2008 Academy Award® Nominations: winners are underlined.

Best Picture: Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry, The Reader David Fincher, 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, 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, Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Original Screenplay:
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter, WALL·E

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare, The Reader
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt

Best Foreign Film: The Baader Meinhof Complex, Germany The Class, France Departures, Japan Revanche, Austria Waltz with Bashir, Israel

Best Animated Feature: Bolt Kung Fu Panda WALL·E

Best Costumes: Australia Benjamin Button The Duchess Milk Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography: Benjamin Button Changeling The Dark Knight The Reader Slumdog Millionaire

Best Art Direction: Benjamin Button Changeling The Dark Knight The Duchess Revolutionary Road

Film Editing: Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Frost/Nixon Milk Slumdog Millionaire

Sound Editing: The Dark Knight Iron Man Slumdog Millionaire WALL·E Wanted

Best Sound: Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Slumdog Millionaire WALL·E Wanted

Visual Effects: Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Iron Man

Best Original Score: Alexandre Desplat, Benjamin Button Danny Elfman, Milk James Newton Howard, Defiance Thomas Newman, WALL·E A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Makeup: Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Hellboy II

Best Original Song:
Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman, "Down to Earth" from WALL·E
A.R. Rahman, Gulzar, "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire
A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam, "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire

Best Documentary Feature: The Betrayal - Nerakhoon Encounters at the End of the World The Garden Man on Wire Trouble the Water

Documentary, Short Subject: The Conscience of Nhem En The Final Inch Smile Pinki The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

Live Action Short Film: Auf der Strecke Grisen Manon sur le bitume New Boy Spielzeugland

Animated Short Film: La Maison en petits cubes Oktapodi Presto This Way Up Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya

The Academy Award® ceremony were held on Sunday, February 22, 2009


Winners:
(13 movies)

Slumdog Millionaire (9) - Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound, Original Score, Original Song
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (3) - Art Direction, Visual Effects, Makeup
Milk (2) - Actor, Original Screenplay
The Dark Knight (1) - Supporting Actor
The Duchess (1) - Costumes
The Reader (1) - Actress
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (1) - Supporting Actress
Departures (1) - Foreign Film
WALL·E (1) - Animated Feature
Man on Wire (1) - Documentary Feature
Smile Pinki (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Spielzeugland (1) - Live Action Short Film
La Maison en petits cubes (1) - Animated Short Film

Nomination Totals:
(47 movies)
Commercial English language films:
Australia (1) - Costumes
Bolt (1) - Animated Feature
Changeling (3) - Actress, Cinematography, Art Direction
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (13) - Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Cinematography, Art Direction, Film Editing, Sound, Visual Effects, Makeup, Original Score
The Dark Knight (8) - Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Art Direction, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound, Visual Effects, Makeup
Defiance (1) - Original Score
Doubt (5) - Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay
The Duchess (2) - Costumes, Art Direction
Frost/Nixon (5) - Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing
Frozen River (2) - Actress, Original Screenplay
Happy-Go-Lucky (1) - Original Screenplay
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (1) - Makeup
In Bruges (1) - Original Screenplay
Iron Man (2) - Sound Editing, Visual Effects
Kung Fu Panda (1) - Animated Feature
Milk (8) - Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Costumes, Film Editing, Original Score
Rachel Getting Married (1) - Actress
The Reader (5) - Picture, Director, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography
Revolutionary Road (3) - Supporting Actor, Costumes, Art Direction
Slumdog Millionaire (10) - Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound, Original Score, Original Song, Original Song
Tropic Thunder (1) - Supporting Actor
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (1) - Supporting Actress
The Visitor (1) - Actor
WALL·E (6) - Original Screenplay, Animated Feature, Sound Editing, Sound, Original Score, Original Song
Wanted (2) - Sound Editing, Sound
The Wrestler (2) - Actor, Supporting Actress

Foreign language films:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (1) - Foreign Film
The Class (1) - Foreign Film
Departures (1) - Foreign Film
Revanche (1) - Foreign Film
Waltz with Bashir (1) - Foreign Film

Documentaries and short films:
Auf der Strecke (1) - Live Action Short Film
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (1) - Best Documentary Feature
The Conscience of Nhem En (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Encounters at the End of the World (1) - Best Documentary Feature
The Final Inch (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
The Garden (1) - Best Documentary Feature
Grisen (1) - Live Action Short Film
Man on Wire (1) - Best Documentary Feature
Manon sur le bitume (1) - Live Action Short Film
La Maison en petits cubes (1) - Animated Short Film
New Boy (1) - Live Action Short Film
Oktapodi (1) - Animated Short Film
Presto (1) - Animated Short Film
Smile Pinki (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Spielzeugland (1) - Live Action Short Film
This Way Up (1) - Animated Short Film
Trouble the Water (1) - Best Documentary Feature
Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya (1) - Animated Short Film
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306 (1) - Documentary, Short Subject

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