Academy Awards 2009 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Feature Film	Best Foreign Language Film
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Best Live Action Short Film	Best Animated Short Film
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Frost/Nixon (Frank Langella)
• Milk (Sean Penn)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt)
• The Visitor (Richard Jenkins)
• The Wrestler (Mickey Rourke)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Changeling (Angelina Jolie)
• Doubt (Meryl Streep)
• Frozen River (Melissa Leo)
• Rachel Getting Married (Anne Hathaway)
• The Reader (Kate Winslet)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Doubt (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
• Milk (Josh Brolin)
• Revolutionary Road (Michael Shannon)
• The Dark Knight (Heath Ledger)
• Tropic Thunder (Robert Downey Jr)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Doubt (Viola Davis)
• Doubt (Amy Adams)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Taraji P. Henson)
• The Wrestler (Marisa Tomei)
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Penélope Cruz)

Best Original Screenplay

• Frozen River
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• In Bruges
• Milk
• WALL·E

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Reader

Best Animated Feature Film

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• WALL·E

Best Foreign Language Film

• Departures (Japan)
• Revanche (Austria)
• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
• The Class (France)
• Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Documentary Short

• Smile Pinki
• The Conscience of Nhem En
• The Final Inch
• The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306

Best Live Action Short Film

• Manon on the Asphalt
• New Boy
• On the Line
• The Pig
• Toyland

Best Animated Short Film

• Lavatory Lovestory
• Oktapodi
• Presto
• The House of Small Cubes
• This Way Up

Best Original Score

• Defiance
• Milk
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• WALL·E

Best Original Song

• Slumdog Millionaire ("O Saya")
• Slumdog Millionaire ("Jai Ho")
• WALL·E ("Down to Earth")

Best Sound Editing

• Iron Man
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Dark Knight
• WALL·E
• Wanted

Best Sound Mixing

• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• WALL·E
• Wanted

Best Art Direction

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

Best Cinematography

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

Best Makeup

• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight

Best Costume Design

• Australia
• Milk
• Revolutionary Road
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Duchess

Best Film Editing

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

Best Visual Effects

• Iron Man
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight