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Oscar Winners 2005

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The Aviator won six out of the eleven awards that it was nominated for, sweeping the night, thickly-browed director Martin Scorsese however was again snubbed for the honour.

Million Dollar Baby proved to be a major contender in Oscar's ring, winning four out of seven nominations, including the categories that really matter - Best Picture and Best Director. One of the night's biggest let downs of the night was Finding Neverland; also nominated for seven awards, the feature only brought in one, for "Achievement in music written for motion pictures (original score)".

Also with multiple wins were Ray and The Incredibles, both with two wins. The Incredibles, Lemony Snicket, and Spiderman 2 were the only highly-grossing winners of the night. The Aviator was the highest grossing Best Picture nominee this year, grossing $93.7 million in the US, making it just the 24th highest grossing film of 2004. Ray ($74.9 m) and Million Dollar Baby ($64.7 m) took second and third place in that aspect.

The show itself was relatively short, lasting just 3 hours and 10 minutes.

 

Feature and Short Films

• Best Motion Picture of the Year - Million Dollar Baby

• Best Foreign Language Film - The Sea Inside

• Best Animated Feature Film of the Year - The Incredibles

• Best Live Action Short Film - Wasp

• Best Animated Short Film - Ryan

Between Best Foreign Language Film and Best Animated Short Film, the National Film Board of Canada has received 67 nominations in the past 65 years of the Academy Awards.

Documentaries

• Best documentary feature - Born into Brothels

The popular and controversial Fahrenheit 9/11 was intentionally withheld from submission in the Best Documentary Feature Film category by producer Michael Moore, in order to submit it for broadcast on network television. Popular political documentaries Control Room and The Corporation were rendered ineligible by the fact that they had been broadcast in their entirety on network television within 9 months of their U.S. theatrical release.

• Best documentary short subject - Mighty Times: The Children's March

Acting

• Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
• Jamie Foxx - Ray

Host Chris Rock didn't need to mug Michael Silvers and Randy Thom for their Oscars, as he had jokingly promised in the weeks before the Oscars, as Foxx won on his own merit.

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby

This is the first time the Academy has nominated or awarded anyone playing a female boxer. Boxing movies have been considered a favourite to Oscar in its storied past.

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