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

[gwilhelm56]

You did have to mention that B**** Sarandon... grrrrr 10 years and I’d still like to kick her and her scumsucking partner of hers.

[Arizona Carolyn]

This whole prop 8 thing in California is disturbing... personally, I think there was a lot to be said for the studio “system” where the bosses had the stars under contract and they behaved and kept their mouth shut... I like that we didn’t know who was gay and who was straight.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yes, Titanic

[dfwgator]

This whole prop 8 thing in California is disturbing... personally, I think there was a lot to be said for the studio “system” where the bosses had the stars under contract and they behaved and kept their mouth shut.

And if the bosses didn't behave, they woke up with a horse's head in their bed.

[Valentine_W]

Has anyone here seen The Reader? I haven’t seen it yet because it looks too depressing to watch in the winter time! I was curious if the movie made Winslet’s character look terrible or more sympathetic. On the surface, you would think that this person her character is based upon would simply be very evil.

[Texas Eagle]

Two words: TEAM AMERICA! "**** yeah!"

I could only stomach about 15 minutes of Team America before I turned it off. What a waste of money.

Although I did get a kick out of that whole Film Actors Guild bit. Hee hee.

Well, gotta go, y'all. It's been fun.

God bless you and God bless America.

[Mad Dawgg]

"The device has yet to be invented that can measure just how little I care about the academy awards."

A M*A*S*H Tv Series Fan eh?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yet.. you have time to stop by and tell us that news flash...

[mysterio]

Kate Winslet looked great.

[altura]

I haven’t seen anything yet but my daughter watched everything but Milk and thought Meryl Streep should have won for Doubt.

I think Hollywood is tired of Meryl.

[Cyropaedia]

I believe he's done some speaking on the "campaign trail", and I know that he's donated $$$ to Clinton's campaign. He said that we should have made a guy like Clinton "King".

I also read somewhere, that people connected with the DNC have approached him about running for public office. They thought that he would have a good chance in the "red states".

[dfwgator]

Kate Winslet looked great.

She always does, although I kinda liked her better when she had a few extra pounds on her.

[Palladin]

That was a nice shout-out to her mom and dad.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I rest my case... I’ll take Angelina and Brad over Sarandon and Tim Robbins any day of the week.

[BunnySlippers]

Is that de Niro?

[Arizona Carolyn]

~LOL~ yep...

grrrrr to Sean Penn! BTW

[BunnySlippers]

[dfwgator]

I always thought Mickey Rourke was great in Diner, I remember thinking at the time this guy was going to be a huge star.

[Arizona Carolyn]

She was so despicable in Devil Wears Prada you almost wondered if there was a little bit of her in that role.

[gwilhelm56]

Sounds like someone’s been living in SCOTLAND