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

[Clemenza]

Nah. Worst win of recent years was that STUPID Hobbit movie. Wanna talk about gay subtexts.

Be a man, SHOOT a Hobbit!

[Clemenza]

Monster’s Ball is one of those watch one time and one time only movies.

Y'ever see "Pink Flamingoes?"

[Clemenza]

Prop 8 was actually passed in LA County, where Hollyweird is located, thanks to the Latinos.

[Clemenza]

Trust me. The children and teens were laughing their duppahs off when they saw the men kissing.

[Clemenza]

Count me as one who found Wall-E to be syrupy and dull.

[fieldmarshaldj]

If you can sit through the execrable “Blue Lagoon” rip-off “Paradise”, you will be rewarded with even more of Phoebe, right down to the majestic pre-Brazilian era. I miss those days... :-(

[fieldmarshaldj]

One of my guilty pleasures. I admit to being a fan of John Waters (at least his earlier pre-mainstream work) and Divine (RIP).

“We’ll see who’s the filthiest person alive ! We’ll just see!”

[fieldmarshaldj]

Blacks helped, too.

[nufsed]

How can I have the last word when you're so desparate to call me an a-hole.

You started this with your noob attitude and you got slapped down. An honorable person would have apologized after being shown how wrong they can be when they think they know-it-all.

Too bad you haven't learned any manners in the 4+ years you've been trolling here.

[Clemenza]

Very true. They are way outnumbered by Latinos in LA County, but they still account for a large enough number to swing the vote. The Church Ladies from Compton to Palmdale have no love for the “fabulous” men in West Hollywood.

[nufsed]

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200902231300DOWJONESDJONLINE000439_FORTUNE5.htm

[nufsed]

IIRC a flame war involes two or more against 1. In this case, just trying to teach some one some manners.

[Valentine_W]

I will admit that I like the Jonas Brothers, but Miley Cyrus annoys me. I was pretty nonchalant about her until I saw her interview on Ellen where she couldn’t stop giggling about her 20 year old boyfriend.

[freedumb2003]

Thanks!

I was hoping it would go down, so we could see a year-over-year trend. But it looks like many A-listers blew it off this year so, even among the stipidatzzi, there is hope.

[freedumb2003]

Like I said, I came in at the end and didn’t want to backtrack... :)

[nufsed]

Yeah. It’s better not to, then you’d have to actually form an opinion based upon facts. Easier to be neutral.

[nufsed]

When they awarded the supporting and best categories, five big time stars read the nominations for each category. That put 40 A-listers on camera in a short period of time.

[Impy]

Over 2 million black Californians, but they’re just 6% of the total population.