81st Oscar Awards - List of Winners

Here is the complete list of nominees and winners (in bold slant font) as they are announced at the 81st Academy Awards on February 23, 2009.

Best Picture
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
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 Actor
Sean Penn - Milk
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best Actress
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Amy Adams - Doubt
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best Foreign Language Film
Departures - Japan
Revanche - Austria
The Class - France
The Baader Meinhof Complex - Germany
Waltz With Bashir - Israel

Best animated feature film
Wall-E
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda

Best Adapted Screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader

Best Original Screenplay
Milk, Dustin Lance Black
Happy-Go-Lucky
Wall-E
In Bruges
Frozen River

Best Original Score
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Wall-E

Best Original Song
Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire
Down To Earth - Wall-E
O Saya - Slumdog Millionaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best Live Action Short Film
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Auf der Strecke (On The Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig

Best Animated Short Film
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

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

Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man