| The 81st Academy Awards | 2009 |
| Best Picture |
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Slumdog Millionaire
Christian Colson, Producer |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Frost/Nixon
Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers |
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Milk
Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers |
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The Reader
Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, Producers |
| Directing |
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Slumdog Millionaire
Danny Boyle |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Fincher |
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Frost/Nixon
Ron Howard |
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Milk
Gus Van Sant |
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The Reader
Stephen Daldry |
| Actor in a Leading Role |
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Sean Penn
Milk |
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Richard Jenkins
The Visitor |
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Frank Langella
Frost/Nixon |
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Brad Pitt
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Mickey Rourke
The Wrestler |
| Actress in a Leading Role |
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Kate Winslet
The Reader |
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Anne Hathaway
Rachel Getting Married |
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Angelina Jolie
Changeling |
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Melissa Leo
Frozen River |
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Meryl Streep
Doubt |
| Actor in a Supporting Role |
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Heath Ledger
The Dark Knight |
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Josh Brolin
Milk |
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Robert Downey Jr.
Tropic Thunder |
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
Doubt |
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Michael Shannon
Revolutionary Road |
| Actress in a Supporting Role |
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Penélope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
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Amy Adams
Doubt |
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Viola Davis
Doubt |
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Taraji P. Henson
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
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Marisa Tomei
The Wrestler |
| Writing (Adapted Screenplay) |
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Slumdog Millionaire
Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord |
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Doubt
Written by John Patrick Shanley |
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Frost/Nixon
Screenplay by Peter Morgan |
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The Reader
Screenplay by David Hare |
| Writing (Original Screenplay) |
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Milk
Written by Dustin Lance Black |
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Frozen River
Written by Courtney Hunt |
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Happy-Go-Lucky
Written by Mike Leigh |
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In Bruges
Written by Martin McDonagh |
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WALL-E
Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon; Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter |
| Film Editing |
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Slumdog Millionaire
Chris Dickens |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall |
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The Dark Knight
Lee Smith |
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Frost/Nixon
Mike Hill and Dan Hanley |
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Milk
Elliot Graham |
| Cinematography |
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Slumdog Millionaire
Anthony Dod Mantle |
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Changeling
Tom Stern |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Claudio Miranda |
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The Dark Knight
Wally Pfister |
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The Reader
Chris Menges and Roger Deakins |
| Art Direction |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt; Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo |
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Changeling
Art Direction: James J. Murakami; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis |
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The Dark Knight
Art Direction: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Peter Lando |
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The Duchess
Art Direction: Michael Carlin; Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway |
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Revolutionary Road
Art Direction: Kristi Zea; Set Decoration: Debra Schutt |
| Costume Design |
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The Duchess
Michael O'Connor |
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Australia
Catherine Martin |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Jacqueline West |
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Milk
Danny Glicker |
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Revolutionary Road
Albert Wolsky |
| Makeup |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Greg Cannom |
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The Dark Knight
John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan |
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz |
| Visual Effects |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron |
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The Dark Knight
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin |
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Iron Man
John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan |
| Music (Original Score) |
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Slumdog Millionaire
A.R. Rahman |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Alexandre Desplat |
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Defiance
James Newton Howard |
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Milk
Danny Elfman |
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WALL-E
Thomas Newman |
| Music (Original Song) |
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Slumdog Millionaire
Jai Ho in "Slumdog Millionaire" Music by A.R. Rahman; Lyric by Gulzar |
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WALL-E
Down To Earth in "WALL-E" Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; Lyric by Peter Gabriel |
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Slumdog Millionaire
O Saya in "Slumdog Millionaire" Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam |
| Sound Editing |
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The Dark Knight
Richard King |
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Iron Man
Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes |
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Slumdog Millionaire
Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers |
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WALL-E
Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood |
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Wanted
Wylie Stateman |
| Sound Mixing |
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Slumdog Millionaire
Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty |
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten |
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The Dark Knight
Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick |
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WALL-E
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt |
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Wanted
Wanted |
| Foreign Language Film |
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Departures
Japan |
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
Germany |
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The Class
France |
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Revanche
Austria |
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Waltz with Bashir
Israel |
| Documentary (Feature) |
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Man on Wire
James Marsh and Simon Chinn |
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The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath |
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Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser |
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The Garden
Scott Hamilton Kennedy |
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Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal |
| Animated Feature Film |
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WALL-E
Andrew Stanton |
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Bolt
Chris Williams and Byron Howard |
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Kung Fu Panda
John Stevenson and Mark Osborne |
| Short Film (Live Action) |
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Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Jochen Alexander Freydank |
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Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Reto Caffi |
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Manon on the Asphalt
Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont |
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New Boy
Steph Green and Tamara Anghie |
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The Pig
The Pig |
| Short Film (Animated) |
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La Maison en Petits Cubes
Kunio Kato |
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Lavatory - Lovestory
Konstantin Bronzit |
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Oktapodi
Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand |
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Presto
Doug Sweetland |
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This Way Up
Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes |
| Documentary (Short Subject) |
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Smile Pinki
Megan Mylan |
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The Conscience of Nhem En
Steven Okazaki |
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The Final Inch
Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant |
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The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde |