81st Academy Awards Nominees

Major awards

Best Picture

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director

• Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
• Stephen Daldry – The Reader
• David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
• Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Actor

• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn – Milk
• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Actress

• Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
• Angelina Jolie – Changeling
• Melissa Leo – Frozen River
• Meryl Streep – Doubt
• Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Supporting Actor

• Josh Brolin – Milk
• Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
• Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams – Doubt
• Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis – Doubt
• Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Best Original Screenplay

• WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter
• Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
• Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
• In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
• Milk - Dustin Lance Black

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
• The Reader - David Hare
• Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
• Doubt - John Patrick Shanley

Best Animated Feature

• Bolt – Chris Williams and Byron Howard
• Kung Fu Panda – Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
• WALL-E – Andrew Stanton

Best Foreign Language Film

• Revanche (Austria) in German - Götz Spielmann
• The Class (France) in French - Laurent Cantet
• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany) in German - Uli Edel
• Departures (Japan) in Japanese - Yojiro Takita
• Waltz with Bashir (Israel) in Hebrew - Ari Folman

Other awards

Best Animated Short

• La Maison En Petits Cubes - Kunio Kato
• Lavatory - Lovestory - Konstantin Bronzit
• Oktapodi - Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
• Presto - Doug Sweetland
• This Way Up - Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best Art Direction

• Changeling – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
• The Dark Knight – Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
• The Duchess – Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
• Revolutionary Road – Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt

Best Cinematography

• Changeling – Tom Stern
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
• The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
• The Reader – Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
• Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Costume Design

• Australia – Catherine Martin
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jacqueline West
• The Duchess – Michael O'Connor
• Milk – Danny Glicker
• Revolutionary Road – Albert Wolsky

Best Documentary Feature

• Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)
• Encounters at the End of the World
• The Garden
• Man on Wire
• Trouble the Water

Best Documentary Short

• The Conscience of Nhem En – Steven Okazaki
• The Final Inch
• Smile Pinki
• The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

Best Film Editing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
• The Dark Knight – Lee Smith
• Frost/Nixon – Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley
• Milk – Elliot Graham
• Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens

Best Live Action Short

• On the Line (Auf der Strecke)
• Manon On the Asphalt
• New Boy (Ireland)
• The Pig (Grisen)
• Toyland (Spielzeugland)

Best Makeup

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Greg Cannom
• The Dark Knight – John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army – Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Best Original Score

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
• Defiance – James Newton Howard
• Milk – Danny Elfman
• Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
• WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

• "Down to Earth" from WALL-E – Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman (music), Peter Gabriel (lyrics)
• "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (music), Gulzar (lyrics)
• "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman and M.I.A.

Best Sound Editing

• The Dark Knight – Richard King
• Iron Man – Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
• Slumdog Millionaire – Tom Sayers
• WALL-E – Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
• Wanted – Wylie Stateman

Best Sound Mixing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
• The Dark Knight – Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
• Slumdog Millionaire – Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
• WALL-E – Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
• Wanted – Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Best Visual Effects

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
• The Dark Knight – Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin
• Iron Man – John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan