers of our time ( although the nipple seen does make me wonder how , in american society, this could be a family movie).

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