DarkEyez: Academy Awards 2006

Monday, March 06, 2006

As you probably already know the 78th Annual Academy Awards was held last night. The biggest suprise was that Crash won Best Motion Picture of the Year instead of Brokeback Mountain. Other winners were Reese Witherspoon (best actress) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (best actor).

Here are all the winners:

Crash (Best Motion Picture of the Year), (Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) & (Best Achievement in Editing)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role)
Reese Witherspoon (Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role)
George Clooney (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role)
Rachel Weisz (Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role)
Ang Lee (Best Achievement in Directing - Brokeback Mountain)
Brokeback Mountain (Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published), (Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Best Achievement in Cinematography), (Best Achievement in Art Direction) & (Best Achievement in Costume Design)
Hustle & Flow (Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Best Achievement in Makeup)
King Kong (Best Achievement in Sound), (Best Achievement in Sound Editing) & (Best Achievement in Visual Effects)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Best Animated Feature Film of the Year)
Tsotsi (Best Foreign Language Film of the Year)
March of the Penguins (Best Documentary, Features)
A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (Best Documentary, Short Subjects)
The Moon and the Son (Best Short Film, Animated)
Six Shooter (Best Short Film, Live Action)