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2006 Academy Award Winners
2006 Oscar Winners
by Wild About Movies
March 7, 2006

Complete list of 2006 Academy Award WINNERS - below.

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"Crash" stole the thunder from "Brokeback Mountain," winning the Best Picture Oscar. Ang Lee took home his first Oscar, for directing "Brokeback Mountain," while Larry McMurtry and his writing and domestic partner, Diana Ossana, took the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for "Brokeback Mountain." "Crash" received one additional major Oscar - Best Orginal Screenplay. Reese Witherspoon won the Best Actress Oscar for portraying June Carter-Cash in "Walk the Line." Philip Seymour-Hoffman won Best Actor for his role as Truman Capote in "Capote."

More from Wild About Movies about Sunday night's Oscars, below.


Wild About Movies Predictions - Blue
2006 Oscar Winners - Red

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And the winners are...


"2006 Best Picture Academy Award Nominees"
Brokeback Mountain
Capote (Buy DVD now)
Crash - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Good Night & And Good Luck (Buy DVD now)
Munich

"2006 Best Director Academy Award Nominees"
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain - Winner
Bennett Miller, Capote (Buy DVD now)
Paul Haggis, Crash (Buy DVD now)
George Clooney, Good Night & Good Luck (Buy DVD now)
Steven Spielberg, Munich

"2006 Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award Nominees"
Brokeback Mountain - Winner
Capote (Buy DVD now)
The Constant Gardener (Buy DVD now)
A History of Violence (Buy DVD now)
Munich

"2006 Best Original Screenplay Academy Award Nominees"
Crash - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Good Night & Good Luck (Buy DVD now)
Match Point (Buy DVD now)
The Squid & The Whale (Buy DVD now)
Syriana

"2006 Best Actress Academy Award Nominees"
Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman, Transamerica (Buy DVD now)
Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice (Buy DVD now)
Charlize Theron, North Country (Buy DVD now)
Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
- Winner (Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Actor Academy Award Nominees"
Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Capote - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow (Buy DVD now)
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk The Line (Buy DVD now)
David Straithairn, Good Night & Good Luck
(Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award Nominees"
George Clooney, Syriana - Winner
Matt Dillon, Crash (Buy DVD now)
Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man (Buy DVD now)
Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
William Hurt, A History of Violence (Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award Nominees"
Amy Adams, Junebug (Buy DVD now)
Catherine Keener, Capote (Buy DVD now)
Frances McDormand, North Country (Buy DVD now)
Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

"2006 Best Visual Effects Academy Award Nominees"
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Buy DVD now)
King Kong - Winner (Buy DVD now)

War of the Worlds (Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Animated Film Academy Award Nominees"
Howl's Moving Castle (Buy DVD now)
Corpse Bride (Buy DVD now)
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit - WINNER (Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Short Live Action Academy Award Nominees"

Ausreisser (The Runaway)
Cashback
The Last Farm
Our Time Is Up
Six Shooter - Winner

"2006 Best Short Animated Academy Award Nominees"
Badgered
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation - Winner
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
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One Man Band

"2006 Best Costume Design Academy Award Nominees"

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Buy DVD now)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Pride & Prejudice (Buy DVD now)
Walk the Line
(Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Makeup Academy Award Nominees"
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Cinderella Man (Buy DVD now)
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
(Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Documentary Short Academy Award Nominees"

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

"2006 Best Documentary Academy Award Nominees"
Darwin's Nightmare
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Buy DVD now)
March of the Penguins - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Murderball (Buy DVD now)
Street Fight

Oscar Trivia: Oscar Presenters and Oscar Nominees receive a Gift Bag with presents totaling more than $50,000, including a luxurious weekend at The Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, replete with Spa Treatments and Room Service. Oscar Winners, on the other hand, get a Gift Bag worth more than $100,000. Terrence Howard, Best Actor nominee for "Hustle & Flow" joked, "I got paid only $12,000 for 'Hustle & Flow.' Even if I don't win an award, I get a Gift Bag worth almost five times as much as my salary for the movie I was nominated for."

