MOVIE NEWS
Nominations for the 81st Annual
Oscar Awards
By The Associated
Press
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The romantic fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button led Academy Awards contenders with 13 nominations, including best picture. The nominees for 2009 were announced Thursday, January 22. The winners will be announced on Sunday, February 22.
Below is a complete list of nominations.
Best Picture:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Actor:
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Actress:
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Winslet, The Reader
Supporting Actor:
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Director:
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Foreign Film:
The Baader Meinhof Complex, Germany
The Class, France
Departures, Japan
Revanche, Austria
Waltz With Bashir, Israel
Adapted Screenplay:
Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
David Hare, The Reader
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Original Screenplay:
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter, WALL-E
Animated Feature Film:
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E
Art Direction:
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road
Cinematography:
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Sound Mixing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted
Sound Editing:
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted
Original Score:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
Defiance, James Newton Howard
Milk, Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire, AR Rahman
WALL-E, Thomas Newman
Original Song:
“ Down to Earth” from WALL-E, Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
“Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire, AR Rahman and
Gulzar
“O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire, AR Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
Costume:
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road
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
Film Editing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Makeup:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Animated Short Film:
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up
Live Action Short Film:
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Visual Effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Academy Award winners previously announced this year:
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar statuette): Jerry Lewis
Gordon E Sawyer Award (Oscar statuette): Pixar Animation co-founder Ed Catmull
© 2009 The Associated Press All rights reserved
To learn more about the Acadmy Awards, and read about your favorite films, visit www.oscars.com.
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