81st Oscar Academy Award Winners 2009

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Best Picture

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire - Winner

Best Director

* Danny Boyle 'Slumdog Millionaire' - Winner
* Stephen Daldry 'The Reader'
* David Fincher 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
* Ron Howard 'Frost/Nixon'
* Gus Van Sant 'Milk'

Best Actor

* Richard Jenkins 'The Visitor'
* Frank Langella 'Frost/Nixon'
* Sean Penn 'Milk' - Winner
* 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' - Winner

Best Supporting Actor

* Josh Brolin 'Milk'
* Robert Downey Jr. 'Tropic Thunder'
* Philip Seymour Hoffman 'Doubt'
* Heath Ledger 'The Dark Knight' - Winner
* Michael Shannon 'Revolutionary Road'

Best Supporting Actress

* Amy Adams 'Doubt'
* Penelope Cruz 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' - Winner
* Viola Davis 'Doubt'
* Taraji P. Henson 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
* Marisa Tomei 'The Wrestler'

Best Animated Feature Film

* Bolt
* Kung Fu Panda
* Wall-E - Winner

Best Foreign Film

* 'The Baader Meinhof Complex'
Germany
* 'The Class'
France
* 'Departures'
Japan - Winner
* 'Revanche'
Austria
* 'Waltz With Bashir'
Israel

Best Original Screenplay

* 'Milk'
Dustin Lance Black - Winner
* 'Frozen River'
Courtney Hunt
* 'Happy Go Lucky'
Mike Leigh
* 'In Bruges'
Martin McDonagh
* 'Wall-E'
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

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 - Winner

Best Documentary Feature

* 'The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)'
* 'Encounters at the End of the World'
* 'The Garden'
* 'Man on Wire' - Winner
* 'Trouble the Water'

Best Original Score

* 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
* 'Defiance'
* 'Milk'
* 'Slumdog Millionaire' - Winner
* 'WALL-E'

Best Original Song

* 'Down to Earth'
'WALL-E'
* 'Jai Ho'
'Slumdog Millionaire' - Winner
* 'O Saya'
'Slumdog Millionaire'

Best Film Editing

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

Best Documentary - Short Subject

* 'The Conscience of Nhem En'
* 'The Final Inch'
* 'Smile Pinki' - Winner
* 'The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306'

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 - Winner

Best Costume Design

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

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 - Winner
* 'WALL-E'
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
* 'Wanted'
Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Best Sound Editing

* 'The Dark Knight'
Richard King - Winner
* 'Iron Man'
Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
* 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Tom Sayers
* 'WALL-E'
Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
* 'Wanted'
Wylie Stateman

Best Live Action Short Film

* 'Auf der Strecke (On the Line)'
* 'Manon on the Asphalt'
* 'New Boy'
* 'The Pig'
* 'Spielzeugland (Toyland)' - Winner

Best Animated Short Film

* 'La Maison de Petits Cubes' - Winner
* 'Lavatory - Lovestory'
* 'Oktapodi'
* 'Presto'
* 'This Way Up'

Best Makeup

* 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Greg Cannom - Winner
* 'The Dark Knight'
John Caglione, Jr., Conor O'Sullivan
* 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army'
Mike Elizalde, Thom Flout

Best Art Direction

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

Best Visual Effects

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