Taken from the Oscar official site, here are this year’s winners.
Acting Categories:
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Philip Seymour Hoffman – Capote
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Reese Witherspoon – Walk the Line
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: George Clooney – Syriana
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Rachel Weisz – The Constant Gardener
Overall Categories:
Best Motion Picture of the Year: Crash
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: Tsotsi
Best Documentary Feature: March of the Penguins – Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
Best Documentary Short Subject: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin – Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year: Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Animated Short Film: The Moon and The Son: An Imagined Conversation – John Canemaker and Peggy Stern
Best Live Action Short Film: Six Shooters – Martin McDonagh
Creative Categories:
Achievement in Directing: Ang Lee – Brokeback Mountain
Original Screenplay: Crash – Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis
Adapted Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain – Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
Achievement in Cinematography: Memoirs of a Geisha – Dion Beebe
Achievement in Film Editing: Crash – Hughes Winborne
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 Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) – Brokeback Mountain – Gustavo Santaolalla
Achievement in Art Direction: Memoirs of a Geisha – John Myhre (Art Direction); Gretchen Rau (Set Decoration)
Achievement in Makeup: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – Howard Berger and Tami Lane
Achievement in Costume Design: Memoirs of a Geisha – Colleen Atwood
Technical Categories:
Achievement in Sound Editing: King Kong – Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
Achievement in Sound Mixing: King Kong – Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
Achievement in Visual Effects: King Kong – Joe Letteri, Brian Van’t Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor
Crash is the surprise winner, beating the buzz-generating Brokeback Mountain. Ang Lee is the first Asian to win Best Director award; the film also won Best Score. All the actors of the film did not win. King Kong got all the technical awards that are given on the awards night. John Williams was nominated for Best Score for two films – Memoirs of a Geisha and Munich; both lost.
This year’s host is Jon Stewart.
Also recorded at Punzi’s Corner Blog here.