The 2005 Academy Awards were presented March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre.
| Best Picture | Brokeback Mountain |
| Capote |
| Crash |
| Good Night, and Good Luck |
| Munich |
| Best Animated Picture | Howl's Moving Castle |
| Corpse Bride |
| Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit |
| Actor in a Leading Role | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote |
| Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow |
| Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain |
| Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line |
| David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck |
| Actress in a Leading Role | Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents |
| Felicity Huffman, Transamerica |
| Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice |
| Charlize Theron, North Country |
| Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | George Clooney, Syriana |
| Matt Dillon, Crash |
| Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man |
| Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain |
| William Hurt, A History of Violence |
| Actress in a Supporting Role | Amy Adams, Junebug |
| Catherine Keener, Capote |
| Frances McDormand, North Country |
| Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener |
| Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain |
| Directing | George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck |
| Paul Haggis, Crash |
| Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain |
| Bennett Miller, Capote |
| Steven Spielberg, Munich |
| Writing | | Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco, Crash | | George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Good Night, and Good Luck | | Woody Allen, Match Point | | Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale | | Stephen Gaghan, Syriana | | Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published | Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain | | Dan Futterman, Capote | | Jeffrey Caine, The Constant Gardener | | Josh Olson, A History of Violence | | Tony Kushner and Eric Roth, Munich |
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| Cinematography | Wally Pfister, Batman Begins |
| Rodrigo Prieto, Brokeback Mountain |
| Robert Elswit, Good Night, and Good Luck |
| Dion Beebe, Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Emmanuel Lubezki, The New World |
| Art Direction | Good Night, and Good Luck, James D. Bissell, Jan Pascale |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Stuart Craig, Stephanie McMillan |
| King Kong, Grant Major, Dan Hennah, Simon Bright |
| Memoirs of a Geisha, John Myhre, Gretchen Rau |
| Pride & Prejudice, Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer |
| Sound | Terry Porter, Dean A. Zupancic, and Tony Johnson, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges, and Hammond Peck, King Kong |
| Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Rick Kline, and John Pritchett, Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Paul Massey, Doug Hemphill, and Peter F. Kurland, Walk the LineAndy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, and Ron Judkins, War of the Worlds |
| Music | | Song | “It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp,” Hustle & Flow, Jordan Houston, Cedric Coleman, and Paul Beauregard | | “In the Deep,” Crash, Michael Becker and Kathleen York | | “Travelin' Thru, ” Transamerica, Dolly Parton | | Original Score | Gustavo Santaolalla, Brokeback Mountain | | Alberto Iglesias, The Constant Gardener | | John Williams, Memoirs of a Geisha | | John Williams, Munich | | Dario Marianelli, Pride & Prejudice |
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| Film Editing | Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill, Cinderella Man |
| Claire Simpson, The Constant Gardener |
| Hughes Winborne, Crash |
| Michael Kahn, Munich |
| Michael McCusker, Walk the Line |
| Costume Design | Gabriella Pescucci, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| Colleen Atwood, Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Sandy Powell, Mrs. Henderson Presents |
| Jacqueline Durran, Pride & Prejudice |
| Arianne Phillips, Walk the Line |
| Makeup | Howard Berger and Tami Lane, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| David LeRoy Anderson and Lance Anderson, Cinderella Man |
| Dave Elsey and Annette Miles, Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith |
| Visual Effects | Dean Wright, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney, and Scott Farrar, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| Joe Letteri, Brian Van't Hul, Christian Rivers, and Richard Taylor, King Kong |
| Pablo Helman, Dennis Muren, Randy Dutra, and Daniel Sudick, War of the Worlds |
| Sound Editing | Mike Hopkins and Ethan Van der Ryn, King Kong |
| Wylie Stateman, Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Richard King, war of the Worlds |
| Short Films | | Animation | Badgered (Sharon Colman) | | The Moon and the Son (John Canemaker and Peggy Stern) | | The Mysterious Geographic Exploratioons of Jasper Morello (Anthony Lucas) | | 9 (Shane Acker) | | One Man Band (Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez) | | Live Action | Ausreisser (Ulrike Grote) | | Cashback (Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager) | | The Last Farm (Runar Runarsson and Snaer Sigurjonsson) | | Our Time Is Up (Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente) | | Six Shooter (Martin McDonough) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | God Sleeps in Rwanda (Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman) | | A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (Corinne Marrinan and Eric Simonson) | | The Life of Kevin Carter (Dan Krauss) | | The Mushroom Club (Steven Okazaki) | | Feature | Darwin's Nightmare (Hubert Sauper) | | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney and Jason Kliot) | | March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet and Yves Darondeau) | | Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro) | | Street Fight (Marshall Curry) |
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| Foreign Language Film | Don't Tell, Italy |
| Joyeux Noël, France |
| Paradise Now, Palestine |
| Sophie Scholl—The Final Days, Germany |
| Tsotsi, South Africa |
| Honorary Award | Robert Altman |
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