The Oscar nominations list

23 January,2009 08:59 AM IST |   |  Agencies

The Oscar nominations list in full is as follows:


The Oscar nominations list in full is as follows:

Best picture nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Frost/Nixon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Reader

Best actor nominees:
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 nominees:
Kate Winslet (The Reader), Meryl Streep (Doubt), Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married), Angelina Jolie (Changeling), Melissa Leo (Frozen River)

Best supporting actor nominees:
Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight), Josh Brolin (Milk), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt), Robert Downey Jr (Tropic Thunder), Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)

Best supporting actress nominees:
Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Viola Davis (Doubt), Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler), Taraji P Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Amy Adams (Doubt)

Best director nominees:
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Stephen Daldry (The Reader), Gus Van Sant (Milk), Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)

Best foreign language film of the year:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany), The Class( France), Departures (Japan), Revanche (Austria),
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

Best adapted screenplay:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, screenplay by Eric Roth, screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
Doubt, written by John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon, screenplay by Peter Morgan
The Reader, screenplay by David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire, screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay:
Frozen River, written by Courtney Hunt; Happy-Go-Lucky, written by Mike Leigh; In Bruges, written by Martin McDonagh; Milk, written by Dustin Lance Black; WALL-E, screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

Best animated feature film:
Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, WALL-E

Best art direction:
Changeling, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Duchess, Revolutionary Road

Best cinematography:
Changeling, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, Slumdog Millionaire

Best sound mixing:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Slumdog Millionaire, WALL-E, Wanted

Best sound editing:
The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Slumdog Millionaire, WALL-E, Wanted

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, music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, lyric by Peter Gabriel
Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire, music by A.R. Rahman, lyric by Gulzar
O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire, music and lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best costume:
Australia, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Duchess, Milk, Revolutionary Road

Best documentary feature:
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), Encounters at the End of the World, The Garden, Man on Wire, Trouble the Water

Best documentary (short subject):
The Conscience of Nhem En, The Final Inch, Smile Pinki, The Witness - From The Balcony Of Room 306.

Best film editing:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire

Best makeup:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight,Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

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

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

Best visual effects:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Iron Man

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