Winner 
78th Academy Awards
The 2005 file: winners first, ballot trails on demand, and the films that shaped the ceremony.
Ceremony at a glance
Best Picture went to Crash. The winning leader is Brokeback Mountain with 3 wins. The most nominated title is Brokeback Mountain with 8 nominations. 44 winners named across 29 categories.
Most awarded titles
- Brokeback Mountain 3 wins8 nominations
- Crash 3 wins6 nominations
- Memoirs of a Geisha 3 wins6 nominations
- King Kong 3 wins4 nominations
- Capote 1 win5 nominations
Best Picture Nominees
The major races
Crash took Picture; Brokeback Mountain controlled the board. Picture, Director, Actor and Actress: 4 of 4 decided, 20 nominees in all.
- Brokeback Mountain Diana Ossana | James Schamus
- Capote Caroline Baron | William Vince | Michael Ohoven
- Good Night, and Good Luck. Grant Heslov
- Munich Kathleen Kennedy | Steven Spielberg | Barry Mendel
Complete Ceremony Ledger
The winner in every category. Open the full ballot to see every nominee.
24 categories129 records44 winners
1 winner5 records
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Crash
Credit: Paul HaggisCathy Schulman
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Brokeback Mountain
Credit: Ang Lee
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Crash
Credit: Paul HaggisBobby Moresco
1 winner5 records
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Tsotsi
Credit: South Africa
1 winner5 records
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Credit: Colleen Atwood
1 winner5 records
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Credit: Dion Beebe
1 winner5 records
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Crash
Credit: Hughes Winborne
1 winner3 records
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1 winner4 records
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Six Shooter
Credit: Martin McDonagh
1 winner3 records
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Ceremony Highlights
Winner Syriana
Winner Walk the Line
Winner The Constant Gardener
Winner Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Winner Memoirs of a Geisha
Winner March of the Penguins
Winner A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Winner Tsotsi
Winner The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Winner Hustle & Flow
Winner The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation
Winner Six Shooter
Winner King Kong
Categories in this ceremony
Winner Circle
Crash
Ang Lee
Reese Witherspoon
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Rachel Weisz
George Clooney
Crash
Brokeback Mountain
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Tsotsi
Brokeback Mountain
It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp
Howard Berger and Tami Lane
Colleen Atwood
Dion Beebe
Hughes Winborne
Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor
Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau
Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson
Gary Demos
Robert Altman
Don Hall
Anatoliy Kokush
Anatoliy Kokush, Yuriy Popovsky and Oleksiy Zolotarov
David Baraff, Michael Kass and Andrew Witkin
David Grober and Scott Lewallen
Garrett Brown
Laurie Frost, Peter Hannan and Richard Loncraine
Alvah Miller, Michael Sorensen and J. Walt Adamczyk
Ed Catmull, TONY DeROSE and Jos Stam
Frank Fletcher and Dave Sherwin
Gary Thieltges
Harold Rattray, Terry Claborn, Steve Garlick, Bill Hogue and Tim Reynolds
James Rodnunsky, ALEX MacDONALD and Mark Chapman
John Platt and Demetri Terzopoulos
Lev Yevstratov, George Peters and Vasiliy Orlov
Scott Leva
Tim Drnec, Ben Britten Smith and Matt Davis
Udo Schauss, Hildegard Ebbesmeier, Nicole Wemken and Michael Anderer
John Canemaker and Peggy Stern
Martin McDonagh
Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn
Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
Sortable ledger
Every nomination from this ceremony as a sortable table, for research that needs the raw record beside the posters and winners above.