Best actress award winner for "Walk The Line," Reese Witherspoon with best screenplay winner Noah Baumbach for "The Squid and the Whale" with his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh. Accepting her award for best actress, a thrilled Reese Witherspoon explained that she had never won anything before. Baumbach thanked his parents. His mother is a former member of the New York film critics group. He also passed along warm thanks to the group on behalf of he wife Jennifer Jason Leigh, who was honored by the group exactly ten years ago for her role in "Georgia", the infamous "Blizzard of '96" hit 10 years ago, forcing her to miss the ceremony and return to LA to the set of "Hudsucker Proxy," which she was shooting at the time.