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 Film 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 |
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
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Best Documentary – Short Subject
The Conscience of Nhem En– Steven Okazaki
The Final Inch– Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
Smile Pinki– Megan Mylan
The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306– Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde
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Best Actress
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie –  Changeling
Melissa Leo – Frozen River
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kate Winslet – The Reader
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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
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Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin – Milk
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
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Best 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
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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
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Best Sound Mixing
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick – The Dark Knight
Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty – Slumdog Millionaire
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt – WALL-E
Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt – Wanted
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Best Animated Feature Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E
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Best Sound Editing
Richard King – The Dark Knight
Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes – Iron Man
Tom Sayers – Slumdog Millionaire
Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood – WALL-E
Wylie Stateman – Wanted
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Best Foreign Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
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Best Live Action Short Film
Auf der Strecke (On the Line) – Reto Caffi
Manon on the Asphalt – Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
New Boy – Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
The Pig – Tivi Magnusson, Dorte Høgh
Spielzeugland (Toyland) – Jochen Alexander Freydank
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Best Original Screenplay
Dustin Lance Black – Milk
Courtney Hunt – Frozen River
Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter – WALL-E
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Best Animated Short Film
La Maison de Petits Cubes – Kunio Kato
Lavatory – Lovestory – Konstantin Bronzit
Oktapodi – Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
Presto – Doug Sweetland
This Way Up – Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes
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Best Adapted Screenplay
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon
David Hare – The Reader
Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
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Best Makeup
Greg Cannom – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Caglione, Jr., Conor O’Sullivan – The Dark Knight
Mike Elizalde, Thom Flout – Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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Best Documentary Feature
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
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Best Art Direction
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
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Best Original Score
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
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Best 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
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Best Original Song
Down to Earth – WALL-E
Jai Ho – Slumdog Millionaire
O Saya – Slumdog Millionaire
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The Oscars will air February 22, 2009 live at 17:00 PST/20:00 EST on the 
ABC, hosted by Hugh Jackman.
