OSCAR 2009 NOMINATIONS

AND THE OSCAR goes to...

Guys, yes, it's time to hear that announcement again, and the guy who will be saying it this year is Hugh Jackman, once voted as the SEXIEST MAN ALIVE on this planet by PEOPLE magazine..

The 81st Academy Awards ceremony will honor its selection of the best films of 2008 and is scheduled for Sunday, February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It will be aired in the United States on ABC. Australian performer Hugh Jackman is set to host the ceremony for the first time.^[2] Academy Award-nominated producer Laurence Mark has been tapped to produce and Academy Award-winning writer/director Bill Condon to executive-produce. ^[3] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads the nominations with a total of 13. Slumdog Millionaire received ten, The Dark Knight and Milk received eight, and Doubt, The Reader, and Frost/Nixon each received five. The animated film WALL·E received six, tying it with Beauty and The Beast for the most nominated animated film in Oscar history.

Of course you're so curious as to who the nominees are, so without further ado, here goes:

BEST PICTURE :

1. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
2. “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production,Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
3. “Milk” (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
4. “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Nominees to be determined
5. “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production,Christian Colson, Producer

BEST ACTOR :

1. Richard Jenkins : “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
2. Frank Langella : “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
3. Sean Penn : “Milk” (Focus Features)
4. Brad Pitt : “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
5. Mickey Rourke : “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

1. Josh Brolin : “Milk” (Focus Features)
2. Robert Downey Jr. : “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman : “Doubt” (Miramax)
4. Heath Ledger : “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
5. Michael Shannon : “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

BEST ACTRESS:

1. Anne Hathaway : “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
2. Angelina Jolie : “Changeling” (Universal)
3. Melissa Leo : “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
4. Meryl Streep : “Doubt” (Miramax)
5. Kate Winslet : “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

1. Amy Adams : “Doubt” (Miramax)
2. Penélope Cruz : “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
3. Viola Davis : “Doubt” (Miramax)
4. Taraji P. Henson : “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
5. Marisa Tomei :“The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

BEST ANIMATED MOVIE :

1. “Bolt” (Walt Disney), Chris Williams and Byron Howard
2. “Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount), John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
3. “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton

BEST ART DIRECTOR :

1. “Changeling” (Universal), Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
2. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
3. “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando
4. “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
5. “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

1. “Changeling” (Universal), Tom Stern
2. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Claudio Miranda
3. “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Wally Pfister
4. “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
5. “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle

BEST COSTUME:

1. “Australia” (20th Century Fox), Catherine Martin
2. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Jacqueline West
3. “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor
4. “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Glicker
5. “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage), Albert Wolsky

BEST DIRECTOR :

1. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Fincher
2. “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Ron Howard
3. “Milk” (Focus Features), Gus Van Sant
4. “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Stephen Daldry
5. “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle

BEST DOCUMENTARY PICTURE :

1. “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Cinema Guild), A Pandinlao Films Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
2. “Encounters at the End of the World” (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment), A Creative Differences Production, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
3. “The Garden” A Black Valley Films Production, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
4. “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
5. “Trouble the Water” (Zeitgeist Films), An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY PICTURE:

1. “The Conscience of Nhem En” A Farallon Films Production, Steven Okazaki
2. “The Final Inch” A Vermilion Films Production, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
3. “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
4. “The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306” A Rock Paper Scissors Production, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

BEST EDITOR :

1. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
2. “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lee Smith
3. “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
4. “Milk” (Focus Features), Elliot Graham
5. “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE MOVIE:

1. “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production, Germany
2. “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production, France
3. “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
4. “Revanche” (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
5. “Waltz with Bashir” (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production, Israel

BEST MAKE-UP:

1. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom
2. “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
3. “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Universal), Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

BEST FILM SCORE :

1. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.),Alexandre Desplat
2. “Defiance” (Paramount Vantage), James Newton Howard
3. “Milk” (Focus Features), Danny Elfman
4. “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman
5. “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Thomas Newman

BEST ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK:

1. “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
2. “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
3. “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman andMaya Arulpragasam

BEST SOUND :

1. “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Richard King
2. “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
3. “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Tom Sayers
4. “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
5. “Wanted” (Universal),Wylie Stateman

BEST SOUND MIXING:

1. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
2. “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
3. “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
4. “WALL-E” (Walt Disney),Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
5. “Wanted” (Universal), Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

1. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
2. “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
3. “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

BEST SCRIPTWRITER(ADAPTATION):

1. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
2. “Doubt” (Miramax), Written by John Patrick Shanley
3. “Frost/Nixon” (Universal), Screenplay by Peter Morgan
4. “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Hare
5. “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPTWRITER:

1. “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Courtney Hunt
2. “Happy-Go-Lucky” (Miramax), Written by Mike Leigh
3. “In Bruges” (Focus Features), Written by Martin McDonagh
4. “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black
5. “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

BEST SHORT ANIMATION :

1. “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato
2. “Lavatory - Lovestory” A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production, Konstantin Bronzit
3. “Oktapodi” (Talantis Films) A Gobelins, L’école de l’image Production, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
4. “Presto” (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Doug Sweetland
5. “This Way Up”, A Nexus Production, Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

BEST SHORT MOVIE :

1. “Auf der Strecke (On the Line)” (Hamburg Shortfilmagency), An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
2. “Manon on the Asphalt” (La Luna Productions), A La Luna Production, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
3. “New Boy” (Network Ireland Television), A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
4. “The Pig” An M & M Production, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
5. “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank