Here are the winners of the 2009 Academy Awards. There was lots of celebration at Fox Searchlight as Slumdog Millionaire cleans up for most of the night. The biggest surprise was perhaps the foreign language Oscar going to Japan for Okuribito. And Kudos to the Man on Wire team for taking home the feature documentary award.
– - BEST PICTURE
*Slumdog Millionaire
*Milk
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*Frost/Nixon
*The Reader
– - BEST DIRECTOR
*Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
*David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*Gus Van Sant – Milk
*Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
*Stephen Daldry – The Reader
– - BEST ACTOR
*Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
*Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
*Sean Penn – Milk
*Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
*Brad Pitt- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– - BEST ACTRESS
*Meryl Streep – Doubt
*Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
*Kate Winslet – The Reader
*Melissa Leo – Frozen River
*Angelina Jolie – The Changeling
– - BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
*Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
*Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
*Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
*Josh Brolin – Milk
*Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
– - BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
*Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
*Viola Davis – Doubt
*Amy Adams – Doubt
*Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
*Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– - BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
*The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
*Encounters at the End of the World
*The Garden
*Man on Wire
*Trouble the Water
– - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE
*Waltz with Bashir
*Revanche
*The Class
*The Baadar Meinhof Complex
*Okuribito
The rest of the Oscar winners are tucked under the seat.
– - BEST SCREENPLAY (adapted)
*Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
*Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
*Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
*The Reader – David Hare
– - BEST SCREENPLAY (original)
*Frozen River – Courtney Hunt
*Happy-Go-Lucky – Mike Leigh
*In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
*Milk – Dustin Lance Black
*Wall-e – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter
– - BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
*Bolt
*Kung-Fu Panda
*Wall-e
– - BEST ART DIRECTION
*Changeling – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Burt, Victor 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 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 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 MAKE-UP
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Greg Cannom
The Dark Knight – John Caglione, Jr., Conor O’Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army – Mike Elizalde, 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” – WALL-E (Peter Gabriel)
“Jaiho” – Slumdog Millionaire (Gulzar and A.R. Rahman)
“O Saya” – Slumdog Millionaire (Gulzar and A.R. Rahman)
– - BEST SOUND MIXING
Wall-e
The Dark Knight
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wanted
Slumdog Millionaire
– - BEST SOUND EDITING
Wall-e
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Wanted
Slumdog Millionaire
– - BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
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2) Heath Ledger’s family was touching.
3) Cruz over Tomei? REALLY?!?
4) Penn over Rourke? REALLY?!?
5) why did Jennifer Aniston present I was left wondering?
6) where was Jack Nicholson? George Clooney? Harrison Ford? lame turnout.
7) probably would have given best pic to Benjamin Button but i am not too disappointed about Slumdog.
Comment by ralph — February 23, 2009
Comment by Mercurie — February 23, 2009
Comment by Andrew James — February 23, 2009
That’s right. The Reader.
The (60% Fresh) Reader was robbed of Best Picture.
Comment by Domenic — February 26, 2009
Comment by kurt — February 26, 2009
To me, The Reader was a significant step above Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Frost/Nixon. To put it numerically:
The Reader – 9.5
The CC of BB – 8
Milk – 8
Frost/Nixon – 7.5
Slumdog Millionaire – 7.25
Comment by Domenic — February 26, 2009
As it has been documented many times before, Id have loved to see some more love for Synecdoche, NY, Rachel Getting Married, White Night Wedding and Let The Right One In. And what the hell is up with no nods for CHE? Note even Best Actor? WTF*.
Blindness was too Extreme for Oscar, even by Braveheart level violence standards.
*I guess the real mystery here is why I’m still talking about this. Aren’t we supposed to forget all this stuff as soon as the show is over?
Comment by kurt — February 26, 2009
Comment by Domenic — February 26, 2009
and speaking of missed best actors, although W was shit, Josh Brolin was very good as Bush, suprised by its absence.
Next year, I am calling it, the actor who plays Orson Welles in Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles will be nominated, if not winning. I’m not big on impersonations, but jesus, this is more of a seance possession.
Comment by rot — February 26, 2009
The quality of W. was fairly subpar, and the whole satire angle doesn’t really strike an Oscar-chord.
Comment by Domenic — February 26, 2009