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The Oscar Nominee
Best Picture Fact Sheet

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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Focus Features Produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus This is the first nomination for Diana Ossana in this category. She is also nominated in the Adapted Screenplay category this year. This is the third nomination for James Schamus, and the first in this category. His other two nominations were in connection with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), for co-writing the Adapted Screenplay and for writing the lyric to the nominated song, “A Love Before Time.”

CAPOTE UA/Sony Pictures Classics Produced by Caroline Baron, William Vince and Michael Ohoven This is the first nomination for all three.

CRASH Lions Gate Films Produced by Paul Haggis and Cathy Schulman This is Paul Haggis’ first nomination in this category. He is also nominated this year for this film in the Directing and Original Screenplay categories. Paul Haggis was nominated last year for his adapted screenplay for Million Dollar Baby. This is the first nomination for Cathy Schulman.

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK Warner Independent Pictures Produced by Grant Heslov This is his first nomination in this category. He is also nominated for his Original Screeenplay.

MUNICH Universal and DreamWorks Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg and Barry Mendel This is Kathleen Kennedy’s fifth nomination, all in this category. Her other nominations were for E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), The Color Purple (1985), The Sixth Sense (1999) and Seabiscuit (2003). This is Steven Spielberg’s eleventh nomination and the fifth in this category. His other Best Picture nominations were for E.T., The Color Purple, Schindler’s List (1993), for which he took home an Oscar, and Saving Private Ryan (1998). He has six Directing nominations, for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), E.T., Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan - these last two resulting in Oscars - and this film. He also received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1986 for “consistently high quality of motion picture production.” This is Barry Mendel’s second nomination in this category; he was also nominated for The Sixth Sense.