2009 Academy Award winners list

2009 Academy Award winners list

The 81st Annual Academy Awards has been held on Sunday night at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.

Some went home with an Oscar and some went home empty handed.

The film "Slumdog Millionaire" is in top of Academy Awards 2009 winners list, it has won 8 Oscars.

Best actress honors went to Kate Winslet for her performance in "The Reader".

Sean Penn won best actor award for his role in "Milk".

Late Heath Ledger won best supporting actor award for his role in "The Dark Knight".

Here is the list of winners and nominees. Winners are in bold :

BEST PICTURE:

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*Milk

*Slumdog Millionaire

*The Reader

*Frost/Nixon


BEST DIRECTOR:

*Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

*Gus Van Sant, Milk

*Stephen Daldry, The Reader

*Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon

*David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


BEST ACTOR:

*Sean Penn, Milk

*Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon

*Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*Richard Jenkins, The Visitor

*Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler


BEST ACTRESS:

*Kate Winslet, The Reader

*Melissa Leo, Frozen River

*Angelina Jolie, Changeling

*Meryl Streep, Doubt

*Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

*Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt

*Josh Brolin, Milk

*Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

*Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

*Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*Viola Davis, Doubt

*Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

*Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*Amy Adams, Doubt

*Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona


BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

*Happy-Go-Lucky

*Frozen River

*Wall-E

*Milk

*In Bruges


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

*The Reader

*Slumdog Millionaire

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*Frost/Nixon

*Doubt


BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

*Peter Gabriel/Thomas Newman — Down to Earth, Wall-E

*A.R. Rahman/Maya Arulpragasam — O Saya, Slumdog Millionaire

*A.R. Rahman/Gulzar — Jai Ho, Slumdog Millionaire


BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

*James Newton Howard, Defiance

*Alexandre Duplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*Thomas Newman, Wall-E

*A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire

*Danny Elfman, Milk


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:

*Bolt

*Wall-E

*Kung Fu Panda


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

*Departures

*The Class

*The Baader Meinhof Complex

*Waltz With Bashir

*Revanche


BEST ART DIRECTION:

*The Duchess

*The Dark Knight

*Changeling

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*Revolutionary Road


BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*The Reader

*Slumdog Millionaire

*Changeling

*The Dark Knight

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

*Australia

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*Revolutionary Road

*Milk

*The Duchess


BEST FEATURE DOCUMENTARY:

*Encounters at the End of the World

*Man on a Wire

*The Betrayal

*Trouble the Water

*The Garden


BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY:

*The Final Inch

*The Conscience of Nhem En

*Smile Pinki

*The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306


BEST EDITING:

*Frost/Nixon

*Milk

*The Dark Knight

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*Slumdog Millionaire


BEST MAKEUP:

*Hellboy II: The Golden Army

*The Dark Knight

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


BEST ANIMATED SHORT:

*Oktapodi

*Presto

*La Maison en Petits Cubes

*This Way Up

*Lavatory — Lovestory


BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT:

*Manon on the Asphalt

*The Pig

*New Boy

*Auf der Strecke (On the Line)

*Spielzeugland (Toyland)


BEST SOUND EDITING:

*Iron Man

*Slumdog Millionaire

*Wanted

*Wall-E

*The Dark Knight


BEST SOUND MIXING:

*Wall-E

*Slumdog Millionaire

*Wanted

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*The Dark Knight


BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

*The Dark Knight

*Iron Man

*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button