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Monday, February 23, 2009

Oscar List of Winners!

You would notice that my last few post was with regard to the Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Visual Effects. Now to put a sort of closure to it, I'm posting the winners of the recent concluded 81st Annual Academy Awards.

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
WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire: Christian Colson

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
WINNER: Sean Penn for Milk

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
WINNER:Kate Winslet for The Reader

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
WINNER: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight

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
WINNER: Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona

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
WINNER: Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire

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
WINNER: Milk: Dustin Lance Black

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
WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire: Simon Beaufoy

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
WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire: Anthony Dod Mantle

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
WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire: Chris Dickens

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
WINNER: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo

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
WINNER: The Duchess: Michael O'Connor

Other Nominees:
Australia: Catherine Martin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Jacqueline West
Milk: Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road: Albert Wolsky

  • Best Achievement in Makeup
WINNER: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Greg Cannom

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
WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman

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
WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Singh Gulzar("Jai Ho")

Other Nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam("O Saya")
WALL·E: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman("Down to Earth")

  • Best Achievement in Sound
WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire: Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty

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
WINNER: The Dark Knight: Richard King

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
WINNER: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron

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
WINNER: WALL·E: Andrew Stanton

Other Nominees:
Bolt: Chris Williams, Byron Howard

Kung Fu Panda: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne


  • Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
WINNER: Okuribito(Japan)

Other Nominees:
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex(Germany)
Entre les murs(France)
Revanche(Austria)
Vals Im Bashir(Israel)

  • Best Documentary, Features
WINNER: Man on Wire: James Marsh, Simon Chinn

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
WINNER: Smile Pinki: Megan Mylan

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
WINNER: Maison en petits cubes, La: Kunio Katô

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
WINNER: Spielzeugland: Jochen Alexander Freydank

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! :)