2005: 78th Academy Awards

 Best motion picture of the year
Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features) Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers
Capote (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, Producers
* Crash (Lions Gate) Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers
Good Night, and Good Luck. (Warner Independent Pictures) Grant Heslov, Producer
Munich (Universal and DreamWorks) Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel, Producers

Performance by an actor in a leading role
* Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
Terrence Howard in Hustle & Flow (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment)
Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features)
Joaquin Phoenix in Walk the Line (20th Century Fox)
David Strathairn in Good Night, and Good Luck. (Warner Independent Pictures)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Judi Dench in Mrs. Henderson Presents (The Weinstein Company)
Felicity Huffman in Transamerica (The Weinstein Company and IFC Films)
Keira Knightley in Pride & Prejudice (Focus Features)
Charlize Theron in North Country (Warner Bros.)
* Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line (20th Century Fox)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* George Clooney in Syriana (Warner Bros.)
Matt Dillon in Crash (Lions Gate)
Paul Giamatti in Cinderella Man (Universal and Miramax)
Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features)
William Hurt in A History of Violence (New Line)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in Junebug (Sony Pictures Classics)
Catherine Keener in Capote (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
Frances McDormand in North Country (Warner Bros.)
* Rachel Weisz in The Constant Gardener (Focus Features)
Michelle Williams in Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features)

Achievement in directing
* Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features) Ang Lee
Capote (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Bennett Miller
Crash (Lions Gate) Paul Haggis
Good Night, and Good Luck. (Warner Independent Pictures) George Clooney
Munich (Universal and DreamWorks) Steven Spielberg

Original screenplay
* Crash (Lions Gate) Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, story by Paul Haggis
Good Night, and Good Luck. (Warner Independent Pictures) Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov
Match Point (DreamWorks) Written by Woody Allen
The Squid and the Whale (Samuel Goldwyn Films and Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Noah Baumbach
Syriana (Warner Bros.) Written by Stephen Gaghan

Adapted screenplay
* Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features) Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
Capote (UA/Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by Dan Futterman
The Constant Gardener (Focus Features) Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine
A History of Violence (New Line) Screenplay by Josh Olson
Munich (Universal and DreamWorks) Screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth

Achievement in cinematography
Batman Begins (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features) Rodrigo Prieto
Good Night, and Good Luck. (Warner Independent Pictures) Robert Elswit
* Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dion Beebe
The New World (New Line) Emmanuel Lubezki

Achievement in art direction
Good Night, and Good Luck. (Warner Independent Pictures) Art Direction: Jim Bissell, Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Stuart Craig, Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
King Kong (Universal) Art Direction: Grant Major, Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Simon Bright
* Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony Pictures Releasing) Art Direction: John Myhre, Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
Pride & Prejudice (Focus Features) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood, Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

Achievement in sound mixing
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Buena Vista) Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic and Tony Johnson
* King Kong (Universal) Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett
Walk the Line (20th Century Fox) Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Peter F. Kurland
War of the Worlds (Paramount and DreamWorks) Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* Brokeback Mountain (Focus Features) Gustavo Santaolalla
The Constant Gardener (Focus Features) Alberto Iglesias
Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony Pictures Releasing) John Williams
Munich (Universal and DreamWorks) John Williams
Pride & Prejudice (Focus Features) Dario Marianelli

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“In the Deep” from Crash (Lions Gate) Music by Kathleen Bird York and Michael Becker, Lyric by Kathleen Bird York
* “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp” from Hustle & Flow (Paramount Classics, MTV Films and New Deal Entertainment) Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard
“Travelin’ Thru” from Transamerica (The Weinstein Company and IFC Films) Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton

Achievement in film editing
Cinderella Man (Universal and Miramax) Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
The Constant Gardener (Focus Features) Claire Simpson
* Crash (Lions Gate) Hughes Winborne
Munich (Universal and DreamWorks) Michael Kahn
Walk the Line (20th Century Fox) Michael McCusker

