81st Academy Award Nominees

Best Picture

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director

* David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Stephen Daldry – The Reader
* Gus Van Sant – Milk
* Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
* Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon

Best Actor

* Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
* Sean Penn – Milk
* Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
* Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
* Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

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
* Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
* Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumous)

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 Original Screenplay

* WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter
* Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
* Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
* In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
* Milk - Dustin Lance Black

Best Adapted Screenplay

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
* Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
* The Reader - David Hare
* Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
* Doubt - John Patrick Shanley

Best Animated Feature

* Bolt
* Kung Fu Panda
* WALL-E

Best Foreign Language Film

* Revanche – Austria
* The Class – France
* The Baader Meinhof Complex – Germany
* Departures – Japan
* Waltz With Bashir – Israel

Best Animated Short

* La Maison En Petits Cubes
* Lavatory - Lovestory
* Oktapodi
* Presto
* This Way Up

Best Art Direction

* Changeling
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* The Duchess
* Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography

* Changeling
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire

Best Costume Design

* Australia
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Duchess
* Milk
* Revolutionary Road

Best Documentary Feature

* Nerakhoon (Nerakhoon)
* Encounters at the End of the World
* The Garden
* Man on Wire
* Trouble the Water

Best Documentary Short

* The Conscience of Nhem En
* The Final Inch
* Smile Pinki
* The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

Best Film Editing

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* Slumdog Millionaire

Best Live Action Short

* On the Line (Auf der Strecke)
* Manon On the Asphalt
* New Boy
* The Pig
* Toyland (Spielzeugland)

Best Makeup

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best Original Score

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
* Defiance – James Newton Howard
* Milk – Danny Elfman
* Slumdog Millionaire – A.R. Rahman
* WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

* "Down to Earth" from WALL-E – Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman (music), Peter Gabriel (lyrics)
* "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (music), Gulzar (lyrics)
* "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best Sound Editing

* The Dark Knight
* Iron Man
* Slumdog Millionaire
* WALL-E
* Wanted

Best Sound Mixing

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Slumdog Millionaire
* WALL-E
* Wanted

Best Visual Effects

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Iron Man

Films with multiple nominations

* 13 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* 10 Slumdog Millionaire
* 8 The Dark Knight, Milk
* 6 WALL-E
* 5 Doubt, Frost/Nixon, The Reader
* 3 Changeling, Revolutionary Road
* 2 The Duchess, Frozen River, Wanted, The Wrestler, Iron Man