Best Picture The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire 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 for 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 Directing Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire Stephen Daldry - The Reader David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon Gus Van Sant - Milk Foreign Language Film Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Germany) Entre les murs (The Class - France) Revanche (Austria) Okuribito (Departures - Japan) Vals Im Bashir (Waltz With Bashir Israel) Best Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button : Eric Roth, Robin Swicord Doubt : John Patrick Shanley Frost/Nixon : Peter Morgan The Reader : David Hare Slumdog Millionaire : Simon Beaufoy Best Original Screenplay Frozen River : Courtney Hunt Happy-Go-Lucky : Mike Leigh In Bruges : Martin McDonagh Milk : Dustin Lance Black WALL·E : Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter Best Animated Feature Film Bolt Kung Fu Panda WALL·E Best Art Direction Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight The Duchess Revolutionary Road Best Cinematography Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Best Sound The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Slumdog Millionaire WALL·E Wanted Best Sound Editing The Dark Knight Iron Man Slumdog Millionaire WALL·E Wanted Best Original Score The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Defiance Milk Slumdog Millionaire WALL·E Best Original Song Slumdog Millionaire : A.R. Rahman, Gulzar("Jai Ho") Slumdog Millionaire : A.R. Rahman, M.I.A("O Saya") WALL·E : Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman("Down to Earth") Best Costume Design Australia The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Duchess Milk Revolutionary Road Best Documentary Feature The Betrayal - Nerakhoon Encounters at the End of the World The Garden Man on Wire Trouble the Water Best Documentary (short subject) 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 The Dark Knight Frost/Nixon Milk Slumdog Millionaire Achievement in Makeup The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Hellboy II: The Golden Army Best Animated Short Film Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya : Konstantin Bronzit La Maison en Petits Cubes: Kunio Kato Oktapodi : Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi Presto : Doug Sweetland This Way Up : Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes Best Live Action Short Film Auf der Strecke Manon on the Asphalt New Boy The Pig Spielzeugland Best Visual Effects The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Iron Man
Facts: Winners Announced: February 22, 2009 Held at: Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California Host: Hugh Jackman Eligibility Year: 2008