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

[morans14]

She really has a nice voice. I always forget that she can sing.

[Arizona Carolyn]

She was very good, this part always brings me to tears... one-by-one the really great artists are leaving this life.

[BunnySlippers]

TE is the keeper of all Freeper’s souls. He alone decides if they are godly or godless, good or evil. Worthy or not.

A real PITA.

[Texas Eagle]

Every time there is a feel-good thread on FR you show up to play Debbie Downer....

I guess it's my cross to bear.

if you are not interested in movies, why would you post anything on an academy award thread?

I never said I'm not interested in movies. I just object to the glorification, promotion, and self-aggrandizement of an industry that is largely hostile to American values.

This is not the Oscars of the 60s, 70s or even the 80s that I (and perhaps you, I don't know) grew up with.

By and large, these people hate you and me and everything we stand for.

Obviously I'm surmising that you and I stand for the same things.

[Valentine_W]

Ha, ha, I understand. I eat at local Afghan and Persian/Iranian cafes in DC all the time...they are usually always playing persian music videos...very entertaining! I wish I understood farsi.

[Palladin]

All those chicks are hot.

And I want to know how all those old guys on the variety shows always hook up with such gorgeous young women!

I don’t undertand a word, but Univision tickles my funnybone.

[BunnySlippers]

We used to have more female Freepers and started threads for the red carpet. Those days are gone.

[Arizona Carolyn]

~ROFLOL~

[Richard Kimball]

I can't think of one country song or country singer that promotes homsexuality as a normal, virtuous act that should be celebrated.

Willie Nelson. Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other.

Although I grew up in Texas and know some people that played the same circuit with Willie in the early sixties, I was never a fan.

[nutmeg]

The a-holes sat on their hands when Heston came up.

Disgusting... hardly any applause at all from those cretins for the great Charlton Heston.

[Texas Eagle]

You do not compromise ..until it comes to something you like. You’re a hypocrite.

Say it. The complete sentence. You can do it.

[dfwgator]

And I want to know how all those old guys on the variety shows always hook up with such gorgeous young women!

Oh I suspect the casting couch is alive and well in old Me-hee-co.

[Cyropaedia]

Two of the biggest names in Country Music, Garth Brooks and Willie Nelson, have recorded "pro-gay" songs.

Garth's sister (his bass player), is gay.

[Arizona Carolyn]

he was a Republican... what can we expect...

[Texas Eagle]

Willie Nelson. Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other.

Ick.

[Dionysius]

That Jai Ho was the most obnoxious bunch of presumptive cacaphony I’ve ever heard. They have a hell of a lot of nerve calling it a song, much less giving it the Oscar. Turn over gently in your beautiful St. Bonaventure grave, Johnny Mercer!

[tapatio]

This part of the shows I don’t like at all ... Get to be reminded of the GREAT ONES gone

I was thinking the same thing while watching that part.

[nutmeg]

We used to have more female Freepers and started threads for the red carpet. Those days are gone.

I know who a lot of those fun FReepers were who ran those great Oscar FR threads... I believe most of them were banned during The Great FR Purge of April 2007... :-(

FR hasn't been the same since, to be honest...

[BunnySlippers]

That just goes to show that all country music fans are godless and adore homosexuality.

[nutmeg]

he was a Republican... what can we expect...

Yep, and NRA leader...