Mar 5, 2006
The 78th Academy Awards were held March 5, 2006 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."
78th Academy Awards Winners
| Best Picture | |
| Crash |    |
| Paul Haggis; Cathy Schulman | |
| Other Nominees: Brokeback Mountain; Capote; Good Night and Good Luck; Munich | |
| Best Actor | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) |  |
| Other Nominees: 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) |  |
| Other Nominees: Judi Dench (Mrs Henderson Presents); Felicity Huffman (Transamerica); Keira Knightley (Pride & Prejudice); Charlize Theron (North Country) | |
| Best Director | |
| Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) |  |
| Other Nominees: Bennett Miller (Capote); Paul Haggis (Crash); George Clooney (Good Night and Good Luck); Steven Spielberg (Munich) | |
| Best Supporting Actor | |
| George Clooney (Syriana) |  |
| Other Nominees: 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) | |
| Other Nominees: Amy Adams (Junebug); Catherine Keener (Capote); Frances McDormand (North Country); Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) | |
| Writing | |
| Brokeback Mountain | |
| Larry McMurtry; Diana Ossana | |
| Other Nominees: Capote; The Constant Gardener; A History of Violence; Munich | |
| Writing | |
| Crash | |
| Paul Haggis; Bobby Moresco | |
| Other Nominees: Good Night and Good Luck; Match Point; The Squid and the Whale; Syriana | |
| Art Direction | |
| Memoirs Of A Geisha |  |
| John Myhre; Gretchen Rau | |
| Other Nominees: Good Night and Good Luck; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; King Kong; Pride & Prejudice | |
| Cinematography | |
| Memoirs Of A Geisha | |
| Dion Beebe | |
| Other Nominees: Batman Begins; Brokeback Mountain; Good Night and Good Luck; The New World | |
| Film Editing | |
| Crash | |
| Hughes Winbourne | |
| Other Nominees: Cinderella Man; The Constant Gardener; Munich; Walk the Line | |
| Animated Feature Film | |
| Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit |  |
| Nick Park; Steve Box | |
| Other Nominees: Howl's Moving Castle; Tim Burton's Corpse Bride | |
| Foreign Language Film | |
| Tsotsi | |
| South Africa | |
| Other Nominees: Don't Tell (Italy); Joyeux Noel (France); Paradise Now (Palestine); Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Germany) | |
| Documentary Feature | |
| March Of The Penguins |  |
| Luc Jacquet; Yves Darondeau | |
| Other Nominees: Darwin's Nightmare; Enron: The Smartest Guys In the Room; Murderball; Street Fight | |
| Documentary Short | |
| A Note Of Triumph: The Golden Age Of Norman Corwin | |
| Corinne Marrinan; Eric Simonson | |
| Other Nominees: The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club; God Sleeps In Rwanda; The Mushroom Club | |
| Short Subject Animated | |
| The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation | |
| John Canemaker; Peggy Stern | |
| Other Nominees: Badgered; The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello; 9; One Man Band | |
| Short Subject Live Action | |
| Six Shooter | |
| Martin McDonagh | |
| Other Nominees: Ausreisser; Cashback; The Last Farm; Our Time Is Up | |
| Costume Design | |
| Memoirs Of A Geisha | |
| Colleen Atwood | |
| Other Nominees: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Mrs Henderson Presents; Pride and Prejudice; Walk the Line | |
| Makeup | |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe |  |
| Howard Berger; Tami Lane | |
| Other Nominees: Cinderella Man; Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith | |
| Sound Editing | |
| King Kong |  |
| Mike Hopkins; Ethan Van der Ryn | |
| Other Nominees: Memoirs of a Geisha; War of the Worlds | |
| Sound Mixing | |
| King Kong | |
| Christopher Boyes; Michael Semanick; Michael Hedges; Hammond Peek | |
| Other Nominees: The Chronicles of Narnia; Memoirs of a Geisha; Walk the Line; War of the Worlds | |
| Visual Effects | |
| King Kong | |
| Joe Letteri; Brian Van’t Hul; Christian Rivers; Richard Taylor | |
| Other Nominees: The Chronicles of Narnia; War of the Worlds | |
| Original Score | |
| Brokeback Mountain |  |
| Gustavo Santaolalla | |
| Other Nominees: The Constant Gardener; Memoirs of a Geisha; Munich; Pride and Prejudice | |
| Original Song | |
| It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp (Hustle And Flow) | |
| Jordan Houston; Cedric Coleman; Paul Beauregard | |
| Other Nominees: In the Deep (Crash); Travelin' Through (Transamerica) | |
| Special Award | |
| Robert Altman (Recognition of a career that repeatedly reinvented the art form) | |
Movie Trailer for 'Crash'
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