The 81st Academy Awards Nominations

Nominations


Best Picture

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Frost/Nixon

• Milk

• The Reader

• Slumdog Millionaire


Best Director

• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

• Stephen Daldry – The Reader

• David Fincher – The Curious Case of 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 – The Curious Case of 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 – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Best Original Screenplay

• WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter

• Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh

• Frozen River - Courtney Hunt

• In Bruges - Martin McDonagh

• Milk - Dustin Lance Black

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord

• Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan

• The Reader - David Hare

• Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy

• Doubt - John Patrick Shanley

Best Animated Feature

• Bolt – Chris Williams and Byron Howard

• Kung Fu Panda – Mark Osborne and John Stevenson

• WALL-E – Andrew Stanton

Best Foreign Language Film

• Revanche (Austria) in German - Götz Spielmann

• The Class (France) in French - Laurent Cantet

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany) in German

• Departures (Japan) in Japanese

• Waltz with Bashir (Israel) in Hebrew - Ari Folman

Best Animated Short

• La Maison En Petits Cubes - Kunio Kato

• Lavatory - Lovestory - Konstantin Bronzit

• Oktapodi - Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand

• Presto - Doug Sweetland

• This Way Up - Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best Art Direction

• Changeling – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo

• The Dark Knight – Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando

• The Duchess – Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway

• Revolutionary Road – Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt

Best Cinematography

• Changeling – Tom Stern

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda

• The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister

• The Reader – Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

• Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Costume Design

• Australia – Catherine Martin

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jacqueline West

• The Duchess – Michael O'Connor

• Milk – Danny Glicker

• Revolutionary Road – Albert Wolsky

Best Documentary Feature

• Nerakhoon (The Betrayal)

• Encounters at the End of the World

• The Garden

• Man on Wire

• Trouble the Water

Best Documentary Short

• The Conscience of Nhem En – Steven Okazaki

• The Final Inch

• Smile Pinki

• The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

Best Film Editing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall

• The Dark Knight – Lee Smith

• Frost/Nixon – Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley

• Milk – Elliot Graham

• Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens

Best Live Action Short

• On the Line (Auf der Strecke)

• Manon On the Asphalt

• New Boy

• The Pig (Grisen)

• Toyland (Spielzeugland)

Best Makeup

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Greg Cannom

• The Dark Knight – John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan

• Hellboy II: The Golden Army – Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Best Original Score

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat

• Defiance – James Newton Howard

• Milk – Danny Elfman

• Slumdog Millionaire – A.R. Rahman

• WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

• "Down to Earth" from WALL-E – Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman (music), Peter Gabriel (lyrics)

• "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (music), Gulzar (lyrics)

• "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman and M.I.A.

Best Sound Editing

• The Dark Knight – Richard King

• Iron Man – Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes

• Slumdog Millionaire – Tom Sayers

• WALL-E – Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood

• Wanted – Wylie Stateman

Best Sound Mixing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten

• The Dark Knight – Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick

• Slumdog Millionaire – Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty

• WALL-E – Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt

• Wanted – Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Best Visual Effects

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron

• The Dark Knight – Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin

• Iron Man – John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan

Academy Honorary Award

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Jerry Lewis


Films with multiple nominations

• 13 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

• 10 Slumdog Millionaire

• 8 The Dark Knight, Milk

• 6 WALL-E

• 5 Doubt, Frost/Nixon, The Reader

• 3 Changeling, Revolutionary Road

• 2 The Duchess, Frozen River, Iron Man, Wanted, The Wrestler