Nominations for the 78th Annual Academy Awards® were announced today by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar®-winner Mira Sorvino.

Ganis and Sorvino, who won her Academy Award in 1995 for her supporting role in "Mighty Aphrodite," announced ten of the 24 categories live at a 5:30 a.m. news conference attended by over 430 international media.

Academy members selected the nominees in their respective branches, with the exception of the Animated Feature and Foreign Language Film categories, where nominations were selected by vote of screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Ballots were mailed to 5,856 members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the international accounting firm, for tabulation.

Official screenings of all pictures with a nomination will begin this weekend for members at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings in some categories also will be held in the Academy's Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and San Francisco.

The Academy's entire active and life membership is eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them — the two short film, the two documentary and the foreign language film categories — members can vote only after attesting they have seen all of the nominated films in those categories.

Academy Awards® for outstanding film achievements of 2005 will be 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.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
78th Annual Academy Awards Nominations

Best Motion Picture of the Year

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

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

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

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

• 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)
• Tsotsi - Gavin Hood (South Africa)

Best Documentary, Features

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

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• 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.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

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

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• 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

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Best Achievement in Directing

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

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• 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

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

• 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

Best Achievement in Cinematography

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

Best Achievement in Editing

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

Best Achievement in Art Direction

• 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
• Memoirs of a Geisha - John Myhre, Gretchen Rau
• Pride & Prejudice - Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

Best Achievement in Costume Design

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

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

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

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

• 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")

Best Achievement in Makeup

• 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

Best Achievement in Sound

• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic, Tony Johnson
• 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

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

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

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

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

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

• God Sleeps in Rwanda - Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
• 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

Best Short Film, Animated

• Badgered - Sharon Colman
• 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

Best Short Film, Live Action

• 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
• Six Shooter - Martin McDonagh