" the best film of 2005 Sunday, turning its back on 'Brokeback Mountain' (the film about the love affair between two gay men, which had dominated virtually every other movie award in the run-up to the Oscars).
| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| | 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) |
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| | 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) |
| |
| | 'Howl's Moving Castle' (Buena Vista)
Hayao Miyazaki |
| | 'Tim Burton's Corpse Bride' (Warner Bros.)
Mike Johnson and Tim Burton |
| 'Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit' (DreamWorks Animation SKG)
Nick Park and Steve Box |
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| | '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 |
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| | '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 |
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| | '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 |
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| '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 |
| |
| | 'Darwin's Nightmare' (International Film Circuit)
A Mille et Une Production
Hubert Sauper |
| | 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room' (Magnolia Pictures)
An HDNet Films Production
Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot |
| 'March of the Penguins' (Warner Independent Pictures)
A Bonne Pioche Production
Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau |
| | 'Murderball' (THINKFilm)
An Eat Films Production
Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro |
| | 'Street Fight'
A Marshall Curry Production
Marshall Curry |
| |
| | 'The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club'
A Dan Krauss Production
Dan Krauss |
| | 'God Sleeps in Rwanda'
An Acquaro/Sherman Production
Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman |
| | 'The Mushroom Club'
A Farallon Films Production
Steven Okazaki |
| 'A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin'
A NomaFilms Production
Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson |
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| | '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 |
| |
| | 'Don't Tell'
A Cattleya/Rai Cinema Production
Italy |
| | 'Joyeux Noël'
A Nord-Ouest Production
France |
| | 'Paradise Now'
An Augustus Film Production
Palestine |
| | 'Sophie Scholl - The Final Days'
A Goldkind Filmproduktion and Broth Film Production
Germany |
| 'Tsotsi'
A Moviworld Production
South Africa |
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| '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 |
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| '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 |
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| | '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 |
| |
| | 'Brokeback Mountain' (Focus Features)
A River Road Entertainment Production
Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers |
| | 'Capote' (UA/Sony Pictures Classics)
An A-Line Pictures/Cooper's Town/ Infinity Media Production
Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, Producers |
| 'Crash' (Lions Gate)
A Bob Yari/DEJ/Blackfriar's Bridge/ Harris Company/ApolloProscreen GmbH & Co./Bull's Eye Entertainment Production
Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers |
| | 'Good Night, and Good Luck.' (Warner Independent Pictures)
A Good Night Good Luck LLC Production
Grant Heslov, Producer |
| | 'Munich' (Universal and DreamWorks)
A Universal Pictures/DreamWorks Pictures Production
Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel, Producers |
| |
| | 'Badgered'
A National Film and Television School Production
Sharon Colman |
| 'The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation'
A John Canemaker Production
John Canemaker and Peggy Stern |
| | 'The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello' (Monster Distributes)
A 3D Films Production
Anthony Lucas |
| | '9'
A Shane Acker Production
Shane Acker |
| | 'One Man Band'
A Pixar Animation Studios Production
Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews |
| |
| | 'Ausreisser (The Runaway)'
A Hamburg Media School, Filmwerkstatt Production
Ulrike Grote |
| | 'Cashback' (The British Film Institute)
A Left Turn Films Production
Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager |
| | 'The Last Farm'
A Zik Zak Filmworks Production
Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson |
| | 'Our Time Is Up'
A Station B Production
Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente |
| 'Six Shooter' (Sundance Film Channel)
A Missing in Action Films and Funny Farm Films Production
Martin McDonagh |
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| '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 |
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| | '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 |
| |
| | '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, Randal M. Dutra and Daniel Sudick |
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| '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 |
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| '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 |
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LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2005 presented on Sunday, March 5, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood &