The 2009 Oscar Nominations (for 2008) announced

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Nominated for best picture are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader and Slumdog Millionaire.

Period love story Benjamin Button leads the Academy Awards with 13 nominations in total.

Rags-to-riches love story Slumdog Millionaire was second with 10 nominations and Batman blockbuster The Dark Knight scored eight.

Kate Winslet has been nominated for the best actress Oscar for her role in The Reader, while fellow Brit Danny Boyle has been shortlisted for best director for his film Slumdog Millionaire.

Heath Ledger has received a posthumous Oscar nomination for his supporting actor performance in The Dark Knight, exactly one year after dying of a drug overdose in New York.

The nominations list for the major awards is as follows:

Best picture nominees:

Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Frost/Nixon
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Reader


Best actor nominees:

Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
Sean Penn (Milk)
Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)



Best actress nominees:

Kate Winslet (The Reader)
Meryl Streep (Doubt)
Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
Melissa Leo (Frozen River)



Best supporting actor nominees:

Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Josh Brolin (Milk)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
Robert Downey Jr (Tropic Thunder)
Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road)



Best supporting actress nominees:

Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Amy Adams (Doubt)



Best director nominees:

Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Stephen Daldry (The Reader)
Gus Van Sant (Milk)
Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)



Best foreign language film of the year:

The Baader Meinhof Complex, Germany
The Class, France
Departures, Japan
Revanche, Austria
Waltz with Bashir, Israel



Best adapted screenplay:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, screenplay by Eric Roth, screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
Doubt, written by John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon, screenplay by Peter Morgan
The Reader, screenplay by David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire, screenplay by Simon Beaufoy



Original screenplay:

Frozen River, written by Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky, written by Mike Leigh
In Bruges, written by Martin McDonagh
Milk, written by Dustin Lance Black
WALL-E, screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter



Best animated feature film:

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E



Best art direction:

Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road



Best cinematography:

Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire



Best sound mixing:

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted



Best sound editing:

The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted



Best original score:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
Defiance - James Newton Howard
Milk - Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman
WALL-E - Thomas Newman



Best original song:

Down to Earth from WALL-E, music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, lyric by Peter Gabriel
Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire, music by A.R. Rahman, lyric by Gulzar
O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire, music and lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam



Best costume:

Australia
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
Revolutionary Road



