Nominees & Winners for the 81st Academy Awards®

(This list does not include Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects)

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Australia

20th Century Fox/Bazmark Film 2 Pty Ltd Production (20th Century Fox)

  • Costume design

The Baader Meinhof Complex

Constantin Film Production

  • Best foreign language film (Germany)

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)

Pandinlao Films Production (Cinema Guild)

  • Documentary feature

Bolt

Walt Disney Pictures Production (Walt Disney)

  • Best animated feature film

Changeling

Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment Production (Universal)

  • Angelina Jolie - Performance by an actress in a leading role
  • Art direction
  • Cinematography

The Class

Haut et Court Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

  • Best foreign language film (France)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Kennedy/Marshall Production (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  • Brad Pitt - Performance by an actor in a leading role
  • Taraji P. Henson - Performance by an actress in a supporting role
  • Art direction
  • Cinematography
  • Costume design
  • Directing
  • Film editing
  • Makeup
  • Original score
  • Best picture
  • Sound mixing
  • Visual effects
  • Adapted screenplay

The Dark Knight

Cape Road Limited Production (Warner Bros.)

  • Heath Ledger - Performance by an actor in a supporting role
  • Art direction
  • Cinematography
  • Film editing
  • Makeup
  • Sound editing
  • Sound mixing
  • Visual effects

Defiance

Grosvenor Park/Bedford Falls Production (Paramount Vantage)

  • Original score

Departures

Departures Film Partners Production (Regent Releasing)

  • Best foreign language film (Japan)

Doubt

Scott Rudin Production (Miramax)

  • Philip Seymour Hoffman - Performance by an actor in a supporting role
  • Meryl Streep - Performance by an actress in a leading role
  • Amy Adams - Performance by an actress in a supporting role
  • Viola Davis - Performance by an actress in a supporting role
  • Adapted screenplay

The Duchess

Qwerty Films/Magnolia Mae Films in association with Pathé Renn and BIM Distribuzione Production (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films)

  • Art direction
  • Costume design

Encounters at the End of the World

Creative Differences Production (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment)

  • Documentary feature

Frost/Nixon

Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production (Universal)

  • Frank Langella - Performance by an actor in a leading role
  • Directing
  • Film editing
  • Best picture
  • Adapted screenplay

Frozen River

Harwood Hunt Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

  • Melissa Leo - Performance by an actress in a leading role
  • Original screenplay

The Garden

Black Valley Films Production

  • Documentary feature

Happy-Go-Lucky

Thin Man Films/Simon Channing Williams Production (Miramax)

  • Original screenplay

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Universal Pictures Production (Universal)

  • Makeup

In Bruges

Blueprint Pictures Production (Focus Features)

  • Original screenplay

Iron Man

Marvel Studios Production (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment)

  • Sound editing
  • Visual effects

Kung Fu Panda

DreamWorks Animation LLC Production (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount)

  • Best animated feature film

Man on Wire

A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production (Magnolia Pictures)

  • Documentary feature

Milk

Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production (Focus Features)

  • Sean Penn - Performance by an actor in a leading role
  • Josh Brolin - Performance by an actor in a supporting role
  • Costume design
  • Directing
  • Film editing
  • Original score
  • Best picture
  • Original screenplay

Rachel Getting Married

Clinica Estetico Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

  • Anne Hathaway - Performance by an actress in a leading role

The Reader

Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production (The Weinstein Company)

  • Kate Winslet - Performance by an actress in a leading role
  • Cinematography
  • Directing
  • Best picture
  • Adapted screenplay

Revanche

Prisma Film/Fernseh Production (Janus Films)

  • Best foreign language film (Austria)

Revolutionary Road

Evamere Entertainment, BBC Films and Neal Street Production (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

  • Michael Shannon - Performance by an actor in a supporting role
  • Art direction
  • Costume design

Slumdog Millionaire

Celador Films Production (Fox Searchlight)

  • Cinematography
  • Directing
  • Film editing
  • Original score
  • Original song - “Jai Ho”
  • Original song - “O Saya”
  • Best picture
  • Sound editing
  • Sound mixing
  • Adapted screenplay

Tropic Thunder

Red Hour Production (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/ Paramount)

  • Robert Downey Jr. - Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Trouble the Water

Elsewhere Films Production (Zeitgeist Films)

  • Documentary feature

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Weinstein Company Production (The Weinstein Company)

  • Penélope Cruz - Performance by an actress in a supporting role

The Visitor

Groundswell, Participant, Next Wednesday Production (Overture Films)

  • Richard Jenkins - Performance by an actor in a leading role

WALL-E

Pixar Animation Studios Production (Walt Disney)

  • Best animated feature film
  • Original score
  • Original song - “Down to Earth”
  • Sound editing
  • Sound mixing
  • Original screenplay

Waltz with Bashir

Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

  • Best foreign language film (Israel)

Wanted

Universal Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment Production (Universal)

  • Sound editing
  • Sound mixing

The Wrestler

Protozoa Pictures/Wild Bunch Production (Fox Searchlight)

  • Mickey Rourke - Performance by an actor in a leading role
  • Marisa Tomei - Performance by an actress in a supporting role

  • Star indicates a win.