Oscars 2006

[Uncle Spielberg]

Oscars 2006: The winners
Here is the list of winners and other nominees from the 78th Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 5 March:

Best picture
Winner: Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Good Night, and Good Luck
Munich
Capote

Best director
Winner: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg - Munich
Paul Haggis - Crash
Bennett Miller - Capote
George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck

Best actor
Winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck
Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
Terrence Howard - Hustle and Flow

Best actress
Winner: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
Dame Judi Dench - Mrs Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Charlize Theron - North Country
Keira Knightley - Pride and Prejudice

Best supporting actor
Winner: George Clooney - Syriana
Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
Paul Giamatti - Cinderella Man
Matt Dillon - Crash
William Hurt - A History of Violence

Best supporting actress
Winner: Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams - Brokeback Mountain
Frances McDormand - North Country
Amy Adams - Junebug
Catherine Keener - Capote

Best animated feature film
Winner: Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Howl's Moving Castle
Corpse Bride

Best foreign language film
Winner: Tsotsi (South Africa)
Don't Tell (Italy)
Joyeux Noel (France)
Paradise Now (Palestinian territories)
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days (Germany)

Best original screenplay
Winner: Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Match Point
The Squid and the Whale
Syriana

Best adapted screenplay
Winner: Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
A History of Violence
Munich

Best documentary feature
Winner: March of the Penguins
Darwin's Nightmare
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Murderball
Street Fight

Best cinematography
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha
Batman Begins
Brokeback Mountain
Goodnight, and Good Luck
The New World

Best visual effects
Winner: King Kong
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
War of the Worlds

Best art direction
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha
Goodnight, and Good Luck
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
King Kong
Pride and Prejudice

Best film editing
Winner: Crash
Cinderella Man
The Constant Gardener
Munich
Walk The Line

Best sound mixing
Winner: King Kong
The Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Memoirs of a Geisha
Walk The Line
War of the Worlds

Sound editing
Winner: King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
War of the Worlds

Best music (song)
Winner: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp - Hustle and Flow
In the Deep - Crash
Travelin' Thru - Transamerica

Best music (score)
Winner: Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich
Pride and Prejudice

Best costume design
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mrs Henderson Presents
Pride and Prejudice
Walk The Line

Best make-up
Winner: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Cinderella Man
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Best short film
Winner: Six Shooter
Ausreisser (The Runaway)
Cashback
The Last Farm
Our Time is Up

Best animated short film
Winner: The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Badgered
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
9
One Man Band

Best documentary short subject
Winner: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club
God Sleeps in Rwanda
The Mushroom Club

Lifetime achievement award
Director and writer Robert Altman

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Brokeback mountain 3
Crash 3
King Kong 3
Memoirs of a Geisha 3

Others 1 each

 

[dwayne]

best song - it's hard out here for a pimp - brilliant

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

And Three 6 Mafia take the Best Song Award with "Its Hard Out There To Be A Pimp"...

 

[dwayne]

I'm glad Crash won best picture as well. Would definitely agree with that.

 

[dwayne]

And Three 6 Mafia take the Best Song Award with "Its Hard Out There To Be A Pimp"...

The thing is, that film is just one big piss take of the hoes and pimps culture, and that song is so tongue in cheek it's untrue. Seems an unbelievable choice for best song though lol.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I think Albion Dan said what utter shite Crash was but I saw it at the Duke of Yorks and thought it was pretty good with 2 very powerful scenes that will stick in the memory

Crash 8.0
Munich 8.1
Not seen the other 3

 

[Lady Whistledown]

And the winner chosen by the Academy for the annual "Let's give the Brits something to cheer about because they never win anything important but they are good at making amusing plasticine characters" Award is

Wallace & Gromit

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

And the winner chosen by the Academy for the annual "Let's give the Brits something to cheer about because they never win anything important but they are good at making amusing plasticine characters" Award is

Wallace & Gromit

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

And the winner chosen by the Academy for the annual "Let's give the Brits something to cheer about because they never win anything important but they are good at making amusing plasticine characters" Award is

Wallace & Gromit





Rachel Weisz

 

[withdeanwombat]

Nothing for Arjen Robben?

 

[The Large One]

Nothing for Arjen Robben?

Over-acted. Quite hammy it was.

 

[Marshy]

im glad there were a few suprises for a change, as in previous years it seems everyone knows who has won before it starts.

 

[Albion Dan]

I hated Crash. Biggest load of pretentious right on garbage Ive ever sat through, which makes it odds on to win an Oscar.

I though Million Dollar baby last year was crap as well, the last half of the film was just a joke, I could have walked out the cinema with 20 mins to go and still known what was going to happen.

The Oscars are a joke of an award anyway, its all about back slapping, awarding the most PC efforts, and making up for past mistakes.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Calm Down Calm Down

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I certainly thought it was a disgrace when Gandhi stole the Oscar from ET.

 

[Trufflehound]

I certainly thought it was a disgrace when Gandhi stole the Oscar from ET.

Yeah. Old geezer like that should know better than picking on people smaller than himself.

Especially rubber people.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Yeah. Old geezer like that should know better than picking on people smaller than himself.

Especially rubber people.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Right, let's up the ante on this thread which apart from Albion Dan is not really getting to the nub of it at all.

Biggest Oscar travesties:

Raging Bull losing out to Ordinary People (1981). Staggering decision, OP was good, RB was great.

That came a year after Apocalypse Now lost out to Kramer vs Kramer, another massive but typical Academy cop-out.

Personally I thought Goodfellas was a miles better film than Dances with Wolves in 1991, and Al Pacino never got the Oscar for Godfather II which was a disgrace.

And Rocky - good film as it is - should never have won an Oscar especially in the same year as All The President's men and Taxi Driver.


Of this year's crop Reese Witherspoon deserved her gong, she's superb in Walk The Line.

 

[Trufflehound]

Biggest Oscar travesties:

<Insert name of any film made in 1994 - except perhaps "Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow"> losing out to "Forrest Gump".