Oscar Winners list… Crash takes home highest honours

Here is the list of winners of the 2006 Academy Awards which concluded a few mins ago…


Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

George Clooney(SYRIANA)

Achievement in Visual Effects
Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor(KING KONG)

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
Nick Park and Steve Box

Best Live Action Short Film
SIX SHOOTER
Martin McDonagh

Best Animated Short Film
THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION
John Canemaker and Peggy Stern

Achievement in Costume Design
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
Colleen Atwood

Achievement in Makeup

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
Howard Berger and Tami Lane

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Rachel Weisz(THE CONSTANT GARDENER)

Best Documentary Short Subject
A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN
Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson

Best Documentary Feature

MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau

Achievement in Art Direction
John Myhre (Art Direction); Gretchen Rau (Set Decoration) (MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Gustavo Santaolalla(BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN)

Achievement in Sound Mixing
KING KONG
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)
“IT’S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PIMP” FROM HUSTLE & FLOW
Music and Lyric by Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard

Achievement in Sound Editing
KING KONG
Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
TSOTSI
South Africa

Achievement in Film Editing
Hughes Winborne(CRASH)

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Philip Seymour Hoffman(CAPOTE)

Achievement in Cinematography
Dion Beebe(MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA)

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Reese Witherspoon(WALK THE LINE)

Adapted Screenplay
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana

Original Screenplay

CRASH
Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis

Achievement in Directing
Ang Lee(BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN)

Best Motion Picture of the Year

CRASH
Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman

My favourite quote by a winner: Ang Lee after winning the Best Director Oscar for “Brokeback Mountain”
(looking a the oscar) I wish I could quit you…