Hilary Swank stole the statue from her fellow nominee Annette Bening again, taking the Best Actress award for her role in the controversial film Million Dollar Baby. Clint Eastwood took Best Director and the film itself also won for Best Picture. Martin Scorcese and The Aviator crew may have been forgiven if they thought they would take off with the top awards, with early successes that evening for Best Supporting Actress, among others.
No suprises for Best Actor, with Ray’s Jamie Foxx winning the Oscar.
Following are some of the top winners.
BEST PICTURE
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg
DIRECTING
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Clint Eastwood
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Jamie Foxx, RAY
ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Morgan Freeman
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Hilary Swank
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, THE AVIATOR
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
THE INCREDIBLES
Brad Bird
ART DIRECTION
THE AVIATOR
Dante Ferretti (Art Direction); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decoration)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
THE AVIATOR
Robert Richardson
COSTUME DESIGN
THE AVIATOR
Sandy Powell
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
BORN INTO BROTHELS
Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski
DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
MIGHTY TIMES: THE CHILDREN’S MARCH
Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston
FILM EDITING
THE AVIATOR
Thelma Schoonmaker
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
THE SEA INSIDE
Spain
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
HONORARY AWARD
Roger Mayer
HONORARY AWARD
Sidney Lumet
MAKEUP
LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS
Valli O’Reilly and Bill Corso
MUSIC (SCORE)
FINDING NEVERLAND
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
MUSIC (SONG)
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
“Al Otro Lado Del RÃo”
Music and Lyric by Jorge Drexler
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
SIDEWAYS
Screenplay by Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman; Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth
SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
RYAN, Chris Landreth
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
WASP, Andrea Arnold
SOUND EDITING
THE INCREDIBLES
Michael Silvers and Randy Thom
SOUND MIXING
RAY
Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer and Steve Cantamessa
VISUAL EFFECTS
SPIDER-MAN 2
John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier