The Complete Oscar Quest: 81st Academy Awards (2008)
2008
Best Picture
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Frost/Nixon
- Milk
- The Reader
- Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director
- Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
- Stephen Daldry, The Reader
- David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
- Gus Van Sant, Milk
Best Actor
- Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
- Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
- Sean Penn, Milk
- Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress
- Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
- Angelina Jolie, Changeling
- Melissa Leo, Frozen River
- Meryl Streep, Doubt
- Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Supporting Actor
- Josh Brolin, Milk
- Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
- Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
- Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress
- Amy Adams, Doubt
- Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Viola Davis, Doubt
- Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Original Screenplay
- Frozen River
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- In Bruges
- Milk
- Wall-E
Best Adapted Screenplay
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Doubt
- Frost/Nixon
- The Reader
- Slumdog Millionaire
Best Editing
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- Frost/Nixon
- Milk
- Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematography
- Changeling
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- The Reader
- Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Score
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Defiance
- Milk
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Wall-E
Best Original Song
- “Down to Earth,” from Wall-E
- “Jai Ho,” from Slumdog Millionaire
- “O Saya,” from Slumdog Millionaire
Best Art Direction
- Changeling
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- The Duchess
- Revolutionary Road
Best Costume Design
- Australia
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Duchess
- Milk
- Revolutionary Road
Best Makeup
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Best Visual Effects
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- Iron Man
Best Sound Editing
- The Dark Knight
- Iron Man
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Wall-E
- Wanted
Best Sound Mixing
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Wall-E
- Wanted
Best Animated Feature
- Bolt
- Kung Fu Panda
- Wall-E
Best Foreign Language Film
- The Baader Meinhof Complex
- The Class
- Departures
- Revanche
- Waltz with Bashir
Best Documentary
- The Betrayal
- Encounters at the End of the World
- The Garden
- Man on Wire
- Trouble the Water
Best Documentary Short
- The Conscience of Nhem En
- The Final Inch
- Smile Pinki
- The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306
Best Live-Action Short
- Manon on the Asphalt
- New Boy
- On the Line
- The Pig
- Toyland
Best Animated Short
- Lavatory
- La Maison en Petits Cubes
- Oktapodi
- Presto
- This Way Up
Total List of Films Nominated:
- Australia
- Bolt
- Changeling
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- Defiance
- Doubt
- The Duchess
- Frost/Nixon
- Frozen River
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- In Bruges
- Iron Man
- Kung Fu Panda
- Milk
- Rachel Getting Married
- The Reader
- Revolutionary Road
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Tropic Thunder
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- The Visitor
- Wall-E
- Wanted
- The Wrestler
– – – – – – – – – –
– – – – – – – – – –