They're finally here! After months of speculation, here are the nominees for the 81st annual Academy Awards:
Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
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
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
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
Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Best Original Screenplay
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Courtney Hunt - Frozen River
Mike Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh - In Bruges
Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon & Pete Docter - WALL-E
Best Adapted Screenplay
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare - The Reader
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth & Robin Swicord - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
Best Animated Feature Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E
Best Foreign Language Film
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
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 Costume Design
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road
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 Original Score
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Best Original Song
'Down to Earth' (Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman) - WALL-E
'Jai Ho' (A.R. Rahman) - Slumdog Millionaire
'O Saya' (A.R. Rahman) - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Sound Editing
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted
Best Sound Mixing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted
Best Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Best Documentary Feature Film
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 Eh
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
Best Live Action Short Film
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toy Land)
Best Animated Short Film
La Maison de Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up
Notes: Oscars always provide us with surprises for the nominations announcement, but this year a lot of cinephiles will be greatly upset. Not only did WALL-E fail to make the Best Picture list despite numerous precursor wins for Best of the year, but The Dark Knight did not make it either. A lot of people will argue the animated feature category hurt WALL-E's chances and The Dark Knight is still a superhero film, but it would've been nice of the Oscars to actually take a chance and nominate the films which were truly appreciated by not only the critics but by the fans as well. It is also a disappointment Christopher Nolan did NOT pick up a Best Director nom despite being present all throughout the Award Season, so I do not applaud the Academy this year for letting him out. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are both nominated this year so look for the gossip columns to be happy. Kate Winslet is nominated for The Reader in the Best Actress category so she is not a double nominee. Her chances are still good, but that leaves the Best Supporting Actress race wide open, so it'll be an interesting race. Bravo Michael Shannon for Revolutionary Road, a deserved nomination. How does The Wrestler not pick up a nomination for Best Original Song? That is truly a tragedy in itself. Here are the nominations tally:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button : 13 nominations
Slumdog Millionaire : 10 nominations
The Dark Knight : 8 nominations
Milk : 8 nominations
WALL-E : 6 nominations
The Reader : 5 nominations
Frost/Nixon : 5 nominations
Doubt : 5 nominations
What do you think?
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I have thought you guys were barking up the wrong tree for 'Dark Knight' and 'WALL-E' for some time now. The animators campaigned for their own category for years, so that's where 'WALL-E' belonged and will no doubt win. 'Dark Knight' really did not have the great script the other BP nominees have. I also have thought that 'Revolutionary Road' was too much of a downer for most Oscar voters, despite the good acting. But Kate Winslet in 'The Reader' is a leading role and the Academy recognized that, instead of the dumb Golden Globe voters. Very happy for Jenny Lumet being ignored for that awful script, 'In Bruges' being honored with a nomination, and Sally Hawkins not being nominated for a so-so movie. Let the Brits give her one of their awards. When I saw it half the audience walked out.
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