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The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 5, 2006. [12] Several notable achievements by multiple individuals and films occurred during the ceremony. Crash was the first Best Picture winner since 1976's Rocky to win only three Oscars. [ 13 ]
The 79th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2006 and took place February 25, 2007, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy ...
This is a list of Academy Award–winning films. If a film won the Academy Award for Best Picture , its entry is listed in a shaded background with a boldface title. Competitive Oscars are separated from non-competitive Oscars (i.e. Honorary Award, Special Achievement Award, Juvenile Award); as such, any films that were awarded a non ...
2006 Academy Awards may refer to: 78th Academy Awards, the Academy Awards ceremony that took place in 2006; 79th Academy Awards, the 2007 ceremony honoring the best ...
The 2006 Academy Awards were perhaps most noteworthy for the fact that "Crash" won the Oscar that year for Best Picture. The film beat out "Brokeback Mountain" and "Capote," which many in the film ...
Award Category Nominee Result Ref Academy Awards: Best Picture: Graham King: Won [1] Best Director: Martin Scorsese: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Mark Wahlberg: Nominated Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan: Won Best Film Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker: African-American Film Critics: Top Ten Films of the Year 3rd Place [2]
The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award of Merit for Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry.
The Oscar statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, [18] is given to winners of each year's awards. Made of gold-plated bronze on a black metal base, it is 13.5 in (34.3 cm) tall, weighs 8.5 lb (3.9 kg) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.