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2005 Oscars 77th Academy Awards

Posted by Joe Hummel IIIPosted 20 years ago February 27, 2005

2005 Oscars 77th Academy Awards

Winners Announced: February 27, 2005
Held at: Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California
Host: Chris Rock
Eligibility Year: 2004

Trivia and Unforgettable Moments

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Million Dollar Baby stole the spotlight, winning Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, Best Actress for Hilary Swank, and Best Supporting Actor for Morgan Freeman.
“I’m just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.” – Hilary Swank, Best Actress
“There are a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.” – Clint Eastwood, Best Director
Jamie Foxx clinched Best Actor for his role in Ray, a biopic on Ray Charles. This award came in the same year Ray Charles was posthumously honored at the Grammys.
Cate Blanchett won Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator, making her the first actor to win an Oscar for portraying another Oscar-winning actor.
“I don’t have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You’d be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees – I think a lot of it’s imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?” – Cate Blanchett, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, The Aviator
Martin Scorsese was nominated for Best Director for The Aviator but lost to Clint Eastwood, adding another chapter to his long history of Oscar snubs.
The Incredibles snagged the Best Animated Feature award, beating out Shrek 2 and Shark Tale.
The Best Original Song went to Al Otro Lado del Río from The Motorcycle Diaries, making it the first song in Spanish to win in this category.
Adam Elliot’s Harvie Krumpet won for Best Animated Short Film, which follows the story of a man named Harvie, who has various unfortunate events happen to him throughout his life.
The documentary Born into Brothels, about children living in the red-light district of Calcutta, India, won Best Documentary Feature.
Thomas Newman, nominated for his score for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, did not win, continuing his streak as one of the most-nominated composers without a win.

2005 Oscar Nominees and Winners

Best Picture:
Million Dollar Baby – Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy and Tom Rosenberg, producers (WINNER)
The Aviator – Michael Mann and Graham King, producers
Finding Neverland – Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower, producers
Ray – Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin and Howard Baldwin, producers
Sideways – Michael London, producer

Best Director:
Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby (WINNER)
Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
Taylor Hackford – Ray
Alexander Payne – Sideways
Mike Leigh – Vera Drake

Best Actor:
Jamie Foxx – Ray as Ray Charles (WINNER)
Don Cheadle – Hotel Rwanda as Paul Rusesabagina
Johnny Depp – Finding Neverland as J. M. Barrie
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Aviator as Howard Hughes
Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby as Frankie Dunn

Best Actress:
Hilary Swank – Million Dollar Baby as Margaret “Maggie” Fitzgerald (WINNER)
Annette Bening – Being Julia as Julia Lambert
Catalina Sandino Moreno – Maria Full of Grace as María Álvarez
Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake as Vera Rose Drake
Kate Winslet – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Clementine Kruczynski

Best Supporting Actor:
Morgan Freeman – Million Dollar Baby as Eddie “Scrap-Iron” Dupris (WINNER)
Alan Alda – The Aviator as Owen Brewster
Thomas Haden Church – Sideways as Jack Cole
Jamie Foxx – Collateral as Max Durocher
Clive Owen – Closer as Larry Gray

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett – The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn (WINNER)
Laura Linney – Kinsey as Clara McMillen
Virginia Madsen – Sideways as Maya Randall
Sophie Okonedo – Hotel Rwanda as Tatiana Rusesabagina
Natalie Portman – Closer as Alice Ayres/Jane Jones

Best Original Screenplay:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth (WINNER)
The Aviator – John Logan
Hotel Rwanda – Terry George and Keir Pearson
The Incredibles – Brad Bird
Vera Drake – Mike Leigh

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Sideways – Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor based on the novel by Rex Pickett (WINNER)
Before Sunset – Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Kim Krizan based on characters created by Richard Linklater and Kim Krizan for the film Before Sunrise
Finding Neverland – David Magee based on the play The Man Who Was Peter Pan by Allan Knee
Million Dollar Baby – Paul Haggis based on stories from Rope Burns by F.X. Toole
The Motorcycle Diaries – José Rivera based on the books Con el Che por America Latina by Alberto Granado and The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara

Best Animated Feature Film:
The Incredibles – Brad Bird (WINNER)
Shark Tale – Bill Damaschke
Shrek 2 – Andrew Adamson

Best Foreign Language Film:
The Sea Inside (Spain) in Spanish, Catalan and Galician – Alejandro Amenábar (WINNER)
As It Is in Heaven (Sweden) in Swedish – Kay Pollak
The Chorus (France) in French – Christophe Barratier
Downfall (Germany) in German – Oliver Hirschbiegel
Yesterday (South Africa) in Zulu – Darrell Roodt

Best Documentary – Feature:
Born into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids – Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski (WINNER)
The Story of the Weeping Camel – Luigi Falorni and Byambasuren Davaa
Super Size Me – Morgan Spurlock
Tupac: Resurrection – Lauren Lazin and Karolyn Ali
Twist of Faith – Kirby Dick and Eddie Schmidt

Best Documentary – Short:
Mighty Times: The Children’s March – Robert Hudson and Robert Houston (WINNER)
Autism Is a World – Gerardine Wurzburg
The Children of Leningradsky – Hanna Polak and Andrzej Celinski
Hardwood – Hubert Davis and Erin Faith Young
Sister Rose’s Passion – Oren Jacoby and Steve Kalafer

Best Live Action Short Film:
Wasp – Andrea Arnold (WINNER)
7:35 in the Morning – Nacho Vigalondo
Everything in This Country Must – Gary McKendry
Little Terrorist – Ashvin Kumar
Two Cars, One Night – Taika Waititi and Ainsley Gardiner

Best Animated Short Film:
Ryan – Chris Landreth (WINNER)
Birthday Boy – Sejong Park and Andrew Gregory
Gopher Broke – Jeff Fowler and Tim Miller
Guard Dog – Bill Plympton
Lorenzo – Mike Gabriel and Baker Bloodworth

Best Original Score:
Finding Neverland – Jan A. P. Kaczmarek (WINNER)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – John Williams
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – Thomas Newman
The Passion of the Christ – John Debney
The Village – James Newton Howard

Best Original Song:
“Al otro lado del río” from The Motorcycle Diaries – Music and Lyrics by Jorge Drexler (WINNER)
“Accidentally in Love” from Shrek 2 – Music by Adam Duritz, Charlie Gillingham, Jim Bogios, David Immerglück, Matt Malley and David Bryson; Lyrics by Adam Duritz and Dan Vickrey
“Believe” from The Polar Express – Music and Lyrics by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri
“Learn to Be Lonely” from The Phantom of the Opera – Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyrics by Charles Hart
“Look to Your Path” from The Chorus – Music by Bruno Coulais; Lyrics by Christophe Barratier

Best Sound Editing:
The Incredibles – Michael Silvers and Randy Thom (WINNER)
The Polar Express – Randy Thom and Dennis Leonard
Spider-Man 2 – Paul N. J. Ottosson

Best Sound Mixing:
Ray – Scott Millan, Greg Orloff, Bob Beemer and Steve Cantamessa (WINNER)
The Aviator – Tom Fleischman and Petur Hliddal
The Incredibles – Randy Thom, Gary Rizzo and Doc Kane
The Polar Express – Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis S. Sands and William B. Kaplan
Spider-Man 2 – Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Joseph Geisinger

Best Art Direction:
The Aviator – Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo (WINNER)
Finding Neverland – Art Direction: Gemma Jackson; Set Decoration: Trisha Edwards
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs; Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
The Phantom of the Opera – Art Direction: Anthony Pratt; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
A Very Long Engagement – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Aline Bonetto

Best Cinematography:
The Aviator – Robert Richardson (WINNER)
House of Flying Daggers – Zhao Xiaoding
The Passion of the Christ – Caleb Deschanel
The Phantom of the Opera – John Mathieson
A Very Long Engagement – Bruno Delbonnel

Best Makeup:
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – Valli O’Reilly and Bill Corso (WINNER)
The Passion of the Christ – Keith VanderLaan and Christien Tinsley
The Sea Inside – Jo Allen and Manolo García

Best Costume Design:
The Aviator – Sandy Powell (WINNER)
Finding Neverland – Alexandra Byrne
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – Colleen Atwood
Ray – Sharen Davis
Troy – Bob Ringwood

Best Film Editing:
The Aviator – Thelma Schoonmaker (WINNER)
Collateral – Jim Miller and Paul Rubell
Finding Neverland – Matt Chessé
Million Dollar Baby – Joel Cox
Ray – Paul Hirsch

Best Visual Effects:
Spider-Man 2 – John Dykstra, Scott Stokdyk, Anthony LaMolinara and John Frazier (WINNER)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – Roger Guyett, Tim Burke, John Richardson and Bill George
I, Robot – John Nelson, Andrew R. Jones, Erik Nash and Joe Letteri
Academy Honorary Award
Sidney Lumet — In recognition of his brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award:
Roger Mayer