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

[free-n-TX]

Probably his last good role LOL. Even Madonna had sense to get rid of him and look at all the losers she has been with...

[Floratina]

Aw, he didn’t mention the Trojan Marching Band at the end of that number.

[Revolting cat!]

Frances Ethel Gumm was a pretentious no talent, alcoholic and a tragedy to her family perhaps, but certainly not to the rest of us.

[Palladin]

Or for singing. Hugh Jackman is a mess. He’s been singing offkey all evening.

[longtermmemmory]

remember the twilight zone episond with the good blond girl and the bad brunet girl fighting over the same country boy?

[nufsed]

Supporting actress was early and it’s noted on the thread.

[Williams]

Actually I think Ridgemont High sucks but i any event I don’t think his performance in anything has been Oscar quality.

[BunnySlippers]

I’m happy to disagree. I feel Hollywood in it’s century long history has remarkable gems and has mostly been all-American.

Ill; fight liberalism in film, but movies have been am American hit all over the world. I’m so glad American’s own the genre, not someone else.

Yeah, let’s disagree.

[hugorand]

I wonder what Etta James thinks of Beyonce singing At Last again.

[catbertz]

The wife is watching, and I can see it from my desk, and I have to say this is the worst year ever lol. It’s very flat and lifeless.

[morans14]

He’ll always just be Jeff Spicoli to me.

[nufsed]

She sang it in Cadillac Records and James didn’t like it and she let everyone know. However, I did.

[Borges]

She had a singing voice like no one else and, at least in ‘A Star is Born’ the weight of a geniune tragedienne (which she had in her singing at all times). Check out ‘Meet Me in St Louis’ and ‘The Pirate’ for her future husband’s almost fetishistic photography of her performances.

[BunnySlippers]

Beyonce was awful. That whole song/dance thing was horrible,

[Palladin]

OMG—they’ve all gotten SO OLD. Joel Grey looks like he’s been embalmed!

[hugorand]

Beyonce sang it at one of the inaugural balls, and Etta reportedly was not happy

[Petronski]

Thanks.

2+ hours and only one award? Ouch.

[BunnySlippers]

I’m happy to say that WE are not getting old.. :)

[truthkeeper]

I used to watch this show faithfully, but this is the first year I am absolutely refusing to participate. I simply cannot stomach any of more of the leftist agenda being shoved down my throat at this point in time. However, I'll read the comments on this thread because FReepers are always entertaining.

For those who are watching, carry on.

[Palladin]

Gawd! Chris Walken looks like my grandpa, who’s been dead for sixty years!