Who Won 78th Annual Academy Awards?
Mar 5, 2006
The 78th Academy Awards were held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and were hosted by Jon Stewart. "Crash" edged "Brokeback Mountain" for Best Picture and won a total of three Academy Awards. "Brokeback Mountain" also won three awards, as did "Memoirs of a Geisha", and "King Kong."
| Best Picture | Crash Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, producers |
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| Best Actor | Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) |  |
| Best Actress | Reese Witherspoon (Walk The Line) |  |
| Best Supporting Actor | George Clooney (Syriana) |  |
| Best Supporting Actress | Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) |  |
| Best Director | Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) |  |
| Adapted Screenplay | Brokeback Mountain Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana |
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| Original Screenplay | Crash Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis |
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| Animated Feature Film | Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Nick Park and Steve Box |
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| Foreign Language Film | Tsotsi South Africa |
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| Documentary Feature | March Of The Penguins Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau |
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| Documentary Short | A Note Of Triumph: The Golden Age Of Norman Corwin Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson |
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| Short Film (Live Action) | Six Shooter Martin McDonagh |
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| Short Film (Animated) | The Moon And The Son: An Imagined Conversation John Canemaker and Peggy Stern |
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| Film Editing | Crash Hughes Winborne |
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| Cinematography | Memoirs Of A Geisha Dion Beebe |
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| Costume Design | Memoirs Of A Geisha Colleen Atwood |
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| Makeup | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Howard Berger and Tami Lane |
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| Art Direction | Memoirs Of A Geisha Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau |
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| Sound Editing | King Kong Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn |
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| Sound Mixing | King Kong Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek |
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| Visual Effects | King Kong Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor |
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| Original Score | Brokeback Mountain Gustavo Santaolalla, Composer |
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| Original Song | "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp" (Hustle And Flow) Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard |
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