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78th Annual

Academy Award Winners

and Nominees

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Winners announced March 5, 2006

ALSO AVAILABLE: Winners and nominees announced in…
•2011 •2010 •2009 •2008 •2007 •2006 •2005 •2003 •1997

BEST PICTURE “Crash” ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote” Terrence Howard in “Hustle and Flow” Heath Ledger in “Brokeback Mountain” Joaquin Phoenix in “Walk the Line” David Strathairn in “Good Night, and Good Luck” ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE Reese Witherspoon in “Walk the Line” Judi Dench in “Mrs. Henderson Presents” Felicity Huffman in “Transamerica” Keira Knightley in “Pride and Prejudice” Charlize Theron in “North Country” ANIMATED FEATURE FILM “Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit” “Howl's Moving Castle” “Tim Burton's Corpse Bride” DOCUMENTARY FEATURE “March of the Penguins” “Darwin's Nightmare” “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” “Murderball” “Street Fight” BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM “Tsotsi” “Don't Tell” “Joyeux Noël” Merry Christmas “Paradise Now” “Sophie Scholl: The Final Days” DIRECTING Ang Lee “Brokeback Mountain” Bennett Miller “Capote” Paul Haggis “Crash” George Clooney “Good Night, and Good Luck” Steven Spielberg “Munich” VISUAL EFFECTS “King Kong” “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” “War of the Worlds”		WRITING Original Screenplay “Crash” Screenplay by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco / Story by Paul Haggis “Good Night, and Good Luck” George Clooney and Grant Heslov “Match Point” Woody Allen “The Squid and the Whale” Noah Baumbach “Syriana” Stephen Gaghan WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) “Brokeback Mountain” Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana “Capote” Dan Futterman “The Constant Gardener” Jeffrey Caine “A History of Violence” Josh Olson “Munich” Tony Kushner and Eric Roth ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE George Clooney in “Syriana” Matt Dillon in “Crash” Paul Giamatti in “Cinderella Man” Jake Gyllenhaal in “Brokeback Mountain” William Hurt in “A History of Violence” ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Rachel Weisz in “The Constant Gardener” Amy Adams in “Junebug” Catherine Keener in “Capote” Frances McDormand in “North Country” Michelle Williams in “Brokeback Mountain” 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 ART DIRECTION “Memoirs of a Geisha” Art Direction: John Myhre / Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau “Good Night, and Good Luck” Art Direction: Jim Bissell / Set Decoration: Jan Pascale “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” Art Direction: Stuart Craig / Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan “King Kong” Art Direction: Grant Major / Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Simon Bright “Pride and Prejudice” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood / Set Decoration: Katie Spencer 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 FILM EDITING “Crash” Hughes Winborne “Cinderella Man” Mike Hill and Dan Hanley “The Constant Gardener” Claire Simpson “Munich” Michael Kahn “Walk the Line” Michael McCusker MAKEUP “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” Howard Berger and Tami Lane “Cinderella Man” David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith” Dave Elsey and Nikki Gooley MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) “Brokeback Mountain” Gustavo Santaolalla “The Constant Gardener” Alberto Iglesias “Memoirs of a Geisha” John Williams “Munich” John Williams “Pride and Prejudice” Dario Marianelli SOUND MIXING “King Kong” Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic and Tony Johnson “Memoirs of a Geisha” Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett “Walk the Line” Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Peter F. Kurland “War of the Worlds” Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins SOUND EDITING “King Kong” Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn “Memoirs of a Geisha” Wylie Stateman “War of the Worlds” Richard King