{"id":181404,"date":"2026-02-17T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181404\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:50:10","slug":"2006-oscars-flashback-hustle-flow-tsotsi-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181404\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 Oscars flashback: ‘Hustle & Flow,’ ‘Tsotsi,’ more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Flashy moments at the Academy Awards tend to go to \u201ctopliners\u201d \u2014 actors, directors, writers and best picture. But that doesn\u2019t mean the other categories can\u2019t shine bright. And during the 78th Oscars, held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on March 5, 2006, that\u2019s exactly what happened. Here\u2019s what unspooled in the animated feature, song, makeup, costume, foreign-language film (now called international feature film) and live-action short film categories 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

A first for South Africa \"Director <\/p>\n

Director Gavin Hood accepts the Oscar for the South African Oscar submission \u201cTsotsi.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Mark Boster \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cTsotsi,\u201d director Gavin Hood\u2019s film about a young troublemaker who carjacks a vehicle only to find a baby inside, racked up South Africa\u2019s first-ever Oscar win in the international feature category. It was the country\u2019s second nomination, and the first African film not made in French to win.<\/p>\n

Hood accepted the award from Will Smith and spoke briefly in Zulu before shifting to English: \u201cGod bless Africa.\u201d He singled out stars Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto, then added, \u201cWe may have foreign-language films, but our stories are the same as your stories. They\u2019re about the human heart and emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTsotsi\u201d was up against Italy\u2019s \u201cThe Beast in the Heart,\u201d France\u2019s \u201cJoyeux No\u00ebl,\u201d Palestine\u2019s \u201cParadise Now,\u201d and Germany\u2019s \u201cSophie Scholl \u2013 The Final Days.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keeping things animated \"Directors <\/p>\n

Directors Nick Park, left, and Steve Box accept their Oscars for animated feature for their work on \u201cWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Mark Boster \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Nick Park, who had three Oscars prior to this evening, picked up his fourth (with first-time winner Steve Box) for animated feature with the stop-motion film about monstrous lapins, \u201cWallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit\u201d \u2014 and the bow-tie-wearing director even brought bow-ties for the statuettes he and Box held.<\/p>\n

They pointed out Peter Sallis, who at the time had voiced Wallace in the \u201cWallace & Gromit\u201d films for 23 years, after accepting the statuettes from Reese Witherspoon. And together they honored another kind of star from the \u201cWallace\u201d films, chiming together, \u201cCracking cheese, Gromit!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWallace\u201d went up against Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s \u201cHowl\u2019s Moving Castle\u201d and \u201cTim Burton\u2019s Corpse Bride\u201d from Mike Johnson and Burton. \u201cCorpse\u201d and \u201cWere-Rabbit\u201d were the first stop-motion films to be nominated in the Oscars\u2019 animated feature category, first awarded in 2002.<\/p>\n

Easy street, even when it\u2019s hard \"Songwriter <\/p>\n

Front: Cedric Coleman, left, and Paul \u201cDJ Paul\u201d Beauregard. Rear: Darnell \u201cCrunchy Black\u201d Carlton, left, and Jordan \u201cJuicy J\u201d Houston accept the Oscar for original song for \u201cIt\u2019s Hard Out Here for a Pimp.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Mark J. Terrill \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Rap made a new foray into the original song category when \u201cIt\u2019s Hard Out Here for a Pimp,\u201d from \u201cHustle & Flow,\u201d became the second original song in the genre to win the category. \u201cLose Yourself\u201d from \u201c8 Mile\u201d was the first winner, in 2003, for Marshall Mathers (Eminem), Jeff Bass and Luis Resto.<\/p>\n

The award went to Jordan Houston (Juicy J), Cedric Coleman, and Paul Beauregard (DJ Paul), who accepted on stage with \u201cHustle\u201d star and singer Taraji P. Henson. After accepting the award from Queen Latifah, Beauregard gave a lot of shout-outs to friends and family \u2014 and, surprisingly, fellow Oscar winner George Clooney: \u201cMy favorite man, he showed me love when I first met him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPimp\u201d won out over \u201cIn the Deep\u201d from the night\u2019s best picture winner \u201cCrash,\u201d with music by Kathleen \u201cBird\u201d York and Michael Becker and lyrics by York; and \u201cTravelin\u2019 Thru\u201d from \u201cTransamerica,\u201d music and lyrics by Dolly Parton.<\/p>\n

Short, but with a long tail \"Writer <\/p>\n

Writer Martin McDonagh accepts the Oscar for live-action short for the film \u201cSix Shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Mark Boster \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Though the short film (live action) Oscar doesn\u2019t always prove to be a harbinger for the future, in the case of 2006\u2019s winner \u2014 \u201cSix Shooter\u201d from director and five-time Tony-nominated playwright Martin McDonagh \u2014 it was an early sign of things to come. This was McDonagh\u2019s first nomination and win; two years later he\u2019d go on to direct features, starting with \u201cIn Bruges,\u201d ultimately earning six more Academy Award nominations.<\/p>\n

McDonagh was up against \u201cCashback\u201d by Sean Ellis and Lene Bausager, \u201cThe Last Farm\u201d by R\u00fanar R\u00fanarsson and Thor S. Sigurj\u00f3nsson, \u201cOur Time Is Up\u201d by Rob Pearlstein and Pia Clemente, and \u201cThe Runaway (Ausrei\u00dfer)\u201d by Ulrike Grote.<\/p>\n

Getting dressed and made up \"Colleen <\/p>\n

Colleen Atwood accepts the Oscar for achievement in costume design for her work on \u201cMemoirs of a Geisha.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Mark J. Terrill \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

The categories for makeup and costume design provided first-timers and a prior Oscar winner. \u201cThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\u201d earned awards for Howard Berger and Tami Lane, neither of whom had been nominated before. They accepted the awards from Will Ferrell and Steve Carell \u2014 and Clooney got another shout-out from Berger: \u201cI\u2019m just glad that Clooney doesn\u2019t do makeup.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNarnia\u201d was up against work from David LeRoy Anderson and Lance Anderson for \u201cCinderella Man\u201d and Dave Elsey and Nikki Gooley\u2019s craft on \u201cStar Wars: Episode III \u2014 Revenge of the Sith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Colleen Atwood, who now has four Oscars for her costume design work, picked up her second statuette for her outfits on \u201cMemoirs of a Geisha.\u201d After accepting the award from Jennifer Aniston, she thanked her co-workers on the film, then gave a separate thanks to \u201cthe people of Japan, who gave me so much knowledge and grace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Atwood and \u201cGeisha\u201d had been up against Gabriella Pescucci (\u201cCharlie and the Chocolate Factory\u201d), Sandy Powell (\u201cMrs. Henderson Presents\u201d), Jacqueline Durran (\u201cPride & Prejudice\u201d) and Arianne Phillips (\u201cWalk the Line\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flashy moments at the Academy Awards tend to go to \u201ctopliners\u201d \u2014 actors, directors, writers and best picture.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6758,1758,5592,86031,86033,86035,48,52,51,47,50,49,9212,330,48465,48049,86036,2850,86034,86032,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-181404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-award","9":"tag-director","10":"tag-feature","11":"tag-foreign-language-film","12":"tag-gromit","13":"tag-hustle","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-headlines","16":"tag-la-news","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","19":"tag-los-angeles-news","20":"tag-makeup","21":"tag-music","22":"tag-oscar","23":"tag-oscars","24":"tag-other-category","25":"tag-star","26":"tag-statuette","27":"tag-wallace","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}