The seventy-eighth Academy Awards ceremony was held on Sunday, March 5, 2006 at the Kodak Theatre. The host was comedian Jon Stewart.
The 2205 Academy Award Winners
Picture: CrashActor: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Actress: Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
Supporting Actor: George Clooney (Syriana)
Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)
Director: Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain
Original Screenplay: Crash
Song: "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" (Hustle & Flow)
Score: Brokeback Mountain
Cinematography: Memoirs of a Geisha
Costume Design: Memoirs of a Geisha
Art / Set Decoration: Memoirs of a Geisha
Film Editing: Crash
Foreign Language Film: Tsotsi
Animated Feature Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Sound Editing: King Kong
Sound Mixing: King Kong
Makeup: Chronicles of Narnia
Visual Effects: King Kong
Short Films: The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (Animated) / Six Shooter (Live-Action)
Documentaries: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin / La Marche de l'empereur

