Feb 22, 2009
The 81st Annual Academy Awards were held February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre.
"The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button" has the most nominations with thirteen. But it was "Slumdog Millionaire" which dominated the evening. "Slumdog" went in with ten nominations and won eight Oscars.
81st Academy Awards Winners
| Best Picture | |
| Slumdog Millionaire |    |
| Christian Colson | |
| Other Nominees: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader | |
| Best Actor | |
| Sean Penn (Milk) |  |
| Other Nominees: Richard Jenkins (The Visitor); Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon); Brad Pitt (Curious Case Of Benjamin Button); Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) | |
| Best Actress | |
| Kate Winslet (The Reader) |  |
| Other Nominees: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married); Angelina Jolie (Changeling); Melissa Leo (Frozen River); Meryl Streep (Doubt) | |
| Best Director | |
| Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) | |
| Other Nominees: Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader | |
| Best Supporting Actor | |
| Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) |  |
| Other Nominees: Josh Brolin (Milk); Robert Downey Jr (Tropic Thunder); Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt); Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) | |
| Best Supporting Actress | |
| Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) | |
| Other Nominees: Amy Adams (Doubt); Viola Davis (Doubt); Taraji P Henson (Curious Case Of Benjamin Button); Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler) | |
| Writing | |
| Slumdog Millionaire | |
| Simon Beaufoy | |
| Other Nominees: Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Doubt; Frost/Nixon; The Reader | |
| Writing | |
| Milk | |
| Dustin Lance Black | |
| Other Nominees: Frozen River; Happy-Go-Lucky; In Bruges; WALL-E | |
| Art Direction | |
| The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button |  |
| Donald Graham Burt; Victor J Zolfo | |
| Other Nominees: Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Duchess; Revolutionary Road | |
| Cinematography | |
| Slumdog Millionaire | |
| Anthony Dod Mantle | |
| Other Nominees: Changeling; Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; The Reader | |
| Film Editing | |
| Slumdog Millionaire | |
| Chris Dickens | |
| Other Nominees: Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Frost/Nixon; Milk | |
| Animated Feature Film | |
| WALL-E |  |
| Andrew Stanton | |
| Other Nominees: Bolt; Kung Fu Panda | |
| Documentary Feature | |
| Man On Wire | |
| James Marsh; Simon Chinn | |
| Other Nominees: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon); Encounters At The End Of The World; The Garden; Trouble The Water | |
| Documentary Short | |
| Smile Pinki | |
| Megan Mylan | |
| Other Nominees: The Conscience Of Nhem En; The Final Inch; The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306 | |
| Foreign Language Film | |
| Departures | |
| Other Nominees: The Baader Meinhof Complex; The Class; Revanche; Waltz With Bashir | |
| Short Subject Animated | |
| La Maison En Petits Cubes | |
| Kunio Kato | |
| Other Nominees: Lavatory - Lovestory; Oktapodi; Presto; This Way Up | |
| Short Subject Live Action | |
| Toyland | |
| Jochen Alexander Freydank | |
| Other Nominees: Auf Der Strecke (On The Line); Manon On The Asphalt; New Boy; The Pig | |
| Costume Design | |
| The Duchess | |
| Michael O'Connor | |
| Other Nominees: Australia; Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Milk; Revolutionary Road | |
| Makeup | |
| The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button | |
| Greg Cannom | |
| Other Nominees: The Dark Knight; Hellboy II: The Golden Army | |
| Sound Editing | |
| The Dark Knight | |
| Richard King | |
| Other Nominees: Iron Man; Slumdog Millionaire; WALL-E; Wanted | |
| Sound Mixing | |
| Slumdog Millionaire | |
| Ian Tapp; Richard Pryke; Resul Pookutty | |
| Other Nominees: Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; WALL-E; Wanted | |
| Visual Effects | |
| The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button | |
| Eric Barba; Steve Preeg; Burt Dalton; Craig Barron | |
| Other Nominees: The Dark Knight; Iron Man | |
| Original Score | |
| Slumdog Millionaire | |
| AR Rahman | |
| Other Nominees: Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Defiance; Milk; WALL-E | |
| Original Song | |
| Jai-Ho (Slumdog Millionaire) | |
| AR Rahman; Gulzar | |
| Other Nominees: Down To Earth (WALL-E); O Sava (Slumdog Millionaire) | |
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