Jon Stewart
Best Supporting Actor: George
Clooney
Best Animated Feature: Wallace
& Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
by Nick Park and Steve Box
Nominated for Best Make-up:
STAR WARS Episode III
Best Supporting Actress:
Rachel Weisz
Bill Conti
Itzhak Perlman plays
excerpts from the nominated scores.
John Williams
and his daughter Jennifer.
John Williams is
nominated for...
...Memoirs of a Geisha...
...and for...
...Munich.
Jessica Alba and
Eric Bana
Lily Tomlin and
Meryl Streep present an Honorary Award to...
...Robert Altman.
Keira Knightley
George Clooney
Hilary Swank
Dustin Hofmann
Tom Hanks presents
the Best Director Award.
Jack Nicholson presents
the Best Picture Award.
BEST PICTURE
Brokeback Mountain -- Diana Ossana and James Schamus, Producers
Capote -- Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven, Producers
* Crash -- Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers
Good Night, and Good Luck. -- Grant Heslov, Producer
Munich -- Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel, Producers
DIRECTING
* Brokeback Mountain -- Ang Lee
Capote -- Bennett Miller
Crash -- Paul Haggis
Good Night, and Good Luck. -- George Clooney
Munich -- Steven Spielberg
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Judi Dench -- Mrs. Henderson Presents {"Mrs. Laura Henderson"}
Felicity Huffman -- Transamerica {"Bree"}
Keira Knightley -- Pride & Prejudice {"Elizabeth Bennet"}
Charlize Theron -- North Country {"Josey Aimes"}
* Reese Witherspoon -- Walk the Line {"June Carter"}
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams -- Junebug {"Ashley"}
Catherine Keener -- Capote {"Nelle Harper Lee"}
Frances McDormand -- North Country {"Glory"}
* Rachel Weisz -- The Constant Gardener {"Tessa Quayle"}
Michelle Williams -- Brokeback Mountain {"Alma"}
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
* Philip Seymour Hoffman -- Capote {"Truman Capote"}
Terrence Howard -- Hustle & Flow {"DJay"}
Heath Ledger -- Brokeback Mountain {"Ennis Del Mar"}
Joaquin Phoenix -- Walk the Line {"John R. Cash"}
David Strathairn -- Good Night, and Good Luck. {"Edward R. Murrow"}
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
* George Clooney -- Syriana {"Bob Barnes"}
Matt Dillon -- Crash {"Officer Ryan"}
Paul Giamatti -- Cinderella Man {"Joe Gould"}
Jake Gyllenhaal -- Brokeback Mountain {"Jack Twist"}
William Hurt -- A History of Violence {"Richie Cusack"}
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Howl’s Moving Castle -- Hayao Miyazaki
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride -- Mike Johnson and Tim Burton
* Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit -- Nick Park and Steve Box
ART DIRECTION
Good Night, and Good Luck. -- Art Direction: Jim Bissell; Set Decoration: Jan Pascale
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -- Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration:
Stephenie McMillan
King Kong -- Art Direction: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Dan Hennah and Simon Bright
* Memoirs of a Geisha -- Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
Pride & Prejudice -- Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Batman Begins -- Wally Pfister
Brokeback Mountain -- Rodrigo Prieto
Good Night, and Good Luck. -- Robert Elswit
* Memoirs of a Geisha -- Dion Beebe
The New World -- Emmanuel Lubezki
COSTUME DESIGN
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Gabriella Pescucci
* Memoirs of a Geisha -- Colleen Atwood
Mrs. Henderson Presents -- Sandy Powell
Pride & Prejudice -- Jacqueline Durran
Walk the Line -- Arianne Phillips
DOCUMENTARY (Feature)
Darwin's Nightmare -- Hubert Sauper
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room -- Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot
* March of the Penguins -- Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
Murderball -- Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro
Street Fight -- Marshall Curry
DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)
The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club -- Dan Krauss
God Sleeps in Rwanda -- Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman
The Mushroom Club -- Steven Okazaki
* A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin -- Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson
FILM EDITING
Cinderella Man -- Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
The Constant Gardener -- Claire Simpson
* Crash -- Hughes Winborne
Munich -- Michael Kahn
Walk the Line -- Michael McCusker
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Don’t Tell -- Italy
Joyeux Noël -- France
Paradise Now -- The Palestinian Territories
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days -- Germany
* Tsotsi -- South Africa
MAKEUP
* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- Howard Berger and Tami
Lane
Cinderella Man -- David Leroy Anderson and Lance Anderson
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith -- Dave Elsey and Nikki Gooley
MUSIC (Original Score)
* Brokeback Mountain -- Gustavo Santaolalla
The Constant Gardener -- Alberto Iglesias
Memoirs of a Geisha -- John Williams
Munich -- John Williams
Pride & Prejudice -- Dario Marianelli
MUSIC (Original Song)
"In the Deep" from Crash -- Music by Kathleen "Bird" York and Michael
Becker; Lyric by Kathleen "Bird" York
* "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from Hustle & Flow -- Music and Lyric by
Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard
"Travelin' Thru" from Transamerica -- Music and Lyric by Dolly Parton
SHORT FILM (Animated)
Badgered -- Sharon Colman
* The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation -- John Canemaker and Peggy Stern
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello -- Anthony Lucas
9 -- Shane Acker
One Man Band -- Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews
SHORT FILM (Live Action)
Ausreisser (The Runaway) -- Ulrike Grote
Cashback -- Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager
The Last Farm -- Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson
Our Time Is Up -- Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente
* Six Shooter -- Martin McDonagh
SOUND EDITING
* King Kong -- Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
Memoirs of a Geisha -- Wylie Stateman
War of the Worlds -- Richard King
SOUND MIXING
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- Terry Porter, Dean A.
Zupancic and Tony Johnson
* King Kong -- Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
Memoirs of a Geisha -- Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline and John Pritchett
Walk the Line -- Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill and Peter F. Kurland
War of the Worlds -- Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer and Ronald Judkins
VISUAL EFFECTS
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -- Dean Wright, Bill
Westenhofer, Jim Berney and Scott Farrar
* King Kong -- Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor
War of the Worlds -- Dennis Muren, Pablo Helman, Randal M. Dutra and Daniel Sudick
WRITING (Adapted Screenplay)
* Brokeback Mountain -- Screenplay by Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana
Capote -- Screenplay by Dan Futterman
The Constant Gardener -- Screenplay by Jeffrey Caine
A History of Violence -- Screenplay by Josh Olson
Munich -- Screenplay by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth
WRITING (Original Screenplay)
* Crash -- Screenplay by Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco; Story by Paul Haggis
Good Night, and Good Luck. -- Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov
Match Point -- Written by Woody Allen
The Squid and the Whale -- Written by Noah Baumbach
Syriana -- Written by Stephen Gaghan
HONORARY AWARD
* To Robert Altman in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented the art form
and inspired filmmakers and audiences alike.
GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD
* Gary Demos
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)
* To DAVID GROBER for the concept and mechanical design and SCOTT LEWALLEN for the
electronic and software design of the Perfect Horizon camera stabilization head. Perfect
Horizon effectively neutralizes the extraneous motion encountered in boats, camera cars,
snowmobiles or other vehicles, leaving the pan/tilt head and camera stable and level with
the horizon. [Photography]
* To ANATOLIY KOKUSH, YURIY POPOVSKY and OLEKSIY ZOLOTAROV for the concept and development
of the Russian Arm gyro-stabilized camera crane and the Flight Head. The Russian Arm and
Flight Head opened new possibilities for filmmakers. With the ability to be mounted on the
roof of almost any car, this remotely-operated crane and camera head can move smoothly in
a 360 degree circle around the car, even while it is being driven at high speeds by
actors, creating heretofore impossible perspectives. [Camera Cranes]
* To ANATOLIY KOKUSH for the concept and development of the Cascade series of motion
picture cranes. The lightweight structure of the Cascade and Traveling Cascade Cranes
enables the filmmaker to achieve heights of up to 70 feet, allowing for the placement of
the camera in otherwise impossible locations. [Camera Cranes]
* To GARRETT BROWN for the original concept of the Skycam flying camera system – the
first use of 3-D volumetric cable technology for motion picture cinematography. In
creating the first remote-controlled, cable-supported flying camera system, Garrett
Brown’s pioneering efforts have influenced all subsequent development in this area of
technology. [Camera Cranes]
* To DAVID BARAFF, MICHAEL KASS and ANDREW WITKIN for their pioneering work in
physically-based computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion
pictures. Their 1998 paper titled "Large Steps in Cloth Simulation" was a
seminal work, providing the key in demonstrating to the industry that the calculations
necessary to simulate realistic, complex cloth could be achieved efficiently and robustly.
