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

[Borges]

I could never sit through Kagemusha. Love ‘Ran’ though.

[lainie]

ugggh.

[Cedar]

I had to turn the Oscar show off after they kept showing movie clips of Sean Penn kissing another man.

Hollywood loves to push homo stuff.

Decided to just read this thread instead.

[Texas Eagle]

If you are the example of AMERICAN VALUES ... I dont’ want any.

That goes without saying.

ONCE AGAIN.. you don’t like our company ...GO THE EFF AWAY!!

Once again...no.

[Palladin]

Now HERE’S a Great American—Jerry Lewis.

What a guy! I still enjoy watching his old movies on TV.

God Bless him!

[dfwgator]

It used to just be independent movies that were all about gay cowboys eating pudding, now it’s in mainstream movies as well.

[Borges]

Most Best Picture winners tend to be fairly conservative (Schindler;'s List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, Gladiator, Return of the King...).

But hey you've got yourself in a pleasing fit of indignation. Why confuse it with facts? Look up some ten year old Tim Robbins or Sean Penn quote and use it as proof that movies are all evil incarnate. It makes for good boarding. :-)

[nufsed]

yes, my first movie favorites were Martin and Lewis. As a kid, I was puzzled when they broke up.

[dfwgator]

Most Best Picture winners tend to be fairly conservative (Schindler;'s List, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Titanic, Shakespeare in Love, Gladiator, Return of the King...).

Uhh, American Beauty, anyone?

[Cedar]

Yes, and not only in the movies, but on television also.

Sad. People don’t know the difference between right and wrong anymore.

[nufsed]

I’d add from this year, Slum Dog, Button, Dark Night. I guess those raving liberal movies should be boycotted.

[gost2]

Horsefeathers! She was just another spoiled hollyweird misfit. You probably revere Elvis too.

[Borges]

That was an exception. And one of the worst films to ever win BP.

[Texas Eagle]

If there’s a bad book or a bad song do you think the entire publishing or music industry is bad?

A) I don't think the book industry goes to the lengths the movie industry goes to to slap itself on the back like the movie industry does.

B) If this was a thread about the Grammys, I probably would be doing the same thing. The recording industry is just as anti-American as the movie industry.

Except for country music of course. And Gospel. And contemporary Christian. Those I'm fine with.

[Palladin]

“Seven Samurais” is on Tues. night on Turner Classics. I’ve never seen it. It will be interesting to see his early work.I loved “Derzu Uzala”. It made me cry.

[BunnySlippers]

Is there ant art form that you like without reservation? I didn’t think so.

[Borges]

She was actually prety badly treated by a variety of people she trusted and was determined not to spoil her own children.

[Cyropaedia]

Ran is awesome.

Better than any of the films nominated tonight.

It's a travesty that it didn't win Best Foreign Film Oscar.

[dfwgator]

IMHO, “The Lives of Others”, a German film was better than any of Best Picture winners this decade.

[nufsed]

Interesting that Lewis made a short, succinct humble acceptance speech. I thought he might hang around the mic awhile. He did a good job.