Crash: Best Picture · Ang Lee: directing
Oscars 2006: winning films and award nominations
Crash won Best Picture at the 2006 Oscars. The directing award went to Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain, while Reese Witherspoon received leading actress recognition for Walk the Line.
- 53Films
- 24Categories
- 109Nomination entries
- 16Winners
- March 5, 2006Ceremony date
Winning films and category recognition at Oscars 2006
Crash won Best Picture at the 2006 Oscars. Philip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote, while Reese Witherspoon received leading actress recognition for Walk the Line.
Nominated films and award entries at Oscars 2006
Brokeback Mountain and Capote competed for Best Picture alongside Crash at the 2006 Oscars. Explore their other category entries as well: a film can have several nominations and win in a different category.
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Wins are included in nomination counts.
Explore Oscars 2006 nominations and winners by category
Memoirs of a Geisha has winning entries in Cinematography and Costume Design at the 2006 Oscars. Compare that craft recognition with the nominated work in each category and the edition’s acting and directing awards.
Best Picture
5 nominations
Winner Crash Paul Haggis, Cathy Schulman Directing
5 nominations
Winner Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee Actor in a Leading Role
5 nominations
Winner Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman Actress in a Leading Role
5 nominations
Winner Walk the Line Reese Witherspoon Actor in a Supporting Role
5 nominations
Winner Syriana George Clooney Actress in a Supporting Role
5 nominations
Winner The Constant Gardener Rachel Weisz Animated Feature Film
3 nominations
Winner Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Nick Park, Steve Box Cinematography
5 nominations
Winner Memoirs of a Geisha Dion Beebe Costume Design
5 nominations Winner Memoirs of a Geisha Colleen Atwood Documentary (Feature)
5 nominations
Winner March of the Penguins Luc Jacquet, Yves Darondeau Documentary (Short Subject)
4 nominations
Winner A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin Corinne Marrinan, Eric Simonson Film Editing
5 nominations Winner Crash Hughes Winborne Foreign Language Film
5 nominations
Winner Tsotsi South Africa Makeup
3 nominations
Winner The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Howard Berger, Tami Lane Music (Original Score)
5 nominations Winner Brokeback Mountain Gustavo Santaolalla Music (Original Song)
3 nominations
Winner It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp Hustle & Flow Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, Paul Beauregard Art Direction
5 nominations Winner Memoirs of a Geisha John Myhre, Gretchen Rau Short Film (Animated)
5 nominations
Winner The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation John Canemaker, Peggy Stern Short Film (Live Action)
5 nominations
Winner Six Shooter Martin McDonagh Sound Mixing
5 nominations
Winner King Kong Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, Hammond Peek - Memoirs of a Geisha Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline, John Pritchett
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic, Tony Johnson
- Walk the Line Paul Massey, D.M. Hemphill, Peter F. Kurland
- War of the Worlds Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ronald Judkins
Visual Effects
3 nominations Winner King Kong Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, Richard Taylor Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
5 nominations Winner Brokeback Mountain Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana Writing (Original Screenplay)
5 nominations Winner Crash Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco Sound Editing
3 nominations Winner King Kong Mike Hopkins, Ethan Van der Ryn About these results
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- Ceremony date
- March 5, 2006
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- October 29, 2026
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Oscars 2006: Winners and Nominees
Philip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote, and Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line. Acting recognition at the 2006 Oscars sits alongside craft awards, including Cinematography for Memoirs of a Geisha.
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