2006 (79th Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 2006 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.
Best Picture
Actor in a Leading Role
Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland, Cowboy Films/Slate Films Production; Fox Searchlight. (UK, Germany)Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Animated Feature Film
Art Direction-Set Decoration
Pan’s Labyrinth, Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production; Picturehouse. (Mexico, Spain) Art direction by Eugenio Caballero; set decoration by Pilar Revuelta.Cinematography
Pan’s Labyrinth, Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production; Picturehouse. (Mexico, Spain) Guillermo Navarro.Costume Design
Marie Antoinette, I Want Candy, LLC Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (USA, France, Japan) Milena Canonero.Documentary
(Feature)
An Inconvenient Truth, Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production; Paramount Classics and Participant Productions. Davis Guggenheim.(Short Subject)
The Blood of Yingzhou District, Thomas Lennon Films Production. (China, USA) Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon.Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
The Lives of Others, Wiedemann & Berg Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Germany) Germany.Makeup
Pan’s Labyrinth, Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production; Picturehouse. (Mexico, Spain) David Martí and Montse Ribé.Music
(Original Score)
Babel, Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production; Paramount and Paramount Vantage. (France, USA, Mexico) Gustavo Santaolalla.(Original Song)
I Need to Wake Up from An Inconvenient Truth, Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production; Paramount Classics and Participant Productions. Music and lyric by Melissa Etheridge.Short Films
(Animated)
The Danish Poet, Mikrofilm and National Film Board of Canada Production; National Film Board of Canada. (Norway, Canada) Torill Kove.(Live Action)
West Bank Story, Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and Ashley Jordan Production. Ari Sandel.Sound Editing
Letters from Iwo Jima, DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production; Warner Bros. Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman.Sound Mixing
Dreamgirls, Laurence Mark Production; DreamWorks and Paramount. Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer and Willie Burton.Visual Effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Walt Disney Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Production; Buena Vista. John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall.Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
(Original Screenplay)
Honorary Award
To Ennio Morricone in recognition of his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music. [ [Statuette]]To Ioan Allen, J. Wayne Anderson, Mary Ann Anderson, Ted Costas, Paul R. Goldberg, Shawn Jones, Thomas Kuhn, Dr. Alan Masson, Colin Mossman, Martin Richards, Frank Ricotta and Richard C. Sehlin for their contributions to the environmentally responsible industry conversion from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks. [ [Award of Commendaton - Special Award Plaque]]To Richard Edlund for his outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation]]Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Scientific and Technical Award
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Phillip J. Feiner, Jim Houston, Denis Leconte and Chris Bushman of Pacific Title and Art Studio for the design and development of the Rosetta process for creating digital YCM archival masters for digital film restoration. With elements that may be recombined either digitally or optically, the Rosetta Separations process offers a uniquely great versatility in achieving high-quality results for digital YCM archiving.To Steve Sullivan, Colin Davidson, Max Chen and Francesco Callari for the design and development of the ILM Image-based Modeling System. This highly integrated system facilitates interactive construction and editing of 3D models from digital photographs and addresses the three-dimensional scanning needs of motion pictures in unique and innovative ways.To Dr. Bill Collis, Simon Robinson, Ben Kent and Dr. Anil Kokaram for the design and development of the Furnace integrated suite of software tools that robustly utilizes temporal coherence for enhancing visual effects in motion picture sequences. The Furnace toolset’s modularity, flexibility and robustness has set a high standard of quality for optical flow-based image manipulation.To Howard Preston and Mirko Kovacevic for the design and engineering of the Preston Cinema Systems FI+Z wireless remote system. Pioneering unprecedented reliability and flexibility in wireless lens and camera operation, the FI+Z has continued to be a leader in innovation since its introduction in 1994.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Joshua Pines and Chris Kutcka of Technicolor Digital Intermediates for the design and development of the TDI process for creating archival separations from digital image data. The TDI process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future.To William Feightner and Chris Edwards of E-Film for the design and development of the E-Film process for creating archival separations from digital image data. The E-Film process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future.To Albert Ridilla, Papken Shahbazian, Ronald Belknap and Jay McGarrigle for the design and development of the Hollywood Film Company Brumagic MPST Densitometer. The Brumagic MPST was designed specifically to measure density in the motion picture soundtrack and has become the densitometer of choice for reading soundtrack negative and positive densities worldwide.To Klemens Kehrer, Josef Handler, Thomas Smidek and Marc Shipman Mueller for the design and development of the Arriflex 235 Camera System. Designed for handheld photography, the features of this small, lightweight MOS camera also allow it to be used as a secondary production camera.To Florian Kainz for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating point, high dynamic range image files. Widely adopted, OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images.To Walter Trauninger and Ernst Tschida for the design and engineering of the Arri WRC wireless remote lens control system. This highly modular system permits accurate and reliable wireless control with multiple hand controls of all lens functions.To Christian Tschida and Martin Waitz of cmotion for the design and engineering of the cmotion Wireless Remote System. The graphical user interface of the cmotion System eases the difficult task of following focus, and the unique lens tag system recalls the calibration for each lens.To Peter Litwinowicz and Pierre Jasmin for the design and development of the RE:Vision Effects family of software tools for optical flow-based image manipulation. A unique user interface and relatively low cost have made these tools ubiquitous in the visual effects community.