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

[Cyropaedia]

DAMN! I wanted Rourke to win!

[Palladin]

Oh, foo! Sean Penn. The first political tirade of the night. Disappointing end to the evening.

[Floratina]

crap it’s Penn. are we going to be treated to another prop 8 lecture?

[gwilhelm56]

yes PENN ... you do that well you commie homoloving sonofa ... make it Very difficult to like you

[BunnySlippers]

I hate Sean Penn!

[racing fan]

I just tuned in after watching a dvd. I tuned in for this?

[Arizona Carolyn]

I turned it off immediately... wonder how many TV sets around the country suddenly changed channels and if they mark that at Nielson.

[Petronski]

Why am I watching this crap?

I tuned in just long enough to see Winslet's acceptance. Her win almost redeems the whole show.

[Yardstick]

This is the first I've heard of Ran. Looks interesting from your pic. What's the premise?

[Borges]

A lot better than he was in Mystic River anyway. That was almost a parody of Method Acting.

[Petronski]

Rod Lurie . . . wrote a big editorial about The Reader effectively being "Nazi-apologia".

He sounds like he might have been an idiot that day.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I was rooting for Mickey to win.

[Palladin]

Penn: BLABLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH. Sucking up to Obama—calls him “an elegant man”.
What? No Bush-bashing? How could he miss this opportunity.

[dfwgator]

My reaction to Sean Penn winning:

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Homo loving Commies? Does Sean secretly Freep?!?!

Oh here come the Prop 8 manifesto...

Barf alert...elegant man President!?! How are your investments Sean???

He didn’t thank the little woman did he?

[nutmeg]

Sean Penn, Best actor. Everybody get ready to turn it.

I'm outta here. I hope "Slumdog Millionaire" gets best picture NOT "Milk". I won't hold my breath...

Oh here comes the gay rights lecture and praise for Obama The Messiah by Penn... good night everybody. I'm physically sick now...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

He missed bashing President Bush or Haliburton in his speech.

[Borges]

It’s a loose adaptation of King Lear to Feudal Japan.

[spectre]

Awh geeze...He just made a plea for Gay's to be able to marry...Then he thanks the country for electing Obama.

He's scum.

[Cyropaedia]

Essentially, King Lear set in 16th Century Feudal Japan. That's probably the best way to think of it.