Best Picture

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

Best Actor

• Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
• WINNER 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
• WINNER Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Supporting Actor

• Josh Brolin, Milk
• Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
• WINNER Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
• Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams, Doubt
• WINNER Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis, Doubt
• Taraji Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Director

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

Best Original Screenplay

• Frozen River
• WINNER Milk
• In Bruges
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Wall*E

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• The Reader
• WINNER Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Film

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• WINNER Wall*E

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Baader Meinhof Complex
• The Class
• WINNERDepartures
• Revanche
• Waltz With Bashir

Best Art Direction

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

Cinematography

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

Sound Mixing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• WINNER Slumdog Millionaire
• Wall*E
• Wanted

Sound Editing

• WINNER The Dark Knight
• Iron Man
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Wall*E
• Wanted

Original Score

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Defiance
• Milk
• WINNER Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL*E

Original Song

• "Down to Earth" from WALL*E
• WINNER "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire
• "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire

Costume

• Australia
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• WINNER The Duchess
• Milk
• Revolutionary Road

Documentary Feature

• The Betrayal
• Encounters at the End of the World
• The Garden
• WINNER Man on Wire
• Trouble the Water

Documentary (short subject):

• The Conscience of Nhem En
• The Final Inch
• WINNER Smile Pinki
• The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306

Makeup

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

Animated Short Film

• WINNER La Maison en Petits Cubes
• Lavatory — Lovestory
• Oktapodi
• Presto
• This Way Up

Live Action Short Film

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

Visual Effects

• WINNER The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Iron Man