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Oscars 2006: The Winners
Here is the list of winners from the 78th Academy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on March 5th:

Best Picture
Winner: Crash

Best Director
Winner: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain

Best Actor
Winner: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote

Best Actress
Winner: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: George Clooney - Syriana

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener

Best Animated Feature Film
Winner: Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Tsotsi (South Africa)

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Crash

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Brokeback Mountain

Best Documentary Feature
Winner: March of the Penguins

Best Cinematography
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Visual Effects
Winner: King Kong

Best Art Direction
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Film Editing

Best Sound Mixing
Winner: King Kong

Sound Editing
Winner: King Kong

Best Music (Song)
Winner: It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp - Hustle and Flow

Best Music (Score)
Winner: Brokeback Mountain

Best Costume Design
Winner: Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Make-Up
Winner: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the

Best Short Film
Winner: Six Shooter

Best Animated Short Film
Winner: The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

Best Documentary Short Subject
Winner: A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

Lifetime Achievement Award
Director and writer Robert Altman

Personal comments:

1. I suppose the bourgeois Academy voters ended up preferring a film of violence, hatred and blasphemy (Crash), to the painful soul-murder of a love that is suffocated by the societal demand that one should not speak its name (Brokeback Mountain).

2. Brokeback Mountain nominees relatively clearly seem to have been ignored, except for those nominations where it would have been obviously profane to turn a blind eye to them.

3. King Kong winning Oscars??? Please--who really cares about a big monkey sitting on top of buildings? Dumb and dumber....

4. Thank goodness for March of the Penguins!!