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

[Palladin]

The first to get a Post Mortem Oscar after drugging himself into oblivion in an anorectic druggie actress’s apartment.

[truthkeeper]

Judy Garland’s rendition of “The Man That Got Away” has got to be one of the greatest vocal performances ever recorded. I can’t even think of a superlative to do it justice, except perhaps “perfection.”

[Chunga]

I’ll have to do that, yes, because what I know about her, and admittedly it isn’t much

You don't say?

[Revolting cat!]

According to Peter Bogdanovich himself, who has been a better film historian than directory (arguably), the golden age of America Cinema was 1912-1972, roughly. I agree. What you are voting for, so to speak, is Hollywood's distant past and not its presence or foreseeable future.

In fact, what seems to about to replace Hollywood is Bollywood, that is now producing wholesome, if often silly entertainment, with intelligent, educated, articulate actors and directors, who along with that industry will grow. Hollywood is in the sewer!

[Revolting cat!]

Dorothy’s friend, ain’t ya?!

[hugorand]

He’ll always just be Jeff Spicoli to me.

I can't take Sean Penn seriously after this photo op in New Orleans bailing his own rescue boat out

[Floratina]

Man On Wire! Good.

[BunnySlippers]

It’s not over yet.

Unless you are a Frenchie surrender freak.

[Melissa 24]

The best Oscar show I’ve seen since the early days of Billy Crystal.
Jackman is doing a fantastic job and so far there has been little or no politiking!
I am truly enjoying this.

[Palladin]

This was his shining moment!

[nufsed]

What is it that makes someone so stupid as to come out and ridicule the beliefs of others?

[morans14]

lol. The first time I saw that picture I thought Spicoli

[marajade]

they were all legal drugs blame the pharmacist

[Borges]

It’s funny that PB cuts off the great period so early into his own career. I would end the great period in the early 1980s. It could be great again if people around here and many others would take cinema seriously like they used to in the 1950s.

[BunnySlippers]

Let’s not forget that a lot of hatred of Hollywood is envy as well.

[spectre]

He had a dress rehearsal for that ending when he was in “Candy”.

[nufsed]

I think you’re being generous calling her an actress. She LOOKS like a heroin addict.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

What do you think about a Hollywood competitor?

In Branson Missouri, for example.

It only took Fox News 10 years to knock out every other channel, in viewership, influence and momentum.

The market (contrary to what your current batch of nitwits in Washington thinks) works.

What’s needed is real competition. An alternative, which will simply put Hollywood out of business.

By doing the job, better.

[Texas Eagle]

Maybe you can hit the abuse button and delete yourself.

Sheesh. You people who worship Godless, America-bashing, freedom-destroying, homosexual-promoting, global-warming-believing sacks of left-wing crap sure are touchy.

[BunnySlippers]

The same people that love Saving Private Ryan Hate Hollywood.