2009 Oscars™ Nominees

Best Picture

Slumdog Millionaire

Milk

Frost/Nixon

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

The Reader

Best Director

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

David Fincher - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon

Stephen Daldry - The Reader

Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best Original Screenplay

Dustin Lance Black - Milk

Martin McDonagh - In Bruges

Courtney Hunt -Frozen River

Mike Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky

Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter - Wall-E

Best Adapted Screenplay

Eric Roth, Robin Swicord - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon

John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

David Hare - The Reader

Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor In A Leading Role

Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon

Sean Penn - Milk

Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Richard Jenkins - The Visitor

Best Actress In A Leading Role

Anne Hathaway - Rachel’s Getting Married

Meryl Streep - Doubt

Angelina Jolie - Changeling

Kate Winslet - The Reader

Melissa Leo - Frozen River

Best Actor In A Supporting Role

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Josh Brolin - Milk

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt

Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder

Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best Actress In A Supporting Role

Amy Adams - Doubt

Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Viola Davis - Doubt

Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Best Animated Film

Bolt

Kung Fu Panda

Wall-E

Best Foreign Language Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)

Revanche (Austria)

The Class (France)

Departures (Japan)

Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Best Documentary Feature

Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath - The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) 

Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser - Encounters At The End Of The World 

Scott Hamilton Kennedy - The Garden

James Marsh and Simon Chinn - Man On Wire 

Tia Lessin and Carl Deal - Trouble The Water 

Best Documentary Short Subject

Steven Okazaki - The Conscience Of Nhem En

Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant Smile Pink iMegan Mylan - The Final Inch

Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde - The Witness From The Balcony Of Room 306

Best Art Direction 

James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis - Changeling

Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando - The Dark Knight 

Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway - The Duchess

Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt - Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography

Tom Stern - Changeling

Claudio Miranda - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 

Wally Pfister - The Dark Knight 

Chris Menges, Roger Deakins - The Reader

Anthony Dod Mantle - Slumdog Millionaire 

Costume Design

Catherine Martin - Australia

Jacqueline West - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button 

Michael O’Connor - The Duchess

Danny Glicker - Milk

Albert Wolsky - Revolutionary Road 

Film Editing

Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button   

Lee Smith - The Dark Knight 

Mike Hill, Dan Hanley - Frost/Nixon 

Elliot Graham - Milk

Chris Dickens - Slumdog Millionaire

Makeup

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight 

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Music (Score)

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Defiance

Milk

Slumdog Millionaire

Wall-E

Music (Song)

Down To Earth - Wall-E

Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire

O Saya - Slumdog Millionaire

Short Film (Animated)

La Maison En Petits Cubes

Lavatory - Lovestory

Oktapodi

Presto

This Way Up

Short Film (Live Action)

On The Line (Auf Der Strecke)

Manon On The Asphalt

New Boy

The Pig

Toyland (Spielzeugland)

Sound Editing

The Dark Knight 

Iron Man

Slumdog Millionaire

Wall-E

Wanted

Sound Mixing

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight 

Slumdog Millionaire

Wall-E

Wanted

Visual Effects

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight 

Iron Man