"2006 Best Art Direction Academy Award Nominees"
Good Night & Good Luck (Buy DVD now)
Harry Potter And the Goblet of Fire (Buy DVD now)
King Kong (Buy DVD now)
Memoirs Of A Geisha - Winner (Buy DVD now)

Pride & Prejudice (Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Original Score Academy Award Nominees"
Brokeback Mountain - Winner
The Constant Gardener (Buy DVD now)
Memoirs Of A Geisha (Buy DVD now)
Munich
Pride & Prejudice
(Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Sound Mixing Academy Award Nominees"
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Buy DVD now)
King Kong - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Buy DVD now)
Walk the Line (Buy DVD now)
War of the Worlds
(Buy DVD now)


"2006 Best Original Song Academy Award Nominees"

In the Deep from Crash (Buy DVD now)
It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp from Hustle & Flow - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Travelin' Thru from Transamerica (Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Sound Editing Academy Award Nominees"
King Kong - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Memoirs of a Geisha (Buy DVD now)
War of the Worlds
(Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Foreign Film Academy Award Nominees"

Don't Tell, Italy
Joyeaux Noel, France
Paradise Now, Palestine (Buy DVD now)

Sophie Scholl, Germany

Tsotsi, South Africa - Winner

"2006 Best Film Editing Academy Award Nominees"
Cinderella Man (Buy DVD now)
The Constant Gardener (Buy DVD now)
Crash - Winner (Buy DVD now)
Munich
Walk the Line (Buy DVD now)

"2006 Best Cinematography Academy Award Nominees"
Batman Begins (Buy DVD now)
Brokeback Mountain
Good Night & Good Luck (Buy DVD now)
Memoirs Of A Geisha - Winner (Buy DVD now)
The New World

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See complete list of 300+ films which were eligible for this year's Academy Award nominations. Which ones were left out?

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March 7, 2006 - Well... "Brokeback Mountain" lost the Best Picture Oscar to "Crash," after all. There were rumblings in Hollywood for the past month that "Crash" might steal "Brokeback's" thunder, when all was said and done. The majority of 6,000+ Academy voters live in and around Los Angeles, and "Crash," a spectacular film, was about their town. "Crash" is a film that certainly didn't deserve to lose, and isn't a film that most would laugh at for winning, such as another last minute Oscar stunner, "Shakespeare In Love."

"Shakespeare In Love," almost a decade ago, practically ripped the Best Picture Oscar from Steve Spielberg who won Best Director for "Saving Private Ryan."

And since "Shakespeare In Love's" win, how many times has the R-rated film graced ABC in Prime Time, unedited, and with limited commercial interruptions? Not once. But "Saving Private Ryan," in all its controversial graphic violence, has no less than five times.

I can guarantee if you ask ten average Americans - not Trivial Pursuit Academy Awards edition players - to name the Best Picture winner from a list the list of nominees from 1999, which included "Shakespeare In Love," "Life Is Beautiful," "Saving Private Ryan," "Elizabeth," or "The Thin Red Line," eight out of ten, if not more, would pick "Saving Private Ryan," as the Best Picture winner.

Will "Crash" go the same route? Will people, five years down the road, forget about "Crash," and only remember "Brokeback Mountain" as the movie of 2006?

Time will tell, but one thing is certain. "Brokeback Mountain" is not a loser. In addition to the film's director, Ang Lee, winning the Best Director Oscar, the film also won the coveted Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, and Best Original Score.

And, in case you didn't remember - those years fly by - Paul Haggis, who won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for "Crash" this year, was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award last year for "Million Dollar Baby."

