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The 78th Annual Academy Awards

  • TV Special
  • 20062006
  • 3h 34m
IMDb RATING
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The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006)
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Films contending for the annual awards include Brokeback Mountain (2005), Capote (2005), Crash (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) and Munich (2005).Films contending for the annual awards include Brokeback Mountain (2005), Capote (2005), Crash (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) and Munich (2005).Films contending for the annual awards include Brokeback Mountain (2005), Capote (2005), Crash (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) and Munich (2005).
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
1.2K
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  • Directors
    • Louis J. Horvitz
    • Roger Goodman(countdown show)
    • Troy Miller(opening film)
  • Writers
    • Josh Bycel
    • Jonathan Fener
    • Brendan Hay
  • Stars
    • Jon Stewart
    • Amy Adams
    • Moustapha Akkad(archive footage)
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  • Directors
    • Louis J. Horvitz
    • Roger Goodman(countdown show)
    • Troy Miller(opening film)
  • Writers
    • Josh Bycel
    • Jonathan Fener
    • Brendan Hay
  • Stars
    • Jon Stewart
    • Amy Adams
    • Moustapha Akkad(archive footage)
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    • Won 4 Primetime Emmys
      • 6 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Ben Stiller at an event for The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006)
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    Jennifer Garner at an event for The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006)
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    D.J. Paul, Juicy J, and Cedric Coleman at an event for The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006)
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    Meryl Streep at an event for The 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006)
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    Jon Stewart
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    Moustapha Akkad
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    • (archive footage)
    Jessica Alba
    Jessica Alba
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    Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert
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    Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali
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    Robert Altman
    Robert Altman
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    Jennifer Aniston
    Jennifer Aniston
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    Colleen Atwood
    Colleen Atwood
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    Lauren Bacall
    Lauren Bacall
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    Eric Bana
    Eric Bana
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    Anne Bancroft
    Anne Bancroft
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    Dion Beebe
    Dion Beebe
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    Barbara Bel Geddes
    Barbara Bel Geddes
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    Howard Berger
    Howard Berger
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    Nicole Berger
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    John Box
    John Box
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    Steve Box
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    • Directors
      • Louis J. Horvitz
      • Roger Goodman(countdown show)
      • Troy Miller(opening film)
    • Writers
      • Josh Bycel
      • Jonathan Fener
      • Brendan Hay
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    Films contending for the annual awards include Brokeback Mountain (2005), Capote (2005), Crash (2004), Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) and Munich (2005).
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    • reference to war of the worlds
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    • Trivia
      By the time the ceremony took place, the Best Documentary, Features winner La marche de l'empereur (2005) had out-grossed all 5 Best Picture nominees.
    • Quotes

      Jon Stewart: I do have some sad news to report: Björk couldn't be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.

    • Connections
      Featured in The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Travelin' Thru
      Written by Dolly Parton

      Performed by Dolly Parton

      [Best Song nominee from "Transamerica"]

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    Jon Stewart was a semi-relief.
    Jon Stewart, I suppose gave a good well done performance this year as MC of the 78th Academy Awards show. He's been known to be a lot funnier, but was a joy instead of seeing the usual regular hosts that normally include Billy Crystal, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg. His funny remarks to the 'gay' films this year were funny though.

    This year, the top prize of Best Picture was awarded to the independent feature 'Crash' starring Matt Dillion who also was nominated for Best Actor, but instead lost the award to the rather underrated character actor Phillip Seymore Hoffman for his role as the title character in 'Capote'. By far, I had actually expected that Joaquin Phoenix would win Best Actor for his performance as another title character this last year as legendary singer Johnny Cash in 'Walk the Line'. Nonetheless, his leading lady Reese Witherspoon gave a wonderful performance as June Cash in the film, which resulted her in a very much deserved Best Actress honor. For the supporting roles, Rachel Weiz got Supporting Actress, and George Clooney got Supporting Actor. Other films that got Academy Award notice included the gay romance film of two cowboys, "Brokeback Mountain" starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhall, both were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively; Steven Spielberg's 'Munich' got Best Picture nod and one film that was particularly overlooked was the summer's blockbuster remake of 'King Kong' which got more of less of Special Visual Effects recongization.

    The winner of Best Song was very very shocking, 'Hard Out there for a Pimp' was awarded to Three Hit Mafia and in turn it was quite an uproar as well.

    The other annual events that are shown at Oscar included the honorary segment, this year awarded to director Robert Altman; legendary actress Lauren Bacall presented a tribute to film-noir movies from the 40's and 50's; as a tribute to the much controversial gay films done this year, the Academy showed clips of western films with funny gay themes just for laughs anyway, and then there was usual touching In Memoriam tribute paying respects to film industry members that passed away in the previous year which included: Teresa Wright, Pat Morita, director Robert Newmyer, Dan O'Herhily, Vincent Schivelli, director Robert Wise, Chris Penn, John Mills, Sandra Dee, Anthony Franciosa, Barbara Bel Geddes, producers Debra Hill, Ismail Merchant, Moustapha Akkad, Eddie Albert, Shelley Winters, Anne Bancroft and Richard Pryor, just to name a few.
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    • Release date
      • March 5, 2006 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 78-я церемония вручения премии 'Оскар'
    • Filming locations
      • Kodak Theatre - 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood & Highland Center, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)
      • Dakota North Entertainment
      • Imaginary Forces
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    • Runtime
      3 hours 34 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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