2009 Oscar Awards Nominees

Below are tare the complete list of 2009 Oscar Awards Nominees. This years Oscar Awards would be the 81st edition of the Annual Academy Awards and can be watch on ABC in the United States during the live coverage on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California.


Complete list of 2009 Oscar Awards - 81st Academy Awards Nominees:

Best Actress / Female Performance in a Leading Role
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor / Male Performance in a Leading Role
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Sean Penn - Milk

Best Supporting Actress / Female Performance in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Viola Davis - Doubt

Best Supporting Actor / Male Performance in a Supporting Role
Josh Brolin - Milk
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder


Best Picture
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reader

Best Director / Achievement in Directing
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Gus Van Sant - Milk

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

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

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

Best Cinematography
Changeling - Tom Stern
Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight - Wally Pfister
The Reader - Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

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

Best Original Score
Defiance - James Newton Howard
Milk - Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
WALL-E - Thomas Newman

Best Art Direction / Achievement in Art Direction
Changeling
Revolutionary Road
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess

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 Original Song
Down to Earth from WALL-E - Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman
Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Gulzar
O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam

Best Animated Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Documentary
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World

Best Makeup / Achievement in Make-Up
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Greg Cannom
The Dark Knight - John Caglione, Jr., Conor O’Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz

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

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

Best Sound Editing / Achievement in Sound
Slumdog Millionaire - Tom Sayers
Iron Man - Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
The Dark Knight - Richard King
WALL-E - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted - Wylie Stateman

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

source: OSCAR.com