NOMINASI ACADEMY AWARDS 2009

Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Mickey Rourke,

Demikian fakta yang terkuak dari daftar lengkap para nomine ajang Academy Award ke-81 yang diumumkan 22 Januari 2009, di Beverly Hills. Hal unik lain yang juga terungkap adalah munculnya nama almarhum Heath Ledger dalam nomine untuk posisi aktor pendukung terbaik yang dimainkannya dalam film The Dark Knight. Menjadi unik, lantaran pengumuman ini dibacakan tepat pada hari kematiannya yang terjadi setahun silam. Malam penyerahan piala baru akan dilakukan tanggal 22 Februari di Los Angeles.

1. Best Picture:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Reader

Slumdog Millionaire

2. 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

3. Best Actress:

Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

Angelina Jolie , Changeling

Melissa Leo , Frozen River

Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Winslet , The Reader

4. Best Supporting Actor:

Josh Brolin, Milk

Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt

Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

5. 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

6. Best Director:

David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon

Gus Van Sant, Milk

Stephen Daldry, The Reader

Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

7. Best Foreign Film:

The Baader Meinhof Complex, Germany

The Class, France

Departures, Japan

Revanche, Austria

Waltz With Bashir, Israel

8. Best Adapted Screenplay:

Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

John Patrick Shanley, Doubt

Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon

David Hare, The Reader

Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

9. Best Original Screenplay:

Courtney Hunt, Frozen River

Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky

Martin McDonagh, In Bruges

Dustin Lance Black, Milk

Andrew Stanton , Jim Reardon and Pete Docter, WALL-E

10. Best Animated Feature Film:

Bolt

Kung Fu Panda

WALL-E

11. Best Art Direction:

Changeling

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight

The Duchess

Revolutionary Road

12. Best Cinematography :

Changeling

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight

The Reader

Slumdog Millionaire

13. Best Sound Mixing:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight

Slumdog Millionaire

WALL-E

Wanted

14. Best Sound Editing:

The Dark Knight

Iron Man

Slumdog Millionaire

WALL-E

Wanted

15. 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

16. Best Original Song:

Down to Earth from WALL-E Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman

Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire A.R. Rahman and Gulzar

O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam.

17. Best Costume:

Australia

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Duchess

Milk

Revolutionary Road

18. Best Documentary Feature:

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

Encounters at the End of the World

The Garden

Man on Wire

Trouble the Water

19. Best Documentary ( short subject ):

The Conscience of Nhem En

The Final Inch

Smile Pinki

The Witness From the Balcony of Room 306

20. Best Film Editing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight

Frost/Nixon

Milk

Slumdog Millionaire

21. Best Makeup:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

22. Visual Effects:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight

Iron Man

Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie , Melissa Leo , Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet