Best Motion Picture of the Year

WINNER

Crash: Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman

NOMINEES

Brokeback Mountain: Diana Ossana, James Schamus

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Capote: Caroline Baron, William Vince, Michael Ohoven

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Good Night, and Good Luck.: Grant Heslov

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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

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Good Night, and Good Luck.: David Strathairn

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Hustle & Flow: Terrence Howard

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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

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North Country: Charlize Theron

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Pride & Prejudice: Keira Knightley

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Transamerica: Felicity Huffman

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

Syriana: George Clooney

NOMINEES

Brokeback Mountain: Jake Gyllenhaal

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Cinderella Man: Paul Giamatti

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Crash: Matt Dillon

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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

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Capote: Catherine Keener

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Junebug: Amy Adams

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North Country: Frances McDormand

Best Achievement in Directing

WINNER

Brokeback Mountain: Ang Lee

NOMINEES

Capote: Bennett Miller

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Crash: Paul Haggis

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Good Night, and Good Luck.: George Clooney

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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

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Match Point: Woody Allen

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The Squid and the Whale: Noah Baumbach

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Syriana: Stephen Gaghan

Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay

WINNER

Brokeback Mountain: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana

NOMINEES

Capote: Dan Futterman

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The Constant Gardener: Jeffrey Caine

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A History of Violence: Josh Olson

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Munich: Tony Kushner, Eric Roth

Best Achievement in Cinematography

WINNER

Memoirs of a Geisha: Dion Beebe

NOMINEES

Batman Begins: Wally Pfister

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Brokeback Mountain: Rodrigo Prieto

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Good Night, and Good Luck.: Robert Elswit

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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)

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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Stuart Craig (art director), Stephenie McMillan (set decorator)

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King Kong: Grant Major (art director), Dan Hennah (set decorator), Simon Bright (set decorator)

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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

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Mrs Henderson Presents: Sandy Powell

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Pride & Prejudice: Jacqueline Durran

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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

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Memoirs of a Geisha: Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline, John Pritchett

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Walk the Line: Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill, Peter F. Kurland

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War of the Worlds: Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ron Judkins

Best Achievement in Film Editing

WINNER

Crash: Hughes Winborne

NOMINEES

The Constant Gardener: Claire Simpson

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Walk the Line: Michael McCusker

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Munich: Michael Kahn

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Cinderella Man: Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

WINNER

King Kong: Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn

NOMINEES

Memoirs of a Geisha: Wylie Stateman

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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

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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

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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".

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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

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Memoirs of a Geisha: John Williams

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Munich: John Williams

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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

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Badgered: Sharon Colman

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The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello: Anthony Lucas

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One Man Band: Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER

Six Shooter: Martin McDonagh

NOMINEES

The Runaway: Ulrike Grote

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Cashback: Sean Ellis, Lene Bausager

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Our Time Is Up: Rob Pearlstein, Pia Clemente

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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

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The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club: Dan Krauss

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The Mushroom Club: Steven Okazaki

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

March of the Penguins: Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau

NOMINEES

Darwin's Nightmare: Hubert Sauper

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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room: Alex Gibney, Jason Kliot

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Murderball: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro

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Street Fight: Marshall Curry

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

WINNER

Tsotsi
South Africa.

NOMINEES

Don't Tell
Italy.

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Joyeux Noel
France.

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Paradise Now
Palestine.

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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

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Howl's Moving Castle: Hayao Miyazaki

WINNER

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

WINNER

Don Hall

WINNER

Not awarded.

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.

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Anatoliy Kokush, Yuriy Popovsky, Oleksiy Zolotarov
For the concept and development of the Russian Arm gyro-stabilized camera crane and the Flight Head.

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Anatoliy Kokush
For the concept and development of the Cascade series of motion picture cranes.

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Garrett Brown
For the original concept of the Skycam flying camera system - the first use of 3D volumetric cable technology for motion picture cinematography.

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David Baraff, Michael Kass, Andy Witkin
For their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures.

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Laurie Frost, Peter Hannan, Richard Loncraine
For the development of the remote camera head known as the Hot-Head.

WINNERS

Gary Thieltges
For the design and development of the remotely-operated, lightweight camera head known as the Sparrow Head.

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Frank Fletcher, Dave Sherwin
For the introduction and continuing development of the Power Pod modular camera head system.

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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.

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Scott Leva
For the design and development of the Precision Stunt Airbag for motion picture stunt falls.

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Lev Yevstratov, George Peters, Vasiliy Orlov
For the development of the Ultimate Arm Camera Crane System for specialized vehicle photography.

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James Rodnunsky, Alex MacDonald, Mark Chapman
For the development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.

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Tim Drnec, Ben Britten Smith, Matt Davis
For the development of the Spydercam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.

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John Platt, Demetri Terzopoulos
For their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures.

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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.

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Harold Rattray, Terry Claborn, Steve Garlick, Bill Hogue, Tim Reynolds
For the design, engineering and implementation of the Technicolor Real Time Answer Print System.

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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.

WINNER

Gary Demos