2006 Oscar Articles

William Hurt in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence Alan Arkin, Peter O'Toole, Eddie Murphy: Oscar Veterans 2006 William Hurt William Hurt, nominated as Best Supporting Actor for David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. He lost to George Clooney in Stephen Gaghan's Syriana. Hurt had three previous nominations in the Best Actor category: Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), for which won in [...]

2006 Academy Awards 2006 Academy Award nominations: January 31, 2006 2006 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on March 5, 2006 2006 Oscar Ceremony 2006 Oscar Nominations ("*" denotes the winner in each category) Photos: © AMPAS   Best Film Brokeback Mountain, Diana Ossana and James Schamus Capote, Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael Ohoven * Crash, Paul Haggis [...]

Badgered by Sharon Colman (top); The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello by Anthony Lucas (middle); Ausreisser / The Runaway by Ulrike Grote (bottom) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present "Shorts!," featuring the ten Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated Short and Live-Action Short categories, on Tuesday, February 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The [...]

The Academy Award nominations are in. Brokeback Mountain (above, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) led the pack with 8 nods. Crash, Good Night and Good Luck., and Memoirs of a Geisha tied with six nominations each, while Munich and Capote received five nominations apiece. Of the aforementioned six films, the one left out of the best picture race was Memoirs of a Geisha. Even [...]