❤ loved ; ♕ should win ; ♛ won

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
• Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
• Gus van Sant, Milk
• Stephen Daldry, The Reader
• Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

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 actress

• Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
• Melissa Leo, Frozen River
• Kate Winslet, The Reader
• Angelina Jolie, Changeling
• Meryl Streep, Doubt

Best supporting actor

• Josh Brolin, Milk
• Robert Downey Jr, Tropic Thunder
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
• Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt

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 original screenplay

• Frozen River
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• In Bruges
• Milk
• WALL-E

Best adapted screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best cinematography

• Tom Stern, Changeling
• Claudio Miranda, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
• Chris Menges, Roger Deakins, The Reader
• Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in art design

• James J Murakami, Gary Fettis, Changeling
• Donald Graham Burt, Victor J Zolfo, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando, The Dark Knight
• Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway, The Duchess
• Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt, Revolutionary Road

Achievement in visual effects

• Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin, The Dark Knight
• John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan, Iron Man

Achievement in editing

• Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Lee Smith, The Dark Knight
• Mike Hill, Dan Hanley, Frost/Nixon
• Elliot Graham, Milk
• Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in costume design

• Catherine Martin, Australia
• Jacqueline West, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Michael O'Connor, The Duchess
• Danny Glicker, Milk
• Albert Wolsky, Revolutionary Road

Achievement in makeup

• Greg Cannom, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• John Caglione, Jr, Conor O'Sullivan, The Dark Knight
• Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz, Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best foreign-language film

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
• The Class (France)
• Departures (Japan)
• Revanche (Austria)
• Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Best documentary feature

• Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
• Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser, Encounters at the End of the World
• Scott Hamilton Kennedy, The Garden
• James Marsh, Simon Chinn, Man On Wire
• Tia Lessin, Carl Deal, Trouble the Water

Best animation

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• WALL-E

Best original song

• Down to Earth, WALL-E
• Jai Ho, Slumdog Millionaire
• O Saya, Slumdog Millionaire