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

[Arizona Carolyn]

~LOL~

Spielberg up now. Of just about everyone in Hollywood over the last thirty years he is my biggest disappointment -- well, him and George Lucus... I really wish both had kept their politics to themselves.

[Valentine_W]

I haven’t seen Revolutionary Road for the same reason...it looks too depressing to spend $10 on a Friday night to see! What a buzz kill that looks to be, lol. I will probably rent the Reader when it comes out on DVD...from what I’d seen, it looked like it tried to humanize Winslet’s character. The danger is in doing that, there is a tendency to excuse the grave mistakes the main character made. I was wondering if the Reader did that.

[nutmeg]

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

You tuned in at exactly the worst part of the evening. The previous hours were overall pretty entertaining, IMO...

[Arizona Carolyn]

Why in the world did she reconcile with him anyway, she is MUCH too good for that commie-loving SOB.

[dfwgator]

Have they announced Best Foreign Film yet. I am intrigued by the Baader Meinhof movie, because Martina Gedeck who was so great in The Lives of Others was in it. I just hope the movie wasn’t too sympathetic to them.

[Cyropaedia]

And he actually did deliver the better performance. Well, I didn't see Milk, but I was blown away by Rourke in The Wrestler. He deserved it.

But they had to make a statement about Prop 8.

[denydenydeny]

Hey Sean, go beat your wife again to celebrate, you malignant dwarf.

I think the only way you can explain Sean Penn is that he sees his strident political activism as a Dorian Gray picture that he must present to the world, in order to atone psychologically for his horrific behavior in his private life.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Haliburton is good again.. now that they are constructing all of Obama’s “prison” camps around the country... at least I read that is who’s building them for Obama.

[dfwgator]

With Sean’s knowledge of geopolitics, I’d say he needs to spend more time with Mr. Hand. (I mean the teacher)

[John W]

Departures, Japan

[Petronski]

By the way, if you enjoyed The Lives of Others, get yourself a copy of Der Tunnel, about escape from East Berlin.

In fact, they'd make a great double feature.

[hugorand]

Slumdog Millionaire best picture

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I still don’t understand how they could get behind a movie that pits two major Democrat groups against each other ( Milk ). Gays versus deeply disturbed individuals.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Whew, at least MILK didn’t get best picture!

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Best Picture...Slum Dog!!!

[dfwgator]

Good.

[Valentine_W]

I was on a vacation in Big Sur during the whole Prop 8 ordeal in CA. I couldn’t believe how polarized everyone was on the issue. I assumed pretty much everyone in CA would be supportive of gay marriage rights. I was wrong though.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Everyone says this is an outstanding movie... even Fred Barnes and Mort Kondrake agreed on this choice.

[Palladin]

YAY! Now I have to get out and see it.

[Floratina]

A nice elegant evening and of course Penn had to foul it with that language.