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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® - 2008 Academy Awards®

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® (AMPAS)
Academy Awards® (81st)
Nominations: January 22, 2009
Awards: February 22, 2009

Below are the nominations & winners for the 81st Annual Academy Awards®.

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Best Picture
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Cean Chaffin
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner
"Milk" (Focus Features) A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) A Celador Films, Film 4, Production, Christian Colson

Best Animated Feature
"Bolt" (Walt Disney) Chris Williams and Byron Howard
"Kung Fu Panda" (DreamWorks Animation) DreamWorks Animation, John Stevenson and Mark Osbourne
WINNER "WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios, Andrew Stanton

Best Actor
Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor" (Overture Films)
Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
WINNER Sean Penn in "Milk" (Focus Features)
Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)

Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin in "Milk" (Focus Features)
Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder" (DreamWorks/Paramount)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt" (Miramax)
WINNER Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)
Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road" (Paramount Vantage)

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Angelina Jolie in "Changeling" (Universal)
Melissa Leo in "Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Meryl Streep in "Doubt" (Miramax)
WINNER Kate Winslet in "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams in "Doubt" (Miramax)
WINNER Penelope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company, MGM)
Viola Davis in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)

Best Director
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Fincher
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Ron Howard
"Milk" (Focus Features) Gus Van Sant
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Stephen Daldry
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Danny Boyle

Best Art Direction
"Changeling" (Universal) Art Direction: James J. Murakami; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
WINNER "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Victor J Zolfo
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Peter Lando
"The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage) Art Direction: Michael Carlin; Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
"Revolutionary Road" (Paramount Vantage) Art Direction: Kristi Zea; Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

Best Cinematography
"Changeling" (Universal) Tom Stern
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Claudio Miranda
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Costume Design
"Australia" (20th Century Fox) Catherine Martin
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Jacqueline West
WINNER "The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage) Michael O'Connor
"Milk" (Focus Features) Danny Glicker
"Revolutionary Road" (Paramount Vantage) Albert Wolsky

Best Documentary
"The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" (Cinema Guild) A Pandinlao Films and Image Entertainment Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
"Encounters at the End of the World" (ThinkFilm/Image Entertainment/Discovery Films) Creative Differences Productions, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
"The Garden" (Oscilloscope Pictures) A Black Valley Films Production, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
WINNER "Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures) A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
"Trouble the Water" (Zeitgeist Films) An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best Documentary Short
"The Conscience of Nhem En" A Farallon Films Production, Steven Okazaki
"The Final Inch" Vermilion Films in association with Google.org, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
WINNER "Smile Pinki" A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
"The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306" A Rock Paper Scissors Production, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Best Film Editing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Lee Smith
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Mike HIll and Dan Hanley
"Milk" (Focus Features) Elliot Graham
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Chris Dickens

Best Foreign Film
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" (Summit Entertainment) A Constantin Film Production, Germany
"The Class" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haut et Court Production, France
WINNER "Departures" (Regent Releasing) A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
"Revanche" (Janus Films) A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
"Waltz With Bashir" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films D'Ici, Razor Films, Arte France, ITVS International Production, Israel/Germany/France/USA/Finland/Switzerland/Belgium/Australia

Best Makeup
WINNER "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Greg Cannom
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (Universal) Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Best Original Score
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Alexandre Desplat
"Defiance" (Paramount Vantage) James Newton Howard
"Milk" (Focus Features) Danny Elfman
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) A.R. Rahman
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Thomas Newman

Best Original Song
"Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; Lyric by Peter Gabriel
"O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
WINNER "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by Gulzar

Best Animated Short
WINNER "La Maison en Petits Cubes" A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato
"Lavatory - Lovestory" A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production, Konstantin Bronzit
"Oktapodi" (Magnolia Pictures) A Gobelins, L'ecole de L'image Production, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
"Presto" (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Doug Sweetland
"This Way Up" A Nexus Production, Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best Live-Action Short
"Auf der Strecke (On the Line)" (Hamburg Shortfilmagency) An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
"Manon on the Asphalt" (La Luna Productions) A La Luna Production, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
"New Boy" (Network Ireland Television) A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
"The Pig" An M & M Production, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Hogh
WINNER "Spielzeugland (Toyland)" A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank

Best Sound Editing
WINNER "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Richard King
"Iron Man" (Paramount) Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
"Wanted" (Universal) Wylie Stateman

Best Sound Mixing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
"Wanted" (Universal) Chris Jenkins, Frank A Montano and Petr Forejt

Best Visual Effects
WINNER "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
"Iron Man" (Paramount) John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Best Adapted Screenplay
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
"Doubt" (Miramax) Written by John Patrick Shanley
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Screenplay by Peter Morgan
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Screenplay by David Hare
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Best Original Screenplay
"Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Courtney Hunt
"Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax) Written by Mike Leigh
"In Bruges" (Focus Features) Written by Martin McDonagh
WINNER "Milk" (Focus Features) Written by Dustin Lance Black
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon; Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

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