Great Movies
78th annual Academy Awards announced Sunday.
Best Picture: "Crash" Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Capote" Actress: Reese Witherspoon, "Walk the Line" Supporting Actor: George Clooney, "Syriana" Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, "The Constant Gardener" Director: Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain" Foreign Film: "Tsotsi," South Africa. Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana, "Brokeback Mountain" Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, "Crash" Animated Feature Film: "Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit" Art Direction: "Memoirs of a Geisha" Cinematography: "Memoirs of a Geisha" Sound Mixing: "King Kong" (2006) Sound Editing: "King Kong" Original Score: "Brokeback Mountain," Gustavo Santaolalla Original Song: "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" from "Hustle and Flow," Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard Costume: "Memoirs of a Geisha" Documentary Feature: "March of the Penguins" Documentary (short subject): "A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin" Film Editing: "Crash" Makeup: "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" Animated Short Film: "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation" Live Action Short Film: "Six Shooter" Visual Effects: "King Kong"
Academy Award winners previously announced this year: Honorary Award (Oscar statuette): Robert Altman. The Gordon E. Sawyer award (Oscar statuette): Gary Demos.
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