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February 1, 2006 - Big surprises with the Oscar nominations? No Best Picture nomination for "Walk the Line," and a Best Picture nomination for "Munich." While "Munich" did get Best Picture, Director and Screenplay nominations, it received not one acting nomination. "Walk the Line," on the other hand, earned Best Acting nominations for both of its stars, Reese Withersoon and Joaquin Phoenix for their portrayals of June Carter-Cash and Johnny Cash.

The Academy officially hates Russell Crowe, who did not get a nomination for "Cinderella Man." His costar, Paul Giamatti, however, earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination, after missing out on a Best Actor nomination last year for "Sideways."

Matt Dillon gets his first nomination, Best Supporting Actor for "Crash." Terrence Howard gets the big honor, a Best Actor nomination for "Hustle And Flow." And Jake Gyllenhaal doesn't feel left out, what with his Best Supporting Actor nomination for "Brokeback Mountain." Anne Hathaway is the only one of the four leads in "Brokeback Mountain" to be left out of a nomination, with Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams and Gyllenhaal's nominations.

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January 29, 2006 - OK. Here they are. Not quite Wild About Movies predictions, per se, of the upcoming Academy Award nominations, rather a combination of what movies and actors we think should be nominated and who and what will get nominated. Never has anyone been able to correctly predict every nomination and we would be insane to think we could. If we happen to get every major nomination right, though, we expect something big - perhaps a pair of seats, up front, at the Academy Awards.

Wild About Movies 2006 Oscar Nominee Hopeful List

Brokeback Mountain Movie PosterPicture: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Match Point, Walk The Line

Surprise nominees: Matchpoint and Walk The Line. Everyone likes a comeback, Woody Allen, (though the film's dreadful publicity campaign by the now defunct Dreamworks could have hurt its chances), and a newcomer, James Mangold. (Mangold has been around for years. Remember "Heavy"? Didn't think so. But you do remember "Girl, Interrupted." However, "Walk The Line," is his first "Hollywood" movie. And a great one, to boot.

Surprise misses: Good Night, And Good Luck. Definitely the most overrated movie of 2005. A good movie, but not theatrical quality. At only 83 minutes, the movie doesn't work in theaters. Should have been a PBS movie of the week. If it gets a Picture nomination it's only because the Academy voters love George Clooney.


Director: Woody Allen, Match Point; Paul Haggis, Crash; Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain; James Mangold, Walk The Line; Steven Spielberg, Munich.

Surprise nominees: See Picture surprises. And Paul Haggis. After winning Best Screenplay for last year's Million Dollar Baby, he will be rewarded for his directorial debut, with a directing nomination.

Capote Movie PosterActor: Jeff Daniels, The Squid & The Whale; Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Capote; Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain; Joaquin Phoenix, Walk The Line, David Strathairn, Good Night And Good Luck.


Surprise nominees.
None.

Actress: Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents; Felicity Huffman, TransAmerica; Scarlett Johannson, Match Point; Laura Linney, The Squid & The Whale; Reese Witherspoon, Walk The Line.

Surprise nominees: None. OK. Scarlett Johannson. It was a horrible year and picking five was a chore. But if Felicity Huffman is going to win, her movie better get into more than 3 movie theaters.

Walk the Line Movie Poster

Supporting Actor: George Clooney, Syriana; Will Ferrell, The Producers; Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain, Terrance Howard, Crash; William Hurt, A History Of Violence.


Suprise nominees: Well, Jake Gyllenhall, but we think Brokeback will sweep the acting award nominations - and go home with none. And Will Ferrell, because when was the last time an alumn of SNL received an acting nomination from anyone but the Razzies? And Terrance Howard, because we think he will get a supporting actor nomination instead of a best actor nomination for Hustle & Flow.

Supporting Actress: Brenda Blethyn, Pride & Prejudice; Anne Hathaway, Brokeback Mountain; Catherine Keener, Capote; Thandie Newton, Crash; Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain.


Surprise nominees. None. If you figure the four main stars of Brokeback Mountain will all get nominations, including two for Best Supporting Actress.

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