81st Academy Awards winners-VIDEO

Best Picture Best Director

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



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

Best Actor Best Actress

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



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

Best Supporting Actor Best Supporting Actress

* Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous award)
o Josh Brolin – Milk
o Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
o Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
o Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road



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

Best Original Screenplay Best Adapted Screenplay

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



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

Best Animated Feature Best Foreign Language Film

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



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


Best Art Direction Best Cinematography

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



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

Best Costume Design Best Documentary Feature
* The Duchess – Michael O'Connor
o Australia – Catherine Martin
o The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jacqueline West
o Milk – Danny Glicker
o Revolutionary Road – Albert Wolsky



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

Best Documentary Short Best Animated Short
* Smile Pinki – Megan Mylan
o The Conscience of Nhem En – Steven Okazaki
o The Final Inch
o The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306



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

Best Live Action Short Best Film Editing

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



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

Best Makeup Best Original Score

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



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

Best Original Song Best Sound Editing

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



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

Best Sound Mixing Best Visual Effects

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



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

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