Achievement in costume design
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Warner Bros.) Gabriella Pescucci
* Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony Pictures Releasing) Colleen Atwood
Mrs. Henderson Presents (The Weinstein Company) Sandy Powell
Pride & Prejudice (Focus Features) Jacqueline Durran
Walk the Line (20th Century Fox) Arianne Phillips

Achievement in makeup
* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Buena Vista) Howard Berger and Tami Lane
Cinderella Man (Universal and Miramax) David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith (20th Century Fox) Dave Elsey and Nikki Gooley

Achievement in visual effects
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Buena Vista) Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney and Scott Farrar
* King Kong (Universal) Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor
War of the Worlds (Paramount and DreamWorks) Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randy Dutra and Daniel Sudick

Achievement in sound editing
* King Kong (Universal) Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
Memoirs of a Geisha (Sony Pictures Releasing) Wylie Stateman
War of the Worlds (Paramount and DreamWorks) Richard King

Best animated short film
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
9 Shane Acker
One Man Band Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews

Best live action short film
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 documentary feature
Darwin’s Nightmare (International Film Circuit) Hubert Sauper
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Magnolia Pictures) Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot
* March of the Penguins (Warner Independent Pictures) Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
Murderball (THINKFilm) 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 Steven Okazaki
* A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson

Best foreign language film of the year
Don’t Tell Italy
Joyeux Noël France
Paradise Now Palestine
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days Germany
* Tsotsi South Africa

Best animated feature film of the year
Howl’s Moving Castle (Buena Vista) Hayao Miyazaki
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (Warner Bros.) Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
* Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (DreamWorks Animation SKG) Nick Park and Steve Box

Honorary Oscar
To Robert Altman in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike.

Gordon E. Sawyer Award: Gary Demos

Technical Achievement Awards (Academy Certificate)
To Gary Thieltges for the design and development of the remotely-operated, lightweight camera head known as the Sparrow Head.
To Frank Fletcher and Dave Sherwin for the introduction and continuing development of the Power Pod modular camera head system.
To Alvah Miller, Michael Sorensen and J. Walt Adamczyk for the design and development of the Aerohead motion control camera head and the J-Viz Pre-Visualization system.
To Scott Leva for the design and development of the Precision Stunt Airbag for motion picture stunt falls.
To Lev Yevstratov, George Peters and Vasiliy Orlov for the development of the Ultimate Arm Camera Crane System for specialized vehicle photography.
To James Rodnunsky, Alex MacDonald and Mark Chapman for the development of the Cablecam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.
To Tim Drnec, Ben Britten Smith and Matt Davis for the development of the Spydercam 3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies.
To John Platt and Demetri Terzopoulos for their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures.
To Ed Catmull, for the original concept, and Tony DeRose and Jos Stam for their scientific and practical implementation of subdivision surfaces as a modeling technique in motion picture production.
To Harold Rattray, Terry Claborn, Steve Garlick, Bill Hogue and Tim Reynolds for the design, engineering and implementation of the Technicolor Real Time Answer Print System.
To Udo Schauss and Hildegard Ebbesmeier for the optical design and Nicole Wemken and Michael Anderer for the mechanical design of the Cinelux Premiere Cinema Projection Lenses.

Scientific and Engineering Awards (Academy Plaque)
To David Grober for the concept and mechanical design and Scott Lewallen for the electronic and software design of the Perfect Horizon camera stabilization head.
To Anatoliy Kokush, Yuriy Popovsky and Oleksiy Zolotarov for the concept and development of the Russian Arm gyro-stabilized camera crane and the Flight Head.
To Anatoliy Kokush for the concept and development of the Cascade series of motion picture cranes.
To Garrett Brown for the original concept of the Skycam flying camera system – the first use of 3D volumetric cable technology for motion picture cinematography.
To David Baraff, Michael Kass and Andrew Witkin for their pioneering work in physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures.
To Laurie Frost, Peter Hannan and Richard Loncraine for the development of the remote camera head known as the Hot-Head.