Recap / Seventy Eighth Academy Awards

The 78th Academy Awards

Host: Jon Stewart

Air Date: March 5, 2006

Best Picture

• Crash (winner)
• Brokeback Mountain
• Capote
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Munich

Best Actor

• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote (winner)
• Terrence Howard - Hustle & Flow
• Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
• Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
• David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck.

Best Actress

• Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line (winner)
• Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents
• Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
• Keira Knightley - Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Charlize Theron - North Country

Best Supporting Actor

• George Clooney - Syriana (winner)
• Matt Dillon - Crash
• Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
• Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
• William Hurt - A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actress

• Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener (winner)
• Amy Adams - Junebug
• Catherine Keener - Capote
• Frances McDormand - North Country
• Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain

Best Director

• Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain (winner)
• Bennett Miller - Capote
• Paul Haggis - Crash
• George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Steven Spielberg - Munich

Best Original Screenplay

• Crash (winner)
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Match Point
• The Squid and the Whale
• Syriana

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Brokeback Mountain (winner)
• Capote
• The Constant Gardener
• A History of Violence
• Munich

Best Animated Feature Film

• The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (winner)
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Corpse Bride

Best Foreign Language Film

• Tsotsi (winner)
• Don't Tell
• Joyeux Noël
• Paradise Now
• Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Best Documentary (feature)

• March of the Penguins (winner)
• Darwins Nightmare
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
• Murderball
• Street Fight

Best Documentary (short subject)

• A Note Of Triumph The Golden Age Of Norman Marrinan (winner)
• The Death Of Kevin Carter Casualty Of The Bang Bang Club
• God Sleeps In Rwanda
• The Mushroom Club

Best Short Film (Live-Action)

• Six Shooter (winner)
• Cashback
• The Last Farm
• Our Time Up
• The Runaway

Best Short Film (Animated)

• The Moon And The Son An Imagined Convesation (winner)
• 9
• Badgered
• The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
• One-Man Band

Best Original Score

• Brokeback Mountain (winner)
• The Constant Gardener
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Munich
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Best Original Song

• '''"It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" - Hustle & Flow (winner)
• "In the Deep" - Crash
• "Travelin' Thru" - Transamerica

Best Sound Editing

• King Kong (2005) (winner)
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• War of the Worlds (2005)

Best Sound Mixing

• King Kong (2005) (winner)
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Walk the Line
• War of the Worlds (2005)

Best Art Direction

• Memoirs of a Geisha (winner)
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• King Kong (2005)
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Best Cinematography

• Memoirs of a Geisha (winner)
• Batman Begins
• Brokeback Mountain
• Good Night, and Good Luck.
• The New World (2005)

Best Makeup

• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (winner)
• Cinderella Man
• Revenge of the Sith

Best Costume Design

• Memoirs of a Geisha (winner)
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Mrs Henderson Presents
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Walk the Line

Best Film Editing

• Crash (winner)
• Cinderella Man
• The Constant Gardener
• Munich
• Walk the Line

Best Visual Effects

• King Kong (2005) (winner)
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• War of the Worlds (2005)

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