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[Lucky Rathen]

I've only seen one of the movies up for Best Picture so I best get my finger out and see the other 4. Heath Ledger has got a Best Supporting Actor nod, which will please a lot of people, and Mickey Rourke for the Wrestler is up for Best Actor, which will also please a lot of people. "Doubt" seems to have a lot of nominations, I've never heard of it, but Philip Seymour Hoffman makes any film watchable, so I'll probably try to see that. Robert Downey Jr for Tropic Thunder is an odd one, as the Academy tends to ignore comedy films. And horror for that matter. Bastards. Where's Johnny Depp's Oscar eh?!?!?!?

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon

Best Actor
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Sean Penn – Milk
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)

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
The Class – France
The Baader Meinhof Complex – Germany
Departures – Japan
Waltz With Bashir – Israel

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 FeatureNerakhoon (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

[edit] 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

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, Wanted, The Wrestler, Iron Man

81st Academy Awards nominees and winners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Captain America]

Ugh, wonder what the odds are on Ledger winning the posthumous best supporting actor are...

[Bigsby]

I'm gutted at the lack of Best Actor nomination for Clint Eastwood.

I changed my avatar for nothing.

[DJ Jo-D]

robert downing junior?? is that cause no one could believe it was him cause he was black?


Never really paid much attention to the oscars

who normally decides on what should be nominated?

[Afro Droid]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

Where's Johnny Depp's Oscar eh?!?!?!?

For what?! Playing the same cookey-goth character in Tim Burton's "films"?

Burton used to be great ('Edward Scissorhands', 'Mars Attacks' etc), but is a shitey parody of himself now, same for Depp.

[ca_gere]

Originally Posted by Afro Droid

For what?! Playing the same cookey-goth character in Tim Burton's "films"?

Burton used to be great ('Edward Scissorhands', 'Mars Attacks' etc), but is a shitey parody of himself now, same for Depp.

I agree with you on Burton. He hasn't made a decent film since Ed wood and yet is still every goth's hero. (Might have to rewatch Mars Attacks, remeber it being pish apart from Jack Nicholson)

Depp is still a legend in my eyes though. Can't stand pirates of the caribean but he was great in the first one. He was good in that peter pan one too.

As for the Oscars... Can't believe Gomorrah didn't get nominated. It is excellent. Saying that, I haven't seen the other films in the foreign language category.

Whilst we're on the topic... Does anyone remember the Oscars show a few years back presented by Jonathan Ross with guests Ronni Ancona and Rob Brydon? I remember it being one of the most cringeworthy television shows ever. Ancona was acting all pissed up and Brydon was ripping into her at every opportunity while Ross was taking the piss out of Brydon. It totally messed with my head because I couldn't figure out whether it was all just a bit of 'schtick' or whether they all genuinely fell out.