78th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (2006)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Sunday, March 5, 2006
  • For films released in: 2005
  • Nominations Announcement: Tuesday, January 31, 2006
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 78th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • Brokeback Mountain
    Diana Ossana [Producer] and James Schamus [Producer]
  • Capote
    Caroline Baron [Producer], William Vince [Producer] and Michael Ohoven [Producer]
  • Crash
    Paul Haggis [Producer] and Cathy Schulman [Producer]
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
    Grant Heslov [Producer]
  • Munich
    Kathleen Kennedy [Producer], Steven Spielberg [Producer] and Barry Mendel [Producer]

Best Directing

  • Brokeback Mountain
    Ang Lee
  • Capote
    Bennett Miller
  • Crash
    Paul Haggis
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
    George Clooney
  • Munich
    Steven Spielberg

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Brokeback Mountain
    Michelle Williams
  • Capote
    Catherine Keener
  • The Constant Gardner
    Rachel Weisz
  • Junebug
    Amy Adams
  • North Country
    Frances McDormand

Best Animated Feature

  • Howl's Moving Castle
    Hayao Miyazaki
  • Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
    Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
  • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
    Nick Park and Steve Box

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Don't Tell
  • Joyeux Noël
  • Paradise Now
  • Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
  • Tsotsi

Best Art Direction

  • Good Night, and Good Luck
    Jim Bissell [Art Direction] and Jan Pascale [Set Decoration]
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Stuart Craig [Art Direction] and Stephenie McMillan [Set Decoration]
  • King Kong
    Grant Major [Art Direction], Dan Hennah [Set Decoration] and Simon Bright [Set Decoration]
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    John Myhre [Art Direction] and Gretchen Rau [Set Decoration]
  • Pride & Prejudice
    Sarah Greenwood [Art Direction] and Katie Spencer [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • Batman Begins
    Wally Pfister
  • Brokeback Mountain
    Rodrigo Prieto
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
    Robert Elswit
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    Dion Beebe
  • The New World
    Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Costume Design

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Gabriella Pescucci
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    Colleen Atwood
  • Mrs. Henderson Presents
    Sandy Powell
  • Pride & Prejudice
    Jacqueline Durran
  • Walk the Line
    Arianne Phillips

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • Darwin's Nightmare
    Hubert Sauper
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
    Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot
  • March of the Penguins
    Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
  • Murderball
    Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
  • Street Fight
    Marshall Curry

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
    Dan Krauss
  • God Sleeps in Rwanda
    Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman
  • The Mushroom Club
    Steve Okazaki
  • A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
    Corrinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson

Best Film Editing

  • Cinderella Man
    Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
  • The Constant Gardner
    Claire Simpson
  • Crash
    Hughes Winborne
  • Munich
    Michael Kahn
  • Walk the Line
    Michael McCusker

Best Makeup

  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Howard Berger and Tami Lane
  • Cinderella Man
    David LeRoy Anderson and Lance Anderson
  • Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
    Dave Elsey and Nikki Gooley

Best Music (Original Score)

  • Brokeback Mountain
    Gustavo Santaolalla
  • The Constant Gardner
    Alberto Iglesias
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    John Williams
  • Munich
    John Williams
  • Pride & Prejudice
    Dario Marianelli

Best Music (Original Song)

  • Crash "In the Deep"
    Kathleen "Bird" York [Music and Lyrics] and Michael Becker [Music]
  • Hustle & Flow "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"
    Jordan Houston [Music and Lyrics], Cedric Coleman [Music and Lyrics] and Paul Beauregard [Music and Lyrics]
  • Transamerica "Travelin' Thru"
    Dolly Parton [Music and Lyrics]

Best Short Film (Animated)

  • 9
    Shane Acker
  • Badgered
    Sharon Colman
  • The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
    John Canemaker and Peggy Stern
  • The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
    Anthony Lucas
  • One Man Band
    Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews

Best Short Film (Live Action)

  • Ausreisser (The Runaway)
    Ulrike Grote
  • Cashback
    Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager
  • The Last Farm
    Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson
  • Our Time Is Up
    Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente
  • Six Shooter
    Martin McDonagh

Best Sound Editing

  • King Kong
    Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    Wylie Stateman
  • War of the Worlds
    Richard King

Best Sound Mixing

  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic and Tony Johnson
  • King Kong
    Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
  • Memoirs of a Geisha
    Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett
  • Walk the Line
    Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Peter F. Kurland
  • War of the Worlds
    Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins

Best Visual Effects

  • The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
    Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney and Scott Farrar
  • King Kong
    Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor
  • War of the Worlds
    Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra and Daniel Sudick

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

  • Brokeback Mountain
    Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana
  • Capote
    Dan Futterman
  • The Constant Gardner
    Jeffrey Caine
  • A History of Violence
    Josh Olson
  • Munich
    Tony Kushner and Eric Roth

Best Writing (Original Screenplay)

  • Crash
    Paul Haggis [Story and Screenplay] and Bobby Moresco [Screenplay]
  • Good Night, and Good Luck
    George Clooney [Screenplay] and Grant Heslov [Screenplay]
  • Match Point
    Woody Allen [Screenplay]
  • The Squid and the Whale
    Noah Baumbach [Screenplay]
  • Syriana
    Stephen Gaghan [Screenplay]
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