The 78th Annual Academy Award Winners

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BEST PICTURE
Crash


ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Ang Lee, “Brokeback Mountain”


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Paul Haggis & Robert Moresco, “Crash”


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, “Brokeback Mountain”


ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dion Beebe, “Memoirs of a Geisha”


BEST FILM EDITING
Hughes Winborne “Crash”


BEST ACTRESS
Reese Witherspoon, “Walk the Line”


BEST ACTOR
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Capote”


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
George Clooney, “Syriana”


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rachel Weisz, “The Constant Gardener”


BEST ART DIRECTION
Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau, “Memoirs of a Geisha”


ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
Colleen Atwood, “Memoirs of a Geisha”


ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
Howard Berger & Tami Lane, “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe”


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Gustavo Santaolalla, “Brokeback Mountain”


BEST ORIGINAL SONG
‘Hard Out Here for a Pimp’ – Music & Lyrics by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard Hustle & Flow


ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
Mike Hopkins & Ethan Van der Ryn, “King Kong”


ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek King Kong


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers & Richard Taylor, “King Kong”


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit


BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation


BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Tsotsi (South Africa)


BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
Six Shooter


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
March of the Penguins


BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

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This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.


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