Recap / Eighty First Academy Awards

The 81st Academy Awards

Host': Hugh Jackman

Air Date: February 22, 2009

Best Picture

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

Best Actor (male)

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

Best Actor (female)

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

Best Supporting Actor (male)

• Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight (winner) ^note  posthumously
• Josh Brolin - Milk
• Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt''
• Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor (female)

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

Best Director

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

Best Original Screenplay

• Milk (winner)
• Frozen River
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• In Bruges
• WALLE

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Slumdog Millionaire (winner)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• The Reader

Best Animated Feature Film

• WALLE (winner)
• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda

Best Foreign Language Film

• Departures (winner)
• The Baader Meinhof Complex
• The Class
• Revanche
• Waltz With Bashir

Best Documentary (feature)

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

Best Documentary (short subject)

• Smile Pinki (winner)
• The Conscience Of Nhem En
• The Final Inch
• The Witness From The Balcony Of Room 306

Best Short Film (live action)

• Toyland (winner)
• Manon On The Asphalt
• New Boy
• On The Line
• The Pig

Best Short Film (animated)

• La Maison en Petits Cubes (winner)
• Lavatory - Lovestory
• Oktapodi
• Presto
• This Way Up

Best Original Score

• Slumdog Millionaire (winner)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Defiance
• Milk
• WALLE

Best Original Song

• "Jai Ho" - Slumdog Millionaire (winner)
• "Down to Earth" - WALLE
• "O Saya" - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Sound Editing

• The Dark Knight (winner)
• Iron Man
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALLE
• Wanted

Best Sound Mixing

• Slumdog Millionaire (winner)
• 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• WALLE
• Wanted

Best Production Design

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (winner)
• Changeling
• The Dark Knight
• The Duchess
• Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography

• Slumdog Millionaire (winner)
• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• The Reader

Best Makeup

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (winner)
• The Dark Knight
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best Costume Design

• The Duchess (winner)
• Australia
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Milk
• Revolutionary Road

Best Film Editing

• Slumdog Millionaire (winner)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk

Best Visual Effects

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (winner)
• The Dark Knight
• Iron Man

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