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Oscars 2006 Winners & Nominees

The 78th Academy Awards (2006) took place on March 5, 2006. Crash won Best Picture and 2 more awards. Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha and King Kong matched it with 3 wins. Every winner and nominee in all 21 categories is below.

All 21 categories Most wins
categories
21
nominations
92
films nominated
37
winners
20
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Best Picture
Crash
Headline winners

Oscars 2006: The Winners

Crash won Best Picture against 4 other nominees. Ang Lee (Best Director), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Best Actor) and Reese Witherspoon (Best Actress) took the main individual prizes.

Crash (2005) movie poster Best Picture

Best Picture

Crash

2005 · Drama, Crime · $98.4M worldwide

3 wins from 6 nominations at the 78th Academy Awards (2006)

  • Best Film Editing
  • Best Original Screenplay

In the racially diverse and often tense atmosphere of Los Angeles, the lives of several strangers become unexpectedly intertwined. Through a series of escalating events, their stories collide, exposing hidden prejudices and challenging their assumptions about one another. As these characters confront their biases and fears, they reveal the complex realities of human connection and the delicate balance of tolerance in a fractured society.

About Crash
Scoreboard

Oscars 2006: Which Films Won the Most

Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha, Crash and King Kong won 3 awards each. 12 films won at least once, while Good Night, and Good Luck. went home empty-handed from 6 nominations. Green is wins, blue is nominations.

  1. Brokeback Mountain (2005) movie poster
    Brokeback Mountain 3 / 8
    2005 · Drama, Romance · 3 wins from 8 nominations
  2. Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) movie poster
    Memoirs of a Geisha 3 / 6
    2005 · Drama, Romance · 3 wins from 6 nominations
  3. Crash (2005) movie poster
    Crash 3 / 6
    2005 · Drama, Crime · 3 wins from 6 nominations
  4. King Kong (2005) movie poster
    King Kong 3 / 4
    2005 · Adventure, Drama · 3 wins from 4 nominations
  5. Capote (2005) movie poster
    Capote 1 / 5
    2005 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 5 nominations
  6. Walk the Line (2005) movie poster
    Walk the Line 1 / 5
    2005 · Biography, Drama · 1 win from 5 nominations
  7. The Constant Gardener (2005) movie poster
    The Constant Gardener 1 / 4
    2005 · Drama, Thriller · 1 win from 4 nominations
  8. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) movie poster
    The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 1 / 3
    2005 · Adventure, Fantasy · 1 win from 3 nominations
  9. Syriana (2005) movie poster
    Syriana 1 / 2
    2005 · Drama, Thriller · 1 win from 2 nominations
  10. Hustle & Flow (2005) movie poster
    Hustle & Flow 1 / 2
    2005 · Drama, Crime · 1 win from 2 nominations
Full results

All 21 Oscars 2006 Categories: Winners & Nominees

21 categories and 92 nominations. The winner of each comes first, on a green row. Search for a film or a person, show only the winners, or jump straight to a category.

21 categories · 92 nominations

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Movie marathon

The Oscars 2006 Best Picture Marathon

All 5 Best Picture nominees at the 78th Academy Awards (2006), back to back: 10 hours 17 minutes.

Total running time 10h 17m 10 hours 17 minutes All 5 films
Longest
Munich 2h 44m
Shortest
Good Night, and Good Luck. 1h 33m
By genre

The Genres Behind the Oscars 2006 Winners

Drama led with 80 nominations across 27 films and won 18. A film with several genres counts for each one.

  1. Drama 18 wins · 80 nominations · 23%
  2. Romance 11 wins · 33 nominations · 33%
  3. Crime 6 wins · 22 nominations · 27%
  4. Thriller 2 wins · 18 nominations · 11%
  5. Adventure 4 wins · 15 nominations · 27%
  6. Biography 2 wins · 14 nominations · 14%
  7. History 0 wins · 12 nominations · 0%
  8. Music 2 wins · 9 nominations · 22%
  9. Western 3 wins · 8 nominations · 38%
  10. Fantasy 1 win · 7 nominations · 14%
2006 season

How the Rest of the 2006 Awards Season Voted

The other 9 ceremonies of 2006, with the winner of each top prize. Crash also won the top prize at one of them. Brokeback Mountain won the most of them: 5.

All 2006 awards
Earlier years

Previous Oscars Ceremonies

The 6 ceremonies before this one, with the winner of each top prize. The Oscars page has every year back to 1929.

Every Oscars ceremony

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Oscars 2006: Questions & Answers

The top prize, the film that won the most, the most-nominated film, the individual winners and the date of the 78th Academy Awards (2006), answered from the results on this page.

Who won Best Picture at the 78th Academy Awards (2006)?

Crash (2005) won Best Picture. The other nominees were Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night, and Good Luck. and Munich.

About Crash

Which film won the most awards at the 78th Academy Awards (2006)?

Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha, Crash and 1 other each won 3 awards.

Which film had the most nominations at the 78th Academy Awards (2006)?

Brokeback Mountain (2005) led with 8 nominations and won 3 of them.

Who won the acting and directing awards at the 78th Academy Awards (2006)?

Best Director: Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain. Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote. Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line. Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney for Syriana. Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener.

When was the 78th Academy Awards (2006)?

The 78th Academy Awards (2006) took place on March 5, 2006. The database has 21 categories and 92 nominations for it.