THE winners (and main nominees) for the 81st Academy Awards, which were held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on February 22, 2009, were as follows…

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 – The Reader

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

Best foreign language film
Revanche – Austria
The Class – France
The Baader Meinhof Complex – Germany
Departures – Japan
Waltz With Bashir – Israel

Best animated feature film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best adapted screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best original screenplay
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Wall-E
In Bruges
Frozen River

Best animated short film
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory – Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Best documentary feature
Man on Wire
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Trouble The Water

Best documentary short subject:
Smile Pinki
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306

Art direction:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Changeling
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Costume design:
The Duchess
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Australia
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Make-up:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Cinematography:
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Changeling
The Dark Knight
The Reader

Best live action short film:
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Auf der Strecke (On The Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig

Visual effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Sound editing:
The Dark Knight
Iron Man; Wanted
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E

Sound mixing:
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Wanted
Wall-E

Film editing:
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk

Best original score:
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E

Best original song:
Jai Ho – Slumdog Millionaire
Down To Earth – Wall-E
O Saya – Slumdog Millionaire

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