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HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 5, 2006. Presenting the 78th Annual Academy Awards, for motion pictures released in 2005. The broadcast from ABC was presented in glorious HDTV, with phenomenal video and audio quality in full Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround. Although sometimes the mixing choices were a bit odd - no sound from the main left/right channels in the intro and a little too much audience in the mix, perhaps? And what is up with the music running underneath the acceptance speeches? Hello?

In any case, Big Picture Big Sound is pleased to bring you the Oscar winners in real-time, as they are announced. Reload or refresh this Web page as the evening progresses to find out who won LIVE.

Total Running Time this year was: 3:33:29 (hours:minutes:seconds).

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And the Oscars went to...

Best Supporting Actor:

• George Clooney, Syriana

Achievement in Visual Effects:

• Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers and Richard Taylor - King Kong

Best Animated Feature Film:

• WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT

Best Live Action Short Film:

• Six Shooter

Best Animated Short Film:

• The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation

Achievement in Costume Design:

• Colleen Atwood - Memoirs of a Geisha

Achievement in Makeup:

• Howard Berger and Tami Lane - Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Best Supporting Actress:

• Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener

Best Documentary Short Subject:

• A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

Best Documentary:

• March of the Penguins

Achievement in Art Direction:

• Art Direction: John Myhre, Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau - Memoirs of a Geisha

Best Original Score:

• Gustavo Santaolalla, Brokeback Mountain

Achievement in Sound Mixing:

• Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek - King Kong

Honorary Oscar:

• Robert Altman, Director

Best Original Song:

• Music and Lyrics: Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman and Paul Beauregard - "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" - Hustle and Flow

Achievement in Sound Editing:

• Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn - King Kong

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Tsotsi (South Africa)

Achievement in Film Editing:

• Hughes Winborne, Crash

Best Actor (in a leading role):

• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote

Achievement in Cinematography:

• Dion Beebe, Memoirs of A Geisha

Best Actress (in a leading role):

• Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Larry McMurty and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain

Best Original Screenplay:

• Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco, Crash

Best Director:

• Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain

Best Picture:

• Crash - Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman, Producers

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