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The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006) (TV)

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• First time since 1957 that each of the top 6 awards - Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress - went to 6 different movies. These were respectively Crash (2004/I), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Capote (2005), Walk the Line (2005), Syriana (2005) and The Constant Gardener (2005).
  
  
• First time since 1962 that the four acting winners (Best Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Best Actress (Reese Witherspoon), Best Supporting Actor (George Clooney), and Best Supporting Actress (Rachel Weisz)) were all first-time nominees.
  
  
• By the time the ceremony took place, the Best Documentary, Features winner Marche de l'empereur, La (2005) had out-grossed all 5 Best Picture nominees.
  
  

• Each of the movies nominated for Best Picture also received an Oscar-nomination for their respective directors.
  
  

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