Oscar Highlights 2006
This is a selection of Oscar Highlights from 2006 (The 85rd Academy Awards). If you rate all the films from this list, you will earn the Oscars 2006 Highlights Badge on your profile page. Get Other Oscar Highlights Badges!
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1.
Crash
(2004)
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. (112 mins.)
Director: Paul Haggis
2.
Brokeback Mountain
(2005)
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years. (134 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
3.
Capote
(2005)
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row. (114 mins.)
Director: Bennett Miller
4.
Syriana
(2005)
A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it. (128 mins.)
Director: Stephen Gaghan
5.
The Constant Gardener
(2005)
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption. (129 mins.)
Director: Fernando Meirelles
6.
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(2005)
Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest. (85 mins.)
7.
March of the Penguins
(2005 Documentary)
In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. (80 mins.)
Director: Luc Jacquet