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Official poster of the 78th Academy Awards

78th Academy Awards

Hosts

Preshow: Billy Bush, Chris Connelly, Cynthia Garrett, Vanessa Minnillo
Show: Jon Stewart

Crew

Producer: Gilbert Cates
Director: Louis J. Horvitz

Duration

TBA

Network

ABC

The 78th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 2005, are currently underway on March 5 2006 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, hosted by 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 this 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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For the second consecutive year, the field of major nominees did not include a bonafide blockbuster at the U.S. box office, with the nominees for Best Picture performing even more poorly than those of one year earlier.

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; one of the Documentary Feature nominees, March of the Penguins, earned more ($77.4 million) than any of the dramatic nominees, the first such occurrence in Academy history. To date, 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. Of the top 50 releases of 2005 in U.S. box office, 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; 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 will start at 5:00 P.M. PST, 30 minutes earlier than the previous seven ceremonies. The pre-show will be extended from its original thirty minutes to a full hour one hour before the ceremony. The Barbra 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 actually day of the ceremony, March 1 to accommodate these time changes.

Academy Award ceremony presenters and performers

Winners and Nominees

All nominees for the awards were announced by Academy president Sid Ganis and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino on Tuesday, January 31, 2006, at 5:30 AM PST in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Winners will be in bold:

Best Motion Picture

Achievement in Directing

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Best Animated Feature Film

Best Foreign Language Film

Adapted Screenplay

Original Screenplay

Achievement in Art Direction

Achievement in Cinematography

Achievement in Costume Design

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Short Subject

Achievement in Film Editing

Achievement in Makeup

Achievement in Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Score)

Achievement in Music Written For Motion Pictures (Original Song)

Best Animated Short Film

Best Live Action Short Film

Achievement in Sound Editing

Achievement in Sound

Achievement in Visual Effects

Films with multiple nominations

Eight

Six

Five

Four

Three

Two


See also

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