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Brokeback Mountain will lead this year’s list of Academy Award with eight nominations, including those for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor Heath Ledger and supporting players Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Williams. The 78th annual Academy Awards will be broadcast live on ABC from Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre on Sunday, March 5. Three films with six nominations are Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck and Memoirs of a Geisha, though Geisha was shut out in the top categories. Besides Ledger, Phoenix and Capote star Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terrence Howard scored a Best Actor nomination while for Best Actress, the race is considered to be heaviest between Witherspoon in Cash, and Huffman in Transamerica.

Here’s a list of Academy Awards nominees:

Best Picture:
- Brokeback Mountain
- Capote
- Crash
- Good Night, and Good Luck
- Munich

Best Actor:
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
- Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
- Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
- Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line
- David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck

Best Actress:
- Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents
- Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
- Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
- Charlize Theron, North Country
- Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line

Best Supporting Actor:
- George Clooney, Syriana
- Matt Dillon, Crash
- Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
- William Hurt, A History of Violence

Best Supporting Actress:
- Amy Adams, Junebug
- Catherine Keener, Capote
- Frances McDormand, North Country
- Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
- Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain

Best Director:
- Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
- Bennett Miller, Capote
- Paul Haggis, Crash
- George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck
- Steven Spielberg, Munich

Best Original Screenplay:
- Crash
- Good Night, and Good Luck
- Match Point
- The Squid and the Whale
- Syriana

Best Adapted Screenplay:
- Brokeback Mountain
- Capote
- The Constant Gardener
- A History of Violence
- Munich

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