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Best Motion Picture of the Year :

- Slumdog Millionaire [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Frost/Nixon
- Milk
- The Reader

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role :

- Sean Penn - Milk [winner]
- Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
- Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
- Mickey Rourke - TheWrestler

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role :

- Kate Winslet - The Reader [winner]
- Angelina Jolie - Changeling
- F Meryl Streep - Doubt
- Melissa Leo - Frozen River
- Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role :

- Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight [winner]
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
- Josh Brolin - Milk
- Michael Shannon (V) - Revolutionary Road
- Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role :

- Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona [winner]
- Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Amy Adams (III) - Doubt
- Viola Davis - Doubt
- Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best Achievement in Directing :

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

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year :

- Okuribito / The departures - Japan. [winner]
- Entre les murs - France.
- Baader Meinhof Komplex, Der - Germany.
- Revanche - Austria.
- Vals Im Bashir - Israel.

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year :

- WALL·E - Andrew Stanton [winner]
- Bolt - Chris Williams (IX), Byron Howard
- Kung Fu Panda - John Stevenson (XI), Mark Osborne

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen :

- Milk - Dustin Lance Black [winner]
- Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
- In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
- WALL·E - Andrew Stanton (screenplay/story) ;
- Jim Reardon (screenplay), Pete Docter (story)

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published :

- Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -
- Eric Roth (screenplay/story), Robin Swicord (story)
- Doubt - John Patrick Shanley
- The Reader - David Hare
- Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan

Best Achievement in Cinematography :

- Anthony Dod Mantle - Slumdog Millionaire [winner]
- Claudio Miranda - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Tom Stern - Changeling
- Wally Pfister - The Dark Knight
- Chris Menges ; Roger Deakins - The Reader

Best Achievement in Art Direction :

- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Donald Graham Burt (art director) [winner]
- Victor J. Zolfo (set decorator)
- Changeling - James J. Murakami (art director)
- Gary Fettis (set decorator)
- The Dark Knight - Nathan Crowley (art director)
- Peter Lando (set decorator)
- Duchess, The - Michael Carlin (art director)
- Rebecca Alleway (set decorator)
- Revolutionary Road - Kristi Zea (art director)
- Debra Schutt (set decorator)

Best Achievement in Costume Design :

- Duchess, The - Michael O’Connor [winner]
- Australia - Catherine Martin
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jacqueline West
- Milk - Danny Glicker
- Revolutionary Road - Albert Wolsky

Best Achievement in Sound :

- Slumdog Millionaire - Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -
- David Parker (III), Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
- The Dark Knight - Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
- WALL·E - Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
- Wanted - Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Best Achievement in Editing :

- Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
- The Dark Knight - Lee Smith
- Frost/Nixon - Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley
- Milk - Elliot Graham

Best Achievement in Sound Editing :

- The Dark Knight - Richard King [winner]
- Iron Man - Frank E. Eulner, Christopher Boyes
- Slumdog Millionaire - Tom Sayers, Glenn Freemantle
- WALL·E - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
- Wanted - Wylie Stateman

Best Achievement in Visual Effects :

- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [winner]
- Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
- Iron Man - John Nelson
- The Dark Knight -
- Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, Paul J. Franklin
- Ben Snow, Daniel Sudick, Shane Mahan

Best Achievement in Makeup :

- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Greg Cannom [winner]
- The Dark Knight - John Caglione Jr., Conor O’Sullivan
- Hellboy II : The Golden Army - Mike Elizalde, Thomas Floutz

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song :

- Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman (music), Sampooran Singh Gulzar (lyrics) - For the song "Jai Ho". [winner]
- Slumdog Millionaire -
- A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam - For the song "O Saya".
- WALL·E - Peter Gabriel (music/lyrics), Thomas Newman (music) - For the song "Down to Earth".

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score :

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

Best Short Film, Animated :

- Maison en petits cubes, La - Kunio Katô [winner]
- Oktapodi (2007) - Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
- Presto - Doug Sweetland
- This Way Up - Alan Smith (XVII), Adam Foulkes
- Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya (2007) - Konstantin Bronzit

Best Short Film, Live Action :

- Spielzeugland / Toyland (2007) - Jochen Alexander Freydank [winner]
- Auf der Strecke (2007) - Reto Caffi
- Grisen - Tivi Magnusson, Dorthe Warnø Høgh
- Manon sur le bitume (2007) - Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
- New Boy (2007) - Steph Green, Tamara Anghie

Best Documentary, Short Subject :

- Smile Pinki - Megan Mylan [winner]
- Conscience of Nhem En, The - Steven Okazaki
- Final Inch, The (2009) - Irene Taylor Brodsky ; Tom Grant
- Witness from the Balcony of Room 306, The -
- Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde

Best Documentary, Features :

- Man on Wire - James Marsh, Simon Chinn [winner]
- Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The - Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
- Encounters at the End of the World (2007) - Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser
- Garden, The - Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Trouble the Water - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal