Academy Awards 2006

Best Motion Picture of the Year

WINNER:
Crash: Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman

NOMINEES:
Brokeback Mountain: Diana Ossana, James Schamus
Capote: Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven
Good Night, and Good Luck.: Grant Heslov
Munich: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg, Barry Mendel

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Capote: Philip Seymour Hoffman

NOMINEES:
Brokeback Mountain: Heath Ledger
Good Night, and Good Luck.: David Strathairn
Hustle & Flow: Terrence Howard
Walk the Line: Joaquin Phoenix

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER:
Walk the Line: Reese Witherspoon

NOMINEES:
Mrs Henderson Presents: Judi Dench
North Country: Charlize Theron
Pride & Prejudice: Keira Knightley
Transamerica: Felicity Huffman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
Syriana: George Clooney

NOMINEES:
Brokeback Mountain: Jake Gyllenhaal
Cinderella Man: Paul Giamatti
Crash: Matt Dillon
A History of Violence: William Hurt

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER:
The Constant Gardener: Rachel Weisz

NOMINEES:
Brokeback Mountain: Michelle Williams
Capote: Catherine Keener
Junebug: Amy Adams
North Country: Frances McDormand

Best Achievement in Directing

WINNER:
Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee

NOMINEES:
Capote: Bennett Miller
Crash: Paul Haggis
Good Night, and Good Luck.: George Clooney
Munich: Steven Spielberg

Best Writing, Original Screenplay

WINNER:
Crash: Paul Haggis (screenplay/story), Robert Moresco (screenplay)

NOMINEES:
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, Adapted Screenplay

WINNER:
Brokeback Mountain: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana

NOMINEES:
Capote: Dan Futterman
The Constant Gardener: Jeffrey Caine
A History of Violence: Josh Olson
Munich: Tony Kushner, Eric Roth

Best Achievement in Cinematography

WINNER:
Memoirs of a Geisha: Dion Beebe

NOMINEES:
Batman Begins: Wally Pfister
Brokeback Mountain: Rodrigo Prieto
Good Night, and Good Luck.: Robert Elswit
The New World: Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Achievement in Art Direction

WINNER:
Memoirs of a Geisha: John Myhre (art director), Gretchen Rau (set decorator)

NOMINEES:
Good Night, and Good Luck.: James D. Bissell (art director), Jan Pascale (set decorator)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Stuart Craig (art director), Stephanie McMillan (set decorator)
King Kong: Grant Major (art director), Dan Hennah (set decorator), Simon Bright (set decorator)
Pride & Prejudice: Sarah Greenwood (art director), Katie Spencer (set decorator)

Best Achievement in Costume Design

WINNER:
Memoirs of a Geisha: Colleen Atwood

NOMINEES:
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Gabriella Pescucci
Mrs Henderson Presents: Sandy Powell
Pride & Prejudice: Jacqueline Durran
Walk the Line: Arianne Phillips

Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

WINNER:
King Kong: Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek

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

WINNER:
Crash: Hughes Winborne

NOMINEES:
Cinderella Man: Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
The Constant Gardener: Claire Simpson
Munich: Michael Kahn
Walk the Line: Michael McCusker

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

WINNER:
King Kong: Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn

NOMINEES:
Memoirs of a Geisha: Wylie Stateman
War of the Worlds: Richard King

Best Achievement in Visual Effects

WINNER:
King Kong: Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, Richard Taylor

NOMINEES:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney, Scott Farrar
War of the Worlds: Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra, Daniel Sudick

Best Achievement in Makeup

WINNER:
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Howard Berger, Tami Lane

NOMINEES:
Cinderella Man: David LeRoy Anderson, Lance Anderson
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith: Dave Elsey, Nikki Gooley

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

WINNER:
Hustle & Flow: Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard
For the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp".

NOMINEES:
Crash: Kathleen York (music/lyrics), Michael Becker (music)
For the song "In the Deep".
Transamerica: Dolly Parton
For the song "Travelin' Thru".

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

WINNER:
Brokeback Mountain: Gustavo Santaolalla

NOMINEES:
The Constant Gardener: Alberto Iglesias
Memoirs of a Geisha: John Williams
Munich: John Williams
Pride & Prejudice: Dario Marianelli

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER:
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation: John Canemaker, Peggy Stern

NOMINEES:
9: Shane Acker
Badgered: Sharon Colman
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello: Anthony Lucas
One Man Band: Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER:
Six Shooter: Martin McDonagh

NOMINEES:
The Runaway: Ulrike Grote
Cashback: Sean Ellis, Lene Bausager
Our Time Is Up: Rob Pearlstein, Pia Clemente
The Last Farm: Rúnar Rúnarsson, Thor Sigurjonsson

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER:
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin: Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson

NOMINEES:
God Sleeps in Rwanda: Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
The Life of Kevin Carter: Dan Krauss
The Mushroom Club: Steven Okazaki

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER:
The Emperor's Journey: Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau

NOMINEES:
Darwin's Nightmare: Hubert Sauper
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot
Murderball: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Street Fight: Marshall Curry

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WINNER:
Tsotsi
South Africa.

NOMINEES:
La bestia nel cuore
Italy.
Happy Christmas
France.
Paradise Now
Palestine.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Germany.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

WINNER:
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: Steve Box, Nick Park

NOMINEES:
Corpse Bride: Tim Burton, Mike Johnson
Howl's Moving Castle: Hayao Miyazaki

Honorary Award:

WINNER:
Robert Altman
For a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike.

Medal of Commendation

WINNER:
Don Hall

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER:

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS:
David Grober, Scott Lewallen
For the concept and mechanical design (Grober) and for the electronic and software design (Lewallen) of the Perfect Horizon camera stabilization head.
Anatoliy Kokush, Yuriy Popovsky, Oleksiy Zolotarov
For the concept and development of the Russian Arm gyro-stabilized camera crane and the Flight Head.
Anatoliy Kokush
For the concept and development of the Cascade series of motion picture cranes.
Garrett Brown
For the original concept of the Skycam flying camera system - the first use of 3D volumetric cable technology for motion picture cinematography.
David Baraff, Michael Kass, Andy Witkin
For their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures.
Laurie Frost, Peter Hannan, Richard Loncraine
For the development of the remote camera head known as the Hot-Head.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS:
Gary Thieltges
For the design and development of the remotely-operated, lightweight camera head known as the Sparrow Head.
Frank Fletcher, Dave Sherwin
For the introduction and continuing development of the Power Pod modular camera head system.
Alvah J. Miller, Michael Sorensen, J. Walt Adamczyk
For the design and development of the Aerohead motion control camera head and the J-Viz Pre-Visualization system.
Scott Leva
For the design and development of the Precision Stunt Airbag for motion picture stunt falls.
Lev Yevstratov, George Peters, Vasiliy Orlov
For the development of the Ultimate Arm Camera Crane System for specialized vehicle photography.
James Rodnunsky, Alex MacDonald, Mark Chapman
For the development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.
Tim Drnec, Ben Britten Smith, Matt Davis
For the development of the Spydercam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.
John Platt, Demetri Terzopoulos
For their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures.
Ed Catmull, Tony DeRose, Jos Stam
For the original concept (Catmull) and the scientific and practical implementation (DeRose/Stam) of subdivision surfaces as a modeling technique in motion picture production.
Harold Rattray, Terry Claborn, Steve Garlick, Bill Hogue, Tim Reynolds
For the design, engineering and implementation of the Technicolor Real Time Answer Print System.
Udo Schauss, Hildegard Ebbesmeier, Nicole Wemken, Michael Anderer
For the optical design (Schauss/Ebbesmeier) and the mechanical design (Wemken/Anderer) of the Cinelux Premiere Cinema Projection Lenses.

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

WINNER:
Gary Demos

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