Home About Us Ad Info Coming Soon Your Account Feedback The Marquee Movie Links News and Events Now Showing Reader Reviews VIP Service

News & Events

Academy Award® Winners

Crash was the surprise winner for Best Motion Picture and netted two more Oscars.
Related Links
Search for Nominated Movies Now Playing Official Site of the Academy Awards

March 5th, 2006

The Academy Awards® for outstanding film achievements of 2005 were presented on Sunday, March 5, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST.

The telecast was hosted this year by comedian Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" with an introduction featuring past hosts Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, David Letterman, and Whoopi Golderg.

Presenters included Jack Nicholson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Eric Bana, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Stiller, John Travolta, Ziyi Zhang, Hilary Swank, Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Alba, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Keanu Reeves, Will Ferrell, Queen Latifah, Terrence Howard, Meryl Streep, Will Smith, Steve Carell, Nicole Kidman, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Uma Thurman, Charlize Theron, Naomi Watts, Lily Tomlin, Reese Witherspoon, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek.

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

• Corpse Bride - Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
• Howl's Moving Castle - Hayao Miyazaki
• Winner - Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Steve Box, Nick Park

• La Bestia nel cuore (Don't Tell) - Cristina Comencini (Italy)
• Joyeux Noël - Christian Carion (France)
• Paradise Now - Hany Abu-Assad (Palestine)
• Sophie Scholl - The Final Days - Marc Rothemund (Germany)
• Winner - Tsotsi - Gavin Hood (South Africa)

• Darwin's Nightmare - Hubert Sauper
• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room - Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot
• Winner - March of the Penguins - Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau
• Murderball - Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
• Street Fight - Marshall Curry

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

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

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

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

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

• Winner - 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

• Winner - 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

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

• Cinderella Man - Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
• The Constant Gardener - Claire Simpson
• Winner - Crash - Hughes Winborne
• Munich - Michael Kahn
• Walk the Line - Michael McCusker

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

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

• Winner - Brokeback Mountain - Gustavo Santaolalla
• The Constant Gardener - Alberto Iglesias
• Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams
• Munich - John Williams
• Pride & Prejudice - Dario Marianelli

• Winner - Hustle & Flow - Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard ("It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp")
• Crash - Michael Becker, Kathleen York ("In the Deep")
• Transamerica - Dolly Parton ("Travelin' Thru")

• Winner - 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, Annette Miles

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic, Tony Johnson
• Winner - King Kong - Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek
• 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

• Winner - King Kong - Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn
• Memoirs of a Geisha - Wylie Stateman
• War of the Worlds - Richard King

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

• God Sleeps in Rwanda - Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
• Winner - A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin - Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson
• The Life of Kevin Carter - Dan Krauss
• The Mushroom Club - Steven Okazaki

• Badgered - Sharon Colman
• Winner - The Moon and the Son - John Canemaker, Peggy Stern
• The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello - Anthony Lucas
• 9 - Shane Acker
• One Man Band- Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez

• Ausreißer (The Runaway) - Ulrike Grote
• Cashback - Sean Ellis, Lene Bausager
• The Last Farm (Síðasti bærinn í dalnum) - Rúnar Rúnarsson, Þórir Snær Sigurjónsson
• Our Time Is Up - Rob Pearlstein, Pia Clemente
• Winner - Six Shooter - Martin McDonagh