2009 Academy Awards (81st)

Best motion picture of the year

Winner:

Slumdog Millionaire

Nominees:

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Reader

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Winner:

Sean Penn in ~Milk~

Nominees:

Brad Pitt in ~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~

Frank Langella in ~Frost/Nixon~

Mickey Rourke in ~The Wrestler~

Richard Jenkins in ~The Visitor~

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Winner:

Heath Ledger in ~The Dark Knight~

Nominees:

Josh Brolin in ~Milk~

Michael Shannon in ~Revolutionary Road~

Philip Seymour Hoffman in ~Doubt~

Robert Downey, Jr. in ~Tropic Thunder~

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Winner:

Kate Winslet in ~The Reader~

Nominees:

Angelina Jolie in ~Changeling~

Anne Hathaway in ~Rachel Getting Married~

Melissa Leo in ~Frozen River~

Meryl Streep in ~Doubt~

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Winner:

Penélope Cruz in ~Vicky Cristina Barcelona~

Nominees:

Amy Adams in ~Doubt~

Marisa Tomei in ~The Wrestler~

Taraji P. Henson in ~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~

Viola Davis in ~Doubt~

Best animated feature film of the year

Winner:

WALL-E (Andrew Stanton)

Nominees:

Bolt (Chris Williams and Byron Howard)

Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne and John Stevenson)

Achievement in art direction

Winner:

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button film poster

Nominees:

~Changeling~
James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis

~Revolutionary Road~
Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt

~The Dark Knight~
Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando

~The Duchess~
Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway

Achievement in cinematography

Winner:

~Slumdog Millionaire~
Anthony Dod Mantle

Nominees:

~Changeling~
Tom Stern

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
Claudio Miranda

~The Dark Knight~
Wally Pfister

~The Reader~
Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design

Winner:

~The Duchess~
Michael O'Connor

Nominees:

~Australia~
Catherine Martin

~Milk~
Danny Glicker

~Revolutionary Road~
Albert Wolsky

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
Jacqueline West

Achievement in directing

Winner:

~Slumdog Millionaire~
Danny Boyle

Nominees:

~Frost/Nixon~
Ron Howard

~Milk~
Gus Van Sant

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
David Fincher

~The Reader~
Stephen Daldry

Best documentary feature

Winner:

~Man on Wire~

Nominees:

~Encounters at the End of the World~

~Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)~

~The Garden~

~Trouble the Water~

Best documentary short subject

Winner:

~Smile Pinki~
Megan Mylan

Nominees:

~The Conscience of Nhem En~

~The Final Inch~

~The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306~

Achievement in film editing

Winner:

~Slumdog Millionaire~
Chris Dickens

Nominees:

~Frost/Nixon~
Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley

~Milk~
Elliot Graham

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall

~The Dark Knight~
Lee Smith

Best foreign language film of the year

Winner:

~Departures~
Japan (in Japanese)
Yojiro Takita

Nominees:

~Revanche~
Austria (in German)
Götz Spielmann

~The Baader Meinhof Complex~
Germany (in German)
Uli Edel

~The Class~
France (in French)
Laurent Cantet

~Waltz with Bashir~
Israel (in Hebrew)
Ari Folman

Achievement in makeup

Winner:

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
Greg Cannom

Nominees:

~Hellboy II: The Golden Army~
Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz

~The Dark Knight~
John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan

Achievement in music written for motion pictures / Original score

Winner:

~Slumdog Millionaire~
A. R. Rahman

Nominees:

~Defiance~
James Newton Howard

~Milk~
Danny Elfman

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
Alexandre Desplat

~WALL-E~
Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures / Original song

Winner:

~Jai Ho~
from ~Slumdog Millionaire~
Music by A. R. Rahman
Lyrics by Gulzar

Nominees:

~Down to Earth~
from ~WALL-E~
Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
Lyrics by Peter Gabriel

~O Saya~
from ~Slumdog Millionaire~
Music and Lyrics by A. R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best animated short film

Winner:

~La Maison En Petits Cubes~
Kunio Kato

Nominees:

~Lavatory - Lovestory~
Konstantin Bronzit

~Oktapodi~
Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand

~Presto~
Doug Sweetland

~This Way Up~
Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

Winner:

~Toyland (Spielzeugland)~

Nominees:

~Manon On the Asphalt~

~New Boy~

~On the Line (Auf der Strecke)~

~The Pig~

Achievement in sound editing

Winner:

~The Dark Knight~
Richard King

Nominees:

~Iron Man~
Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes

~Slumdog Millionaire~
Tom Sayers

~WALL-E~
Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood

~Wanted~
Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

Winner:

~Slumdog Millionaire~
Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Ian Tapp

Nominees:

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten

~The Dark Knight~
Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick

~WALL-E~
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt

~Wanted~
Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects

Winner:

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron

Nominees:

~Iron Man~
John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan

~The Dark Knight~
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin

Adapted screenplay

Winner:

~Slumdog Millionaire~
Simon Beaufoy

Nominees:

~Doubt~
John Patrick Shanley

~Frost/Nixon~
Peter Morgan

~The Curious Case of Benjamin Button~
Eric Roth and Robin Swicord

~The Reader~
David Hare

Original screenplay

Winner:

~Milk~
Dustin Lance Black

Nominees:

~Frozen River~
Courtney Hunt

~Happy-Go-Lucky~
Mike Leigh

~In Bruges~
Martin McDonagh

~WALL-E~
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Winner:

Jerry Lewis

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Winner:

Edwin Catmull

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