Best Picture Winner
Million Dollar Baby
Best Picture
Director: Clint Eastwood
Studio: Warner Bros.
A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional in the boxing industry.
All Categories (30)
Animated Feature Film
The Incredibles— Brad Bird
Winner
Shark Tale— Bill Damaschke
Shrek 2— Andrew Adamson
Best Picture
Million Dollar Baby— Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg, Producers
Winner
Finding Neverland— Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower, Producers
Ray— Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin and Howard Baldwin, Producers
Sideways— Michael London, Producer
The Aviator— Michael Mann and Graham King, Producers
Actor In A Leading Role
Clint Eastwood— Million Dollar Baby {"Frankie Dunn"}
Don Cheadle— Hotel Rwanda {"Paul Rusesabagina"}
Johnny Depp— Finding Neverland {"Sir James Matthew Barrie"}
Leonardo DiCaprio— The Aviator {"Howard Hughes"}
Actor In A Supporting Role
Alan Alda— The Aviator {"Senator Ralph Owen Brewster"}
Clive Owen— Closer {"Larry"}
Jamie Foxx— Collateral {"Max"}
Thomas Haden Church— Sideways {"Jack"}
Actress In A Leading Role
Annette Bening— Being Julia {"Julia Lambert"}
Catalina Sandino Moreno— Maria Full of Grace {"Maria"}
Imelda Staunton— Vera Drake {"Vera"}
Kate Winslet— Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind {"Clementine Kruczynski"}
Actress In A Supporting Role
Laura Linney— Kinsey {"Clara McMillen"}
Natalie Portman— Closer {"Alice"}
Sophie Okonedo— Hotel Rwanda {"Tatiana Rusesabagina"}
Virginia Madsen— Sideways {"Maya"}
Directing
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Sideways— Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
Winner
Before Sunset— Screenplay by Richard Linklater & Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke; Story by Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan
Finding Neverland— Screenplay by David Magee
Million Dollar Baby— Screenplay by Paul Haggis
The Motorcycle Diaries— Screenplay by José Rivera
Writing (Original Screenplay)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind— Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman; Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
Winner
Hotel Rwanda— Written by Keir Pearson & Terry George
The Aviator— Written by John Logan
The Incredibles— Written by Brad Bird
Vera Drake— Written by Mike Leigh
Cinematography
The Aviator— Robert Richardson
Winner
A Very Long Engagement— Bruno Delbonnel
House of Flying Daggers— Zhao Xiaoding
The Passion of the Christ— Caleb Deschanel
The Phantom of the Opera— John Mathieson
Music (Original Score)
Finding Neverland— Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Winner
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban— John Williams
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events— Thomas Newman
The Passion of the Christ— John Debney
The Village— James Newton Howard
Music (Original Song)
"Al Otro Lado Del Río" from The Motorcycle Diaries— Music and Lyric by Jorge Drexler
Winner
"Accidentally In Love" from Shrek 2— Music by Adam Duritz, Charles Gillingham, Jim Bogios, David Immergluck, Matthew Malley and David Bryson; Lyric by Adam Duritz and Daniel Vickrey
"Believe" from The Polar Express— Music and Lyric by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri
"Learn To Be Lonely" from The Phantom of the Opera— Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyric by Charles Hart
"Look To Your Path (Vois Sur Ton Chemin)" from The Chorus (Les Choristes)— Music by Bruno Coulais; Lyric by Christophe Barratier
Art Direction
The Aviator— Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
Winner
A Very Long Engagement— Art Direction: Aline Bonetto
Finding Neverland— Art Direction: Gemma Jackson; Set Decoration: Trisha Edwards
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events— Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
The Phantom of the Opera— Art Direction: Anthony Pratt; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
Visual Effects
Spider-Man 2— John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier
Winner
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban— Roger Guyett, Tim Burke, John Richardson and Bill George
I, Robot— John Nelson, Andrew R. Jones, Erik Nash and Joe Letteri
Film Editing
The Aviator— Thelma Schoonmaker
Winner
Collateral— Jim Miller and Paul Rubell
Finding Neverland— Matt Chesse
Million Dollar Baby— Joel Cox
Ray— Paul Hirsch
Sound Editing
The Incredibles— Michael Silvers and Randy Thom
Winner
Spider-Man 2— Paul N.J. Ottosson
The Polar Express— Randy Thom and Dennis Leonard
Sound Mixing
Ray— Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer and Steve Cantamessa
Winner
Spider-Man 2— Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Joseph Geisinger
The Aviator— Tom Fleischman and Petur Hliddal
The Incredibles— Randy Thom, Gary A. Rizzo and Doc Kane
The Polar Express— Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands and William B. Kaplan
Costume Design
The Aviator— Sandy Powell
Winner
Finding Neverland— Alexandra Byrne
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events— Colleen Atwood
Ray— Sharen Davis
Troy— Bob Ringwood
Makeup
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events— Valli O'Reilly and Bill Corso
Winner
The Passion of the Christ— Keith Vanderlaan and Christien Tinsley
The Sea Inside— Jo Allen and Manuel García
Documentary (Feature)
Born into Brothels— Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
Winner
Super Size Me— Morgan Spurlock
The Story of the Weeping Camel— Luigi Falorni and Byambasuren Davaa
Tupac: Resurrection— Lauren Lazin and Karolyn Ali
Twist of Faith— Kirby Dick and Eddie Schmidt
Documentary (Short Subject)
Mighty Times: The Children's March— Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston
Winner
Autism Is a World— Gerardine Wurzburg
Hardwood— Hubert Davis and Erin Faith Young
Sister Rose's Passion— Oren Jacoby and Steve Kalafer
The Children of Leningradsky— Hanna Polak and Andrzej Celinski
Short Film (Animated)
Ryan— Chris Landreth
Winner
Birthday Boy— Sejong Park and Andrew Gregory
Gopher Broke— Jeff Fowler and Tim Miller
Guard Dog— Bill Plympton
Lorenzo— Mike Gabriel and Baker Bloodworth
Short Film (Live Action)
Wasp— Andrea Arnold
Winner
7:35 in the Morning (7:35 de la Mañana)— Nacho Vigalondo
Everything in This Country Must— Gary McKendry
Little Terrorist— Ashvin Kumar
Two Cars, One Night— Taika Waititi and Ainsley Gardiner
Foreign Language Film
The Sea Inside— Spain
Winner
As It Is in Heaven— Sweden
Downfall— Germany
The Chorus (Les Choristes)— France
Yesterday— South Africa
Award Of Commendation
To Arthur Widmer for his lifetime of achievement in the science and technology of image compositing for motion pictures as exemplified by his significant contributions to the development of the Ultra Violet and the "bluescreen" compositing processes.
