As I have predicted, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button won the Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Visual Effects and Wall-e won the Best Animated Picture!
Yeah!
Here's the complete list of the winners of the 81st Annual Academy Awards:
- Best Motion Picture of the Year
Other Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Ceán Chaffin, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
Frost/Nixon: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner
Milk: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
The Reader: Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Other Nominees:
Richard Jenkins for The Visitor
Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Other Nominees:
Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie for Changeling
Melissa Leo for Frozen River
Meryl Streep for Doubt
- Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Other Nominees:
Josh Brolin for Milk
Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt
Michael Shannon for Revolutionary Road
- Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Other Nominees:
Amy Adams for Doubt
Viola Davis for Doubt
Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei for The Wrestler
- Best Achievement in Directing
Other Nominees:
Stephen Daldry for The Reader
David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant for Milk
- Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Other Nominees:
Frozen River: Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky: Mike Leigh
In Bruges: Martin McDonagh
WALL·E: Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon
- Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Other Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
Doubt: John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon: Peter Morgan
The Reader: David Hare
- Best Achievement in Cinematography
Other Nominees:
Changeling: Tom Stern
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight: Wally Pfister
The Reader: Roger Deakins, Chris Menges
- Best Achievement in Editing
Other Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
The Dark Knight: Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon: Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
Milk: Elliot Graham
- Best Achievement in Art Direction
Other Nominees:
Changeling: James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
The Dark Knight: Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
The Duchess: Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
Revolutionary Road: Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
- Best Achievement in Costume Design
Other Nominees:
Australia: Catherine Martin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Jacqueline West
Milk: Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road: Albert Wolsky
- Best Achievement in Makeup
Other Nominees:
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 Score
Other Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Alexandre Desplat
Defiance: James Newton Howard
Milk: Danny Elfman
WALL·E: Thomas Newman
- Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Other Nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam("O Saya")
WALL·E: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman("Down to Earth")
- Best Achievement in Sound
Other Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
The Dark Knight: Ed Novick, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo
WALL·E: Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
Wanted: Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt
- Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Other Nominees:
Iron Man: Frank E. Eulner, Christopher Boyes
Slumdog Millionaire: Tom Sayers
WALL·E: Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted: Wylie Stateman
- Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Other Nominees:
The Dark Knight: Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, Paul J. Franklin
Iron Man: John Nelson, Ben Snow, Daniel Sudick, Shane Mahan
- Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Other Nominees:
Bolt: Chris Williams, Byron Howard
Kung Fu Panda: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne
- Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Other Nominees:
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex(Germany)
Entre les murs(France)
Revanche(Austria)
Vals Im Bashir(Israel)
- Best Documentary, Features
Other Nominees:
The Betrayal - Nerakhoon: Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
Encounters at the End of the World: Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser
The Garden: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Trouble the Water: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
- Best Documentary, Short Subjects
Other Nominees:
The Conscience of Nhem En: Steven Okazaki
The Final Inch: Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306: Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde
- Best Short Film, Animated
Other Nominees:
Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya: Konstantin Bronzit
Oktapodi: Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
Presto: Doug Sweetland
This Way Up: Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes
- Best Short Film, Live Action
Other Nominees:
Auf der Strecke: Reto Caffi
Manon sur le bitume: Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
New Boy: Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
Grisen: Tivi Magnusson, Dorthe Warnø Høgh
Yay! I feel satisfied with the winners! My only regret, Wall-e could have made the list of Best Picture nominees. Well, see you next year, Oscar! :)
