78th Academy Awards (2006)

The 78th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2005. The award ceremony was held on 5th March 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. Jon Stewart was the anchor of the show. The nominees were announced on 31st January 2006 by Academy president Sid Ganis and actress Mira Sorvino, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters. Brokeback Mountain, Crash, King Kong and Memoirs of a Geisha were the movies to win maximum awards.
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Best Picture

Crash - Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman
Brokeback Mountain - Diana Ossana, James Schamus
Capote - Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven
Good Night, and Good Luck - Grant Heslov
Munich - Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Barry Mendel

Best Director

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

Best Original Screenplay

Crash - Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco
Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney, Grant Heslov
Match Point - Woody Allen
The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach
Syriana - Stephen Gaghan

Best Adapted Screenplay

Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Capote - Dan Futterman
The Constant Gardener - Jeffrey Caine
A History of Violence - Josh Olson
Munich - Tony Kushner, Eric Roth

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Capote - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Hustle And Flow - Terrence Howard
Brokeback Mountain - Heath Ledger
Walk the Line - Joaquin Phoenix
Good Night, and Good Luck - David Strathairn

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Walk the Line - Reese Witherspoon
Mrs. Henderson Presents - Judi Dench
Transamerica - Felicity Huffman
Pride And Prejudice - Keira Knightley
North Country - Charlize Theron

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

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

Best Art Direction

Memoirs of a Geisha - John Myhre, Gretchen Rau
Good Night, and Good Luck - James D Bissell, Jan Pascale
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
King Kong - Grant Major, Dan Hennah, Simon Bright
Pride & Prejudice - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Best Cinematography

Memoirs of a Geisha - Dion Beebe
Batman Begins - Wally Pfister
Brokeback Mountain - Rodrigo Prieto
Good Night, and Good Luck - Robert Elswit
The New World - Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Original Song

Hustle And Flow for "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"
Crash for "In the Deep"
Transamerica for "Travelin Thru"

Best Original Score

Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich
Pride And Prejudice

Best Sound Mixing

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

Best Sound Editing

King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
War of the Worlds

Best Visual Effects

King Kong - Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, Richard Taylor
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney, Scott Farrar
War of the Worlds - Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra, Daniel Sudick

Best Costume Design

Memoirs of a Geisha - Colleen Atwood
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Gabriella Pescucci
Mrs. Henderson Presents - Sandy Powell
Pride And Prejudice - Jacqueline Durran
Walk the Line - Arianne Phillips

Best Makeup

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Howard Berger, Tami Lane
Cinderella Man - David LeRoy Anderson, Lance Anderson
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - Dave Elsey, Nikki Gooley

Best Animated Feature

Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Howl's Moving Castle
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride

Best Animated Short Film

The Moon and the Son - An Imagined Conversation
Badgered
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
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One Man Band

Best Documentary Feature

March of the Penguins
Darwin's Nightmare
Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room
Murderball
Street Fight

Best Documentary Short Subject

A Note of Triumph - The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
The Death of Kevin Carter - Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
God Sleeps in Rwanda
The Mushroom Club - Steven Okazaki

Best Foreign Language Film

Tsotsi
Don't Tell
Joyeux Noel
Paradise Now
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days

Academy Honorary Award

Robert Altman

Best Live Action Short Film

Six Shooter
Ausreisser
Cashback
The Last Farm
Our Time is Up - Rob Pearlstein, Pia Clemente

Best Film Editing

Crash
Cinderella Man
The Constant Gardener
Munich
Walk the Line
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