Winner
Honorary Award
To Sidney Lumet in recognition of his brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture.
Winner
GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD
Takuo Miyagishima
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Roger Mayer
Winner
Scientific And Technical Award (Academy Award Of Merit)
To HORST BURBULLA for the invention and continuing development of the Technocrane telescoping camera crane. With its electronically driven leveling head, adjustable moveable weight carriage, and lightweight, extremely precise telescoping beam elements that allow camera movement during shots, the Technocrane has redefined the state-of-the-art in camera crane technology. [Camera Cranes]
Winner
To JEAN-MARIE LAVALOU, ALAIN MASSERON and DAVID SAMUELSON for the engineering and development of the Louma Camera Crane and remote system for motion picture production. The Louma pioneered a remotely-operated camera head combined with a lightweight and portable modular crane. Its design has proved to be the inspiration for numerous subsequent remote camera systems. [Camera Cranes]
Scientific And Technical Award (Scientific And Engineering Award)
To GYULA MESTER (electronic systems design) and KEITH EDWARDS (mechanical engineering) for their significant contributions to and continuing development of the Technocrane telescoping camera crane. With its electronically driven leveling head, adjustable moveable weight carriage, and lightweight, extremely precise telescoping beam elements that allow camera movement during shots, the Technocrane has redefined the state-of-the-art in camera crane technology. [Camera Cranes]
Winner
To LINDSAY ARNOLD, GUY GRIFFITHS, DAVID HODSON, CHARLIE LAWRENCE and DAVID MANN for their development of the Cineon Digital Film Workstation. Cineon pioneered a commercial node-graph compositing system establishing a new visual method for direct manipulation of the compositing process, which influenced and defined modern digital compositing workflows. [Digital Imaging Technology]
Scientific And Technical Award (Technical Achievement Award)
To GREG CANNOM and WESLEY WOFFORD for the development of their special modified silicone material for makeup appliances used in motion pictures. This proprietary modified silicone makeup system allows for the creation of either partial or full-face appliances for motion picture makeup effects that move like real flesh, have translucency similar to skin and will accept standard makeup materials. [Systems]
Winner
To ALAN KAPLER for the design and development of "Storm," a software toolkit for artistic control of volumetric effects. "Storm" employs an efficient method for directly manipulating volumetric data to create effects such as clouds, water and avalanches with familiar operators inspired by image compositing and painting operations. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To DR. CHRISTOPHER HICKS and DAVE BETTS for the design and implementation of the Cedar DNS 1000 multi-band digital noise suppressor. The Cedar DNS 1000 is specifically designed to reduce background noise from recorded motion picture dialog. With its precise filters it allows the frequency ranges to be altered or even cascaded to pinpoint and reduce the offending noise. [Sound]
To DR. JOHN O.B. GREAVES, NED PHIPPS, ANTONIE J. VAN DEN BOGERT and WILLIAM HAYES for the development of the Motion Analysis motion capture technology. Motion Analysis Corporation developed special-purpose cameras for motion capture with software systems that maximized their impact on the motion picture industry. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To DR. JULIAN MORRIS, MICHAEL BIRCH, DR. PAUL SMYTH and PAUL TATE for the development of the Vicon motion capture technology. Vicon Motion Systems developed special-purpose cameras for motion capture with software systems that maximized their impact on the motion picture industry. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To DR. NELS MADSEN, VAUGHN CATO, MATTHEW MADDEN and BILL LORTON for the development of the Giant Studios motion capture technology. The software solution created by Giant Studios applied a unique biometric approach that has influenced the development of motion capture technology for motion pictures. [Digital Imaging Technology]
To JERRY COTTS for the original concept and design and ANTHONY SEAMAN for the engineering of the Satellight-X HMI Softlight. With its large radiating surface and thin profile, this collapsible, self-contained HMI softlight provides a diffuse light to simulate daylight in location interiors, where space is often limited. [Lighting]
To NELSON TYLER for the development of the Tyler Gyroplatform boat mount stabilizing device for motion picture photography. As a pioneer in this area of motion picture technology, Tyler's 2-axis, hydraulically-powered camera mount successfully eliminates the pitch and roll associated with camera shots taken from a boat in the water. [Photography]
To STEVEN E. BOZE for the design and implementation of the DNF 001 multi-band digital audio noise suppressor. Designed in the early 1990s when digital signal processing was in its early stages, the real-time digital approach of the DNF 001 provided accurate filter response with minimal interaction, allowing noise attenuation with fewer artifacts. [Sound]