{"id":4550,"date":"2009-01-22T13:53:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T13:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2009-01-22T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T14:31:10","slug":"oscar-nominations-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/01\/22\/oscar-nominations-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1291\" style=\"margin: 1.5px;\" title=\"Oscar Nominations\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/oscar-noms.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Nominations\" width=\"164\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a>The Oscar nominations have been announced for the 81st Academy Awards.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong> leads the field with 13 nominations, including Best Picture.<\/p>\n<p>Other Best Picture contenders are <strong>Frost\/Nixon<\/strong>, <strong>Milk<\/strong>, <strong>The Reader<\/strong> and <strong>Slumdog Millionaire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They were announced Thursday morning at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences in Los Angeles by Academy President <strong>Sid Ganis<\/strong> and actor <strong>Forest Whitaker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 15 of the last 20 years, the film with the most nominations went on to win Best Picture, but that trend has changed in recent years with the top nominee only winning best pic in two of the last five years.<\/p>\n<p>The awards take place on\u00a0<strong>Sunday 22nd February<\/strong>\u00a0at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and will be hosted by <strong>Hugh Jackman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the nominations in full:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST PICTURE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Frost\/Nixon<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Milk<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Reader<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Slumdog Millionaire<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST <\/strong><strong>DIRECTOR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Danny Boyle<\/strong>, Slumdog Millionaire<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Fincher<\/strong>, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ron Howard<\/strong>, Frost\/Nixon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stephen Daldry<\/strong>, The Reader<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gus Van Sant<\/strong>, Milk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ACTRESS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anne Hathaway<\/strong>, Rachel Getting Married<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angelina Jolie<\/strong>, Changeling<\/li>\n<li><strong>Melissa Leo<\/strong>, Frozen River<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meryl Streep<\/strong>, Doubt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kate Winslet<\/strong>, The Reader<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ACTOR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Richard Jenkins<\/strong>, The Visitor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frank Langella<\/strong>, Frost\/Nixon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sean Penn<\/strong>, Milk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brad Pitt<\/strong>, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mickey Rourke<\/strong>, The Wrestler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Amy Adams<\/strong>, Doubt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Penelope Cruz<\/strong>, Vicky Cristina Barcelona<\/li>\n<li><strong>Viola Davis<\/strong>, Doubt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taraji P. Hensen<\/strong>, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marisa Tomei<\/strong>, The Wrestler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Josh Brolin<\/strong>, Milk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Downey Jr<\/strong>, Tropic Thunder<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phillip Seymour Hoffman<\/strong>, Doubt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heath Ledger<\/strong>, The Dark Knight<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Shannon<\/strong>, Revolutionary Road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Courtney Hunt<\/strong>, Frozen River<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Leigh<\/strong>, Happy-Go-Lucky<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dustin Lance Black<\/strong>, Milk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Martin McDonough<\/strong>, In Bruges<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrew Stanton<\/strong>, Wall-E<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Eric Roth<\/strong>, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Patrick Shanley<\/strong>, Doubt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peter Morgan<\/strong>, Frost\/Nixon<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Hare<\/strong>, The Reader<\/li>\n<li><strong>Simon Beaufoy<\/strong>, Slumdog Millionaire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bolt<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kung Fu Panda<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WALL-E<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Baader Meinhof Complex<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Class<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Departures<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Revanche<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Waltz With Bashir<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST DOCUMENTARY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Betrayal<\/strong> (Nerakhoon)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Encounters at the End of the World<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Garden<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Man on Wire<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Trouble the Water<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ORIGINAL SONG<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDown To Earth\u201d (WALL-E)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cJai Ho\u201d (Slumdog Millionaire)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cO Saya\u201d (Slumdog Millionaire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ORIGINAL SCORE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, Alexandre Desplat<\/li>\n<li><strong>Defiance<\/strong>, James Newton Howard<\/li>\n<li><strong>Milk<\/strong>, Danny Elfman<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slumdog Millionaire<\/strong>, A.R. Rahman<\/li>\n<li><strong>WALL-E<\/strong>, Thomas Newman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST COSTUME DESIGN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Australia<\/strong>, Catherine Martin<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, Jacqueline West<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Duchess<\/strong>,Michael O\u2019Connor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Milk,<\/strong>\u00a0Danny Glicker<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revolutionary Road<\/strong>, Albert Wolsky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST FILM EDITING<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, Kirk Baxter &amp; Angus Wall<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>, Lee Smith<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frost\/Nixon<\/strong>, Mike Hill &amp; Dan Hanley<\/li>\n<li><strong>Milk<\/strong>, Elliot Graham<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slumdog Millionaire<\/strong>, Chris Dickens<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Changeling<\/strong>, Tom Stern<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, Claudio Miranda<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dark Night<\/strong>, Wally Pfister<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Reader<\/strong>, Chris Menges &amp; Roger Deakins<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slumdog Millionaire<\/strong>, Anthony Dod Mantle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ART DIRECTION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Changeling<\/strong>, James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, Donald Graham Burt &amp; Victor J. Zolfo<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dark Night<\/strong>, Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Duchess<\/strong>, Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revolutionary Road<\/strong>, Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST COSTUME DESIGN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Australia<\/strong>, Catherine Martin<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, Jacqueline West<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Duchess<\/strong>, Michael O\u2019Connor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Milk<\/strong>, Danny Glicker<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revolutionary Road<\/strong>, Albert Wolsky<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST VISUAL EFFECTS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>, Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iron Man<\/strong>, John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST SOUND EDITING<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>, Richard King<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iron Man<\/strong>, Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slumdog Millionaire<\/strong>, Tom Sayers<\/li>\n<li><strong>WALL-E<\/strong>, Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wanted<\/strong>, Wylie Stateman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST SOUND MIXING<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick<\/li>\n<li><strong>Slumdog Millionaire<\/strong>, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty<\/li>\n<li><strong>WALL-E<\/strong>, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wanted<\/strong>, Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Monta\u00f1o, Petr Forejt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST MAKEUP<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/strong>, Greg Cannom<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dark Knight<\/strong>, John Caglione, Jr., Conor O\u2019Sullivan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hellboy II: The Golden Army<\/strong>, Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Conscience of Nhem En<\/strong>, Steven Okazaki<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Final Inch<\/strong>, Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant<\/li>\n<li><strong>Smile Pinki<\/strong>, Megan Mylan<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Witness &#8211; From the Balcony of Room 306<\/strong>, Adam Petofsky, Margaret Hyde<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>La Maison de Petits Cubes<\/strong>, Kunio Kato<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lavatory &#8211; Lovestory<\/strong>, Konstantin Bronzit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oktapodi<\/strong>, Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand<\/li>\n<li><strong>Presto<\/strong>, Doug Sweetland<\/li>\n<li><strong>This Way Up<\/strong>, Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Auf der Strecke (On the Line)<\/strong>, Reto Caffi<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manon on the Asphalt<\/strong>, Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Boy<\/strong>, Steph Green, Tamara Anghie<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Pig<\/strong>, Tivi Magnusson, Dorte H\u00f8gh<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spielzeugland (Toyland)<\/strong>, Jochen Alexander Freydan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscar.com\/\">Official Oscar site<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Follow more analysis at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awardsdaily.com\/\">Awards Daily<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incontention.com\/\">In Contention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscar nominations have been announced for the 81st Academy Awards. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads the field with 13 nominations, including Best Picture. Other Best Picture contenders are Frost\/Nixon, Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire. 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