The 81st Academy Awards: Hosted by Hugh Jackman

ABC .com ^ | 2/22/09

[lewisglad]

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 Animated Feature Film 'Bolt' 'Kung Fu Panda' 'Wall-E' Best Foreign Film 'The Baader Meinhof Complex' Germany 'The Class'France 'Departures'Japan 'Revanche' Austria 'Waltz With Bashir' Israel

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

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

Best Documentary Feature 'The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)' 'Encounters at the End of the World' 'The Garden' 'Man on Wire' 'Trouble the Water' Best Original Score 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' 'Defiance' 'Milk' 'Slumdog Millionaire' 'WALL-E'

Best Original Song 'Down to Earth'

'WALL-E' 'Jai Ho'

'Slumdog Millionaire' 'O Saya'

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

[Liberty Valance]

What a refreshing post.

[eleni121]

AG-—Agreed. Almost as tragic as LB

[nufsed]

You lose.

[Ditter]

Hugh Jackman is the best looking hunk to show up on the screen (or anywhere) in a very long time. He doesn’t need to act, all he has to do is stand there and he gets my vote.

[Revolting cat!]

She was a beauty all right. But so was Ava Gardner IMO

Yes, so was Heather Schmertkau in Podunk!

[free-n-TX]

Not really, I’ll catch the highlights later.

[eleni121]

Let me know when sarah jessica woman stops talking— her voice grates. God her poor husband...

[nufsed]

I always like people who boycott something and then ask questions about how it’s going.

[free-n-TX]

It was a JOKE, you didn’t see my smiley face? Guess you needed me to put the sarc tag on....

[mojitojoe]

Pretty funny that they showed Angelina when Jennifer was onstage.
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and? Did skankalina have a puss on her face or was she covering Brad’s eyes? Must suck to be angie and have someone so much older than her have a much better figure.

[nufsed]

Acting!

[free-n-TX]

And, I only asked about Mickey Rooney, one of the best actors of his time. We only watch TCM. The only thing that caught my interest on this thread was the mention of him at the Oscars....

[eleni121]

Stiller’s as flat as pancake.

[hugorand]

Angelina was smiling. Interesting that Jennifer was wearing white and Angelina was wearing black.

[Floratina]

He’s imitating Jaquin Phoenix.

[Justa]

Ok, weird story about this Hugh Jackman guy. In 2006 or thereabouts he shows up to Camp Victory, Baghdad for some kind of a MWR visit or something -I didn't know. So I'm visiting our hooch area one night and the offshift guys have a nice hickory fire going (outside) and this very weird looking guy is at the table drinking scotch and smoking a cigar with 2 of the guys. I'd never seen the X Men movies and wasn't keen about some guy apparently running around base with a really messed up, attitudinal hairdo -and down in our area. Iraq contracting life was enough of a freak show already so now we got hair shows going on too? So I give him the "who TF are you -weirdo?" look off and on for like 10 minutes while I'm standing around with the guys. I was not going to sit at the table with Mr. Freak-of-the-week. He was quiet and just listening to our guys talking. I didn't know. A few weeks later I see a DVD cover for one of the X Men movies and I recognize 'whatshisface' on the cover. Hey, I didn't know. It's probably a good thing considering what I think of hollyweird. I'd have gotten into his stuff no doubt.

[nufsed]

Biel, bad dress. You got it going on girl, show it.

[Borges]

Only four of the awards go to actors. The rest go to technicians. It’s usually one of the classiest TV shows on free TV any given year.

[truth_seeker]

Mickey Rooney is there tonight! How the heck old is he?”

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rourke

[gwilhelm56]

**Biel, bad dress. **

I couldn’t help but wonder... did they put it on her, BACKWARDS??