The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 5 , 2006 . Several notable achievements by multiple individuals and films occurred during the ceremony . '' Crash '' was the first Best Picture winner since 1976 's '' Rocky '' to win only three Oscars . Best Director winner Ang Lee became the first non-Caucasian winner of that category . For this first time since the 34th ceremony held in 1962 , all four acting winners were first-time nominees . Best Supporting Actor winner George Clooney was the fifth person to receive acting , directing , and screenwriting nominations in the same year and the first person to achieve this feat for two different films . By virtue of his nominations for both '' Memoirs of a Geisha '' and '' Munich '' , composer John Williams earned a total of 45 nominations tying him with Alfred Newman as the second most nominated individual in Oscar history . " It 's Hard out Here for a Pimp " became the second rap song to win Best Original Song and the first such song to be performed at an Oscars ceremony
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