India Broadband Forum

Rameshjeee

Complete list of 81st annual Academy Award nominations

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

Best Actor

• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
• Sean Penn – Milk
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

• Josh Brolin – Milk
• Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)

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 Original Screenplay

• WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter
• Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
• Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
• In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
• Milk - Dustin Lance Black

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
• The Reader - David Hare
• Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
• Doubt - John Patrick Shanley

Best Animated Feature

• Bolt – Chris Williams and Byron Howard
• Kung Fu Panda – Mark Osborne and John Stevenson
• Wall-E – Andrew Stanton

Best Foreign Language Film

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

Best Animated Short

• La Maison En Petits Cubes
• Lavatory - Lovestory
• Oktapodi
• Presto
• This Way Up

Best Art Direction

• Changeling – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. 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 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 Documentary Feature

• The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
• Encounters at the End of the World
• The Garden
• Man on Wire
• Trouble the Water

Best Documentary Short

• The Conscience of Nhem En
• The Final Inch
• Smile Pinki
• The Witness

Best Film Editing

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

Best Live Action Short

• On the Line (Auf der Strecke)
• Manon On the Asphalt
• New Boy
• The Pig
• Toyland (Spielzeugland)

Best Makeup

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Greg Cannom
• The Dark Knight – John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army – Mike Elizalde and 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" from WALL-E – Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman (music), Peter Gabriel (lyrics)
• "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (music), Gulzar (lyrics)
• "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best Sound Editing

• The Dark Knight – Richard King
• Iron Man – Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
• Slumdog Millionaire – Tom Sayers
• WALL-E – Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
• Wanted – Wylie Stateman

Best Sound Mixing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
• The Dark Knight – Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
• Slumdog Millionaire – Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
• WALL-E – Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
• Wanted – Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Best Visual Effects

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

Films with multiple nominations

• 13 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• 10 Slumdog Millionaire
• 8 The Dark Knight, Milk
• 6 WALL-E
• 5 Frost/Nixon, The Reader
• 3 Changeling, Revolutionary Road

powerdoc

No stopping Slumdog from Winning The Best Movie Oscar.
And One or even Two Oscars for Rahman
Not too many nominations for The Dark Knight

Rameshjeee

Besides 'Slumdog Millionaire', two other films set in India are also vying for the awards, both in the short documentary film category.

One of the documentaries, is 'Smile Pinki', a 39-minute film by Megan Mylan about a little girl born with a lip deformity.

The other, 'The Final Inch' by Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant, deals with the battle against polio.