81st Academy Awards nominees – Important categories
February 20, 2009
Academy Awards


Best Picture:

Slumdog Millionaire

Milk

Frost/Nixon

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Reader

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

Richard Jenkins The Visitor

Sean Penn Milk

Frank Langella Frost/Nixon

Mickey Rourke The Wrestler

Brad Pitt The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


Best Actress in a Leading Role:

Kate Winslet The Reader

Meryl Streep Doubt

Anne Hathaway Rachel Getting Married

Angelina Jolie Changeling

Melissa Leo Frozen River

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

Heath Ledger The Dark Knight

Josh Brolin Milk

Philip Seymour Hoffman Doubt

Robert Downey Jr Tropic Thunder

Michael Shannon Revolutionary Road

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

Penelope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Viola Davis Doubt

Marisa Tomei The Wrestler

Taraji P. Henson The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Amy Adams Doubt

Best Director:

Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire

David Fincher The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Stephen Daldry The Reader

Gus Van Sant Milk

Ron Howard Frost/Nixon

Best Music Score:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Defiance

Milk

Slumdog Millionaire

Best Song:

Down To Earth – Wall-E

Jai Ho – Slumdog Millionaire

O Saya – Slumdog Millionaire


Best Animated Feature Film:

WALL-E

Kung-Fu Panda

Bolt

Best Foreign-Language Film:

Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)

The Class (France)

Departures (Japan)

Revanche (Austria)

Best Original Screenplay:

Frozen River Courtney Hunt

Happy-Go-Lucky Mike Leigh

In Bruges Martin McDonagh

Milk Dustin Lance Black

WALL-E Andrew Stanton/Jim Reardon

Best Adapted Screenplay:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Eric Roth

Doubt John Patrick Shanley

Frost/Nixon Peter Morgan

The Reader David Hare

Slumdog Millionaire Simon Beaufoy


Best Documentary:

The Betrayal Ellen Kuras/Thavisouk Phrasavath

Encounters at the End of the World Werner Herzog/Henry Kaiser

The Garden Scott Hamilton Kennedy

Man on Wire James Marsh

Trouble the Water Tia Lessin/Carl Deal

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