78th Academy Awards
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The 78th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, were held on March 5 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart. The nominees were announced on January 31, 2006. Ang Lee's drama Brokeback Mountain, with eight nominations, had the most nominations of the year's films. Its nominations included Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture. Paul Haggis' Crash, George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, and Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha each received six nominations.
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Major winners and nomineesThis is a breakdown of only major winners. For a complete list of nominees and winners, see: 78th Academy Awards nominees and winnersFeature Films
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DirectingSpecial honorsFilms with multiple nominationsEight
Films with multiple winsThe following films each won three Oscars.3/8 ''Brokeback Mountain | 3/6 ''Crash | 3/4
''King Kong | 3/6
''Memoirs of a Geisha Academy Award ceremony presenters and performers
In addition, previous Academy Awards hosts Billy Crystal, Chris Rock, Steve Martin, David Letterman and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as George Clooney, Mel Gibson and Halle Berry participated in a pre-taped comedy skit at the start of the broadcast. Tom Hanks, in addition to presenting an award, was also featured in a pre-taped skit about keeping acceptance speeches within the time limits. Opening/Montages/Trivia
In MemoriamGeorge Clooney presented the annual tribute to those in the motion picture industry who had died during the previous year. Among those featured were: Teresa Wright, Pat Morita, producer Robert F. Newmyer, Dan O'Herlihy, Vincent Schiavelli, writer Joe Ranft, Moira Shearer, Fayard Nicholas, composer Joel Hirschhorn, Sandra Dee, John Fiedler, Anthony Franciosa, editor Stu Linder, Barbara Bel Geddes, producer Moustapha Akkad, Chris Penn, John Mills, recording sound mixer Robert Knudson, Simone Simon, producer Debra Hill, choreographer Onna White, makeup artist Robert J. Schiffer, cinematographer/director Guy Green, Brock Peters, writer Ernest Lehman, Shelley Winters, Anne Bancroft, production designer John Box, Eddie Albert, producer Ismail Merchant, director Robert Wise and finally, Richard Pryor.Voting trends and reaction
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None of the five Best Picture nominees was among the year's top 40 releases in box office at the time of the nominations, likely the most disappointing box-office performance of any Best Picture field in history; the film chosen as best Documentary Feature, March of the Penguins, earned more ($77.4 million) than any of the dramatic nominees, the first such occurrence in Academy history. As of January 31, Crash was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with $55.4 million in domestic box office receipts, and ranked as the 47th highest grosser of 2005. It was followed by Brokeback Mountain at $51 million (53rd) and Munich at $40.1 million (67th); Good Night, and Good Luck. ($25.1 million) and Capote ($15.3 million) rounded out the field. (By the time of the awards, Brokeback Mountain would surpass Crash with $78.9 million, benefitting from its position as Oscar frontrunner.) Of the top 50 releases of 2005 in U.S. box office through January, only Crash, Walk the Line (19th) and Cinderella Man (41st) received nominations for directing, acting or writing. The top 18 films in box office received a total of only 14 nominations, with a majority of these in the categories of Visual Effects, Sound Mixing and Sound Editing. For the first time in five years, a majority of the Best Picture nominees were rated R (under 17 requires accompanying adult); it had been seven years since as many (four) of the nominees had earned that rating. Of the 85 nominations awarded to non-documentary feature films (apart from the Foreign Film category), a slight majority of 43 went to R-rated films, 25 to films rated PG-13, 16 to PG-rated films and 1 to a G-rated film. There was a remarkable rating-related division among the nominations: R-rated films captured 32 of the 40 nominations for Best Picture, directing, screenwriting and acting, while non-R-rated films received 34 of the 45 nominations in the remaining categories, primarily those in "below the line" areas (the music and editing categories accounted for 9 of the 11 nominations for R-rated films). Also, the nominations were more widely dispersed than usual; it marked the first time in six years that no film received more than eight nominations. This year the awards ceremony started at 5:00 P.M. PST, 30 minutes earlier than the previous seven ceremonies. The pre-show was extended from its original thirty minutes to a full hour before the ceremony. The Barbara Walters Special, usually airing before or after the ceremony (depending on time zone) was for the second time, since 2003, aired on different days this time before the actual day of the ceremony, March 1 to accommodate these time changes. As has become standard practice in recent years, the broadcast aired on a time delay in order to allow the network to censor offensive material. This occurred during the performance of "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" when several words were blanked out at the start of the song, and later one phrase was bleeped during Three 6 Mafia's acceptance speech. As with tradition, last year's acting winners present an acting award for the opposite sex. Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress the previous year but was contractually signed to star in a play in New York City, therefore unable to present the award for Best Supporting Actor; Nicole Kidman was recruited to fill in. \"Gay Oscars\"?Many news organizations labeled this ceremony "The Gay Oscars",[link][link] as movies such as Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Transamerica featured prominent gay or transgender characters and were strong candidates for the popular Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress categories.Tom O'Neill of InTouch Weekly declared on CNN Saturday Night, "I think we could have the all-gay Oscars. Brokeback for best picture; Capote for best actor; Transamerica for best actress.""Gay Oscars" from a transcript of CNN Saturday Night accessed February 18, 2006 from [link] Ultimately, in these three categories only Capote won its potential award. The label of "Gay Oscars" resembles the "Black Oscars" label of the 74th Academy Awards when two African-Americans, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry, won the best actor and actress Oscars, respectively. [link] It should be noted that several gay and transgender themed characters and films have won major Oscar awards in previous years, including Tom Hanks' character in Philadelphia and Hilary Swank's character in Boys Don't Cry. WinnersThe awards were unusually divided; for the first time in 58 years, no film won more than three awards, with Brokeback Mountain, Crash, King Kong, and Memoirs of a Geisha each receiving that many. Crash was the first Best Picture winner since Rocky 29 years earlier to win only three awards; it was also the first Best Picture winner since Chariots of Fire 24 years earlier to not win for its directing nor for any of its performers. For the first time in 49 years, Best Picture, Best Director and the four acting awards went to six different films; and for the first time ever, none of these films won for cinematography either. King Kong and Memoirs of a Geisha became the first films since The Bad and the Beautiful 53 years earlier to win (or tie for) the most awards without being nominated for Best Picture.For the first time in 44 years, each of the acting winners was a first-time nominee. With Philip Seymour Hoffman winning for his performance as Truman Capote, and Reese Witherspoon honored for her role as June Carter, it marked the fifth time that both lead acting awards went to performers playing real people. Ang Lee became the first Asian director to be honored. Paul Haggis was the evening's only multiple winner, with awards for producing and writing Crash. March of the Penguins was the first nature documentary in 35 years (since The Hellstrom Chronicle in 1971) to win the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. 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TV RatingsThe ceremony attracted 38.59 million viewers with 26.57 million households watching. This makes this year's ceremony the lowest viewed ceremony in terms of Nielsen Ratings after the one in 2003. This is partially due to the lack of box office hits being nominated.See also
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