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78th Annual

Academy Award Winners

and Nominees
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Winners announced March 5, 2006

Best Picture

  1. Oscar® Winner

    “Crash”

Directing/Director

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Ang Lee
    “Brokeback Mountain”
  2. Bennett Miller
    “Capote”
  3. Paul Haggis
    “Crash”
  4. George Clooney
    “Good Night, and Good Luck”
  5. Steven Spielberg
    “Munich”

Animated Feature Film

  1. Oscar® Winner

    “Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit”
  2. “Howl's Moving Castle”
  3. “Tim Burton's Corpse Bride”

Documentary Feature

  1. Oscar® Winner

    “March of the Penguins”
  2. “Darwin's Nightmare”
  3. “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”
  4. “Murderball”
  5. “Street Fight”

Foreign Language Film

  1. Oscar® Winner

    “Tsotsi”
  2. “Don't Tell”
  3. “Joyeux Noël” / aka Merry Christmas
  4. “Paradise Now”
  5. “Sophie Scholl: The Final Days”

Visual Effects

  1. Oscar® Winner

    King Kong poster
    “King Kong”
  2. “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
  3. “War of the Worlds”

Actor
in a leading role

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Philip Seymour Hoffman
    “Capote”
  2. Terrence Howard
    “Hustle and Flow”
  3. Heath Ledger
    “Brokeback Mountain”
  4. Joaquin Phoenix
    “Walk the Line”
  5. David Strathairn
    “Good Night, and Good Luck”

Actor
in a supporting role

  1. Oscar® Winner

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    George Clooney
    “Syriana”
  2. Matt Dillon
    “Crash”
  3. Paul Giamatti
    “Cinderella Man”
  4. Jake Gyllenhaal
    “Brokeback Mountain”
  5. William Hurt
    “A History of Violence”

Cinematography

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Dion Beebe
    “Memoirs of a Geisha”
  2. Wally Pfister
    “Batman Begins”
  3. Rodrigo Prieto
    “Brokeback Mountain”
  4. Robert Elswit
    “Good Night, and Good Luck”
  5. Emmanuel Lubezki
    “The New World”

Writing
Original Screenplay

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Screenplay by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco / Story by Paul Haggis
    “Crash”
  2. George Clooney and Grant Heslov
    “Good Night, and Good Luck”
  3. Woody Allen
    “Match Point”
  4. Noah Baumbach
    “The Squid and the Whale”
  5. Stephen Gaghan
    “Syriana”

Writing
Adapted Screenplay

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
    “Brokeback Mountain”
  2. Dan Futterman
    “Capote”
  3. Jeffrey Caine
    “The Constant Gardener”
  4. Josh Olson
    “A History of Violence”
  5. Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
    “Munich”

Film Editing

  1. Oscar® Winner

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    Hughes Winborne
    “Crash”
  2. Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
    “Cinderella Man”
  3. Claire Simpson
    “The Constant Gardener”
  4. Michael Kahn
    “Munich”
  5. Michael McCusker
    “Walk the Line”

Sound Mixing

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
    “King Kong”
  2. Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic and Tony Johnson
    “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
  3. Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett
    “Memoirs of a Geisha”
  4. Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Peter F. Kurland
    “Walk the Line”
  5. “War of the Worlds”
    Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins

Actress
in a leading role

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Reese Witherspoon
    “Walk the Line”
  2. Judi Dench
    “Mrs. Henderson Presents”
  3. Felicity Huffman
    “Transamerica”
  4. Keira Knightley
    “Pride and Prejudice”
  5. Charlize Theron
    “North Country”

Actress
in a supporting role

  1. Oscar® Winner

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    Rachel Weisz
    “The Constant Gardener”
  2. Amy Adams
    “Junebug”
  3. Catherine Keener
    “Capote”
  4. Frances McDormand
    “North Country”
  5. Michelle Williams
    “Brokeback Mountain”

Production Design

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Art Direction: John Myhre / Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
    “Memoirs of a Geisha”
  2. Art Direction: Jim Bissell / Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
    “Good Night, and Good Luck”
  3. Art Direction: Stuart Craig / Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
    “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
  4. Art Direction: Grant Major / Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Simon Bright
    “King Kong”
  5. Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood / Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
    “Pride and Prejudice”

Costume Design

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Memoirs of a Geisha poster
    Colleen Atwood
    “Memoirs of a Geisha”
  2. Gabriella Pescucci
    “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”
  3. Sandy Powell
    “Mrs. Henderson Presents”
  4. Jacqueline Durran
    “Pride and Prejudice”
  5. Arianne Phillips
    “Walk the Line”

Makeup and Hairstyling

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Howard Berger and Tami Lane
    “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
  2. David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson
    “Cinderella Man”
  3. Dave Elsey and Nikki Gooley
    “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith”

Music
original score

  1. Oscar® Winner

    Gustavo Santaolalla
    “Brokeback Mountain”
  2. Alberto Iglesias
    “The Constant Gardener”
  3. John Williams
    “Memoirs of a Geisha”
  4. John Williams
    “Munich”
  5. Dario Marianelli
    “Pride and Prejudice”

Sound Editing

  1. Oscar® Winner

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    Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
    “King Kong”
  2. Wylie Stateman
    “Memoirs of a Geisha”
  3. Richard King
    “War of the Worlds”