Their work provided the conceptual foundation for many cloth simulation systems in use
today. [Digital Imaging Technology]
* To LAURIE FROST, PETER HANNAN and RICHARD LONCRAINE for the development of the remote
camera head known as the Hot-Head. In use for over a quarter of a century, the Hot-Head
has brought the possibility of safe, remotely-operated shots to every filmmaker.
[Photography]
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)
* To GARY THIELTGES for the design and development of the remotely-operated, lightweight
camera head known as the Sparrow Head. This well-integrated remote system enables
filmmakers to remotely pan and tilt their camera from virtually any moving vehicle, giving
the opportunity for unprecedented dynamic camera angles. [Photography]
* To FRANK FLETCHER and DAVE SHERWIN for the introduction and continuing development of
the Power Pod modular camera head system. The Power Pod system enables filmmakers to
configure a remote controlled head to meet their own unique requirements. [Photography]
* To ALVAH MILLER, MICHAEL SORENSEN and J. WALT ADAMCZYK for the design and development of
the Aerohead motion control camera head and the J-Viz Pre-Visualization system. This
remote head not only serves the needs of the live-action filmmaker, but also provides the
functionality of a motion-controlled head, allowing for sophisticated tiling and
pre-visualization techniques. [Photography]
* To SCOTT LEVA for the design and development of the Precision Stunt Airbag for motion
picture stunt falls. The Precision Stunt Airbag is designed to envelop the stunt jumper,
even on off-center hits. This feature serves to enhance the safety of stunt performers in
falls from up to 200 feet. [Stage Operations]
* To LEV YEVSTRATOV, GEORGE PETERS and VASILIY ORLOV for the development of the Ultimate
Arm Camera Crane System for specialized vehicle photography. Representing a significant
evolutionary improvement in camera car technology, this remotely-controlled,
gyro-stabilized and flexible camera crane offers a highly stable platform for high-speed,
rough terrain action shots. Its ingenious applications of sophisticated technology solve
many of the problems inherent in chase vehicle filming. [Camera Cranes]
* To JAMES RODNUNSKY, ALEX MacDONALD and MARK CHAPMAN for the development of the Cablecam
3-D volumetric suspended cable camera technologies. The evolution of the Cablecam
technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a
three-dimensional space. [Camera Cranes]
* To TIM DRNEC, BEN BRITTEN SMITH and MATT DAVIS for the development of the Spydercam 3-D
volumetric suspended cable camera technologies. The evolution of the Spydercam technology
has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a
three-dimensional space. [Camera Cranes]
* To JOHN PLATT and DEMETRI TERZOPOULOS for their pioneering work in physically-based
computer-generated techniques used to simulate realistic cloth in motion pictures. Their
1987 paper "Elastically Deformable Models" was a milestone in computer graphics,
introducing the concept of physically-based techniques to simulate moving, deforming
objects. [Digital Imaging Technology]
* To ED CATMULL, for the original concept, and TONY DeROSE and JOS STAM for their
scientific and practical implementation of subdivision surfaces as a modeling technique in
motion picture production. Subdivision surfaces have become a preferred modeling primitive
for many types of motion picture computer graphics. [Digital Imaging Technology]
* To HAROLD RATTRAY, TERRY CLABORN, STEVE GARLICK, BILL HOGUE and TIM REYNOLDS for the
design, engineering and implementation of the Technicolor Real Time Answer Print System.
This system provides a method by which filmmakers can preview real-time color corrections
using actual film prints, reducing both the turnaround time and the number of reprints
required. [Laboratory]
* To UDO SCHAUSS and HILDEGARD EBBESMEIER for the optical design and NICOLE WEMKEN and
MICHAEL ANDERER for the mechanical design of the Cinelux Premiere Cinema Projection
Lenses. The Cinelux Premiere Lenses incorporate an iris and aspheric elements which
provide a more uniform modulation transfer function and better light transmission to the
sides and corners of the theater projection screen. This reduces the traditional problems
of softness in the corners, hot-spotting and varying brightness between film formats.
[Projection]
JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION
* To Don Hall in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high
standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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