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

[nutmeg]

I haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire yet, but I loved the soundtrack from Monsoon Wedding. Fabulous music.

[altura]

Don’t bother with the suit. Your flaming pales in comparison with what we’ve put up with tonite.

[gwilhelm56]

Purge??, I missed that .. details???

[Arizona Carolyn]

For the most part their clothing has improved considerably since the year Jennifer Lopez showed up with P-Diddy in that green cut to her crotch dress. one of the stars that really helped bring style back was Charlize Theron... it seemed to be okay when everyone was dressing crazy — ala Cher — but none of these women like to be shown up and all it took was a few to make the other women wake up and start dressing again.

[BunnySlippers]

You don’t get to have it both ways.

You want to call us homosexual lovers and the like. You don’t even follow what your profile professes!

[Texas Eagle]

Oh, yeah. The Dixie Chicks. I believe the country music industry dealt with their little anti-American diatribe. As opposed to showering them with accolades.

I hope you're not missing the show on my account.

[Borges]

but I see now that it has been a propganda machine from its beginning

I sound like a broken record but where do you see the evidence in Oscar winning films?

[John W]

“Hollywood and Nashville are polar opposites.”

Maybe in your heyday, cowboy, but not anymore.

[nutmeg]

I agree, nutmeg. Those gals were a caution!

Yes, we lost a LOT of great FReepers back in the "Purge" of '07. FR's and our loss, unfortunately...

[Palladin]

WOW! Can you believe Sophia Loren? She’s about 75.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Good grief! You don’t like Garth Brooks, either??? You are a strange duck for certain.

[Texas Eagle]

Faith Hill and her husband were Bush haters.

I'll take your word on that.

There were scads of Obamaniacs in country music.

Perhaps. But they weren't showered with accolades for it were they? Or were they? I don't know.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Best Actress now...Ann Hathaway crying as Shirley McLean intros her...

Yeah...Kate Winslet I hope she wins!!!Y

[Petronski]

One really must be careful decide who to like...they might be some kind of deviated queeeeer prevert.

[Cyropaedia]

In the grand scheme of things, Hollywood may just be "ahead of the curve", so to speak.

It's almost more fun to be "anti-liberal" these days. Just look at South Park. No one does a better job of skewering Hollywood liberals.

Of course, South Park is decidedly Libertarian; which does not endear them to everyone on the Right or Left.

[Texas Eagle]

Good grief! You don’t like Garth Brooks, either???

Huh? What? Oh, that crack about him possibly being gay? I was just kidding.

Sort of.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I have been unable to stand Faith Hill since she 1) dissed Bush and 2) dissed Carey Underwood.

[Texas Eagle]

Of course, South Park is decidedly Libertarian; which does not endear them to everyone on the Right or Left.

Tell me about it. I engaged the South Park kooks a couple of years ago. Whew! That was a thread.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I don’t dislike Angelina, she does walk the walk... and put herself and her money where her mouth is... unlike a whole lot of others like Susan Sarandon.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Sophia Loren is incredible...Streep has had 15 Nominations. Wow...