The 81st Academy Awards - Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009

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The nominess were announced this morning.

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
Penelope 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
The Class (France) in French
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany) in German
Departures (Japan) in Japanese
Waltz with Bashir (Israel) in Hebrew

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

Best Documentary Short
The Conscience of Nhem En
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, Dan 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
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 Maya Arulpragasam

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

Ben Button received the highest amount of nominations with 13. Slumdog came in second with 10. With 6 nominations, WALL-E ties with Beauty and the Beast as the animated feature to receive the most nominations ever.

Interesting tidbit: Meryl, Phillip, Amy, and Viola all managed to receive an acting nomination for their work in Doubt, but the movie itself failed to be nominated for Best Picture.

Anything or anyone you believed got snubbed? Who are your favorites to win? Discuss away!

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[Ionan]

I was surprised and disappointed that Wall-E got snubbed for Best Picture.

It's been winning many of the Best Picture and equivalent awards all around the place (like Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Online Film Critics Society), and was the true underdog for at least A BP nomination at the Academy Awards. I believe it is higher rated by critics than most, if not all, of the Best Picture nominations this year
But, with the history of the Oscars snubbing Animated, Science Fiction, and Future-oriented films, I guess I should have seen it coming. (I'm now hoping Wall-E can at least get the awards for Original Score and Screenplay, since both are excellent. At least Wall-E is a shoe-in for the Best Animated Feature)

Anyway, I'm 100% behind Slumdog Millionaire to win now.

[talldede]

I'm pleasantly surprised to find that the Best Pic and Best Director nominees match up. Usually, that is a big controversy with one getting a nod and the director snubbed or vice versa.

Oh and for the record, I've not seen one of the nominees for best picture. I'd like to see Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire before the Oscars though.

[fluff]

I'm very excited for the Oscars tomorrow.
Well, more for the fashions than the awards ceremony really.

I'll be keeping an eye out for Viola Davis because I thought she looked stunning at the SAG awards.

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The show's in a few hours! Anyone else as excited as I am?

[schmoo2]

Looking forward to seeing Hugh as host. Ymmers.

[sukee]

Okay...just a comment on watching E Live at the Red Carpet. I do not consider Nicole Ritchie to be a "big star"...

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Originally Posted by schmoo2

Looking forward to seeing Hugh as host. Ymmers.

He did so well on the Tony's a couple of years back, can't wait either.

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Originally Posted by sukee

Okay...just a comment on watching E Live at the Red Carpet. I do not consider Nicole Ritchie to be a "big star"...

I was just watching E!'s broadcast, but I decided to switch over to ABC. The cast of Slumdog is on the screen right now. I gotta say, Frieda is stunning.

ETA: Miley's dress just landed on the front page of Yahoo. Thoughts?

[sukee]

I was just watching E!'s broadcast, but I decided to switch over to ABC. The cast of Slumdog is on the screen right now. I gotta say, Frieda is stunning.

ETA: Miley's dress just landed on the front page of Yahoo. Thoughts?

http://i43.tinypic.com/1t1y7p.jpg

There is a telethon on the ABC I get

I liked Miley's dress, tasteful