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81st Academy Awards

February 22, 2009 · Honoring films from 2008

BEST PICTURE
Poster for Slumdog Millionaire
Christian Colson
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST DIRECTOR
Photo of Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST ACTOR
Photo of Sean Penn
Sean Penn
Milk
BEST ACTRESS
Photo of Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet
The Reader
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Poster for Slumdog Millionaire
Simon Beaufoy
Slumdog Millionaire
Category:
2008 (81st)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Sean Penn
Harvey Milk, Milk
Richard Jenkins
Walter, The Visitor
Frank Langella
Richard Nixon, Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt
Benjamin Button, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke
Randy, The Wrestler
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Heath Ledger
Joker, The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin
Dan White, Milk
Robert Downey Jr.
Kirk Lazarus, Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Father Brendan Flynn, Doubt
Michael Shannon
John Givings, Revolutionary Road
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Kate Winslet
Hanna Schmitz, The Reader
Anne Hathaway
Kym, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie
Christine Collins, Changeling
Melissa Leo
Ray Eddy, Frozen River
Meryl Streep
Sister Aloysius Beauvier, Doubt
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Penélope Cruz
Maria Elena, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Amy Adams
Sister James, Doubt
Viola Davis
Mrs. Miller, Doubt
Taraji P. Henson
Queenie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei
Cassidy, The Wrestler
Best Animated Feature Film
Andrew Stanton
WALL-E
Chris Williams, Byron Howard
Bolt
John Stevenson, Mark Osborne
Kung Fu Panda
Best Art Direction
Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
Changeling
Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
The Dark Knight
Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
The Duchess
Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
Revolutionary Road
Best Picture
Christian Colson
Slumdog Millionaire
Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner
Frost/Nixon
Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen
Milk
Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
The Reader
Best Cinematography
Anthony Dod Mantle
Slumdog Millionaire
Tom Stern
Changeling
Claudio Miranda
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wally Pfister
The Dark Knight
Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
The Reader
Best Costume Design
Michael O'Connor
The Duchess
Catherine Martin
Australia
Jacqueline West
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Danny Glicker
Milk
Albert Wolsky
Revolutionary Road
Best Director
Danny Boyle
Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard
Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant
Milk
Stephen Daldry
The Reader
Best Documentary (Feature)
James Marsh, Simon Chinn
Man on Wire
Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser
Encounters at the End of the World
Scott Hamilton Kennedy
The Garden
Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Trouble the Water
Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Megan Mylan
Smile Pinki
Steven Okazaki
The Conscience of Nhem En
Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
The Final Inch
Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
Best Film Editing
Chris Dickens
Slumdog Millionaire
Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Lee Smith
The Dark Knight
Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
Frost/Nixon
Elliot Graham
Milk
Best Foreign Language Film
Japan
Departures
Germany
The Baader Meinhof Complex
France
The Class
Austria
Revanche
Israel
Waltz with Bashir
Best Makeup
Greg Cannom
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Caglione Jr., Conor O'Sullivan
The Dark Knight
Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Best Original Score
A.R. Rahman
Slumdog Millionaire
Alexandre Desplat
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
James Newton Howard
Defiance
Danny Elfman
Milk
Thomas Newman
WALL-E
Best Original Song
A.R. Rahman, Gulzar
“Jai Ho”, Slumdog Millionaire
Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman
“Down To Earth”, WALL-E
A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam
“O Saya”, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Animated Short Film
Kunio Kato
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Konstantin Bronzit
Lavatory - Lovestory
Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
Oktapodi
Doug Sweetland
Presto
Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes
This Way Up
Best Live Action Short Film
Jochen Alexander Freydank
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Reto Caffi
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
Manon on the Asphalt
Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
New Boy
Tivi Magnusson, Dorte Høgh
The Pig
Best Sound Editing
Richard King
The Dark Knight
Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
Iron Man
Glenn Freemantle, Tom Sayers
Slumdog Millionaire
Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
WALL-E
Wylie Stateman
Wanted
Best Sound Mixing
Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
Slumdog Millionaire
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
The Dark Knight
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
WALL-E
Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt
Wanted
Best Visual Effects
Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin
The Dark Knight
John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan
Iron Man
Best Adapted Screenplay
Simon Beaufoy
Slumdog Millionaire
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley
Doubt
Peter Morgan
Frost/Nixon
David Hare
The Reader
Best Original Screenplay
Dustin Lance Black
Milk
Courtney Hunt
Frozen River
Mike Leigh
Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh
In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter
WALL-E