King Kong, Narnia honoured with four Academy Awards (George Clowney wins an Oscar too!)

Radio New Zealand ^ | 6 Mar 2006 | Radio New Zealand

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King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe have taken away technical honours at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

The Peter Jackson-directed King Kong has won three of the four Academy Awards it was nominated for: visual effects, sound mixing and sound editing.

Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia has won an Oscar for make-up, but lost out to King Kong for its other two nominations in visual effects and sound mixing.

Philip Syemour Hoffman has won the Best Actor award for his portrayal of the waspish gay author Truman Capote, in the film Capote,, while Best Actress has been given to Reese Witherspoon, for her role in the Johnny Cash biopic, Walk The Line.

George Clooney has picked up an Oscar for his Supporting Actor role in the oil industry thriller, Syriana, while Rachel Weisz has won the equivalent Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Constant Gardener.

Other Oscars have gone to Memoirs of A Geisha for Costume Design, Six-Shooter for Short Film - Live Action, and The Moon and The Son for Short Film - Animated.

[Borges]

Nicholson:

"I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life."

[definitelynotaliberal]

Thanks. I'm stunned. But it is Jack, right? Not some other Nicholson?

[eleni121]

King "touchy-feely" Kong..finally watched it...man what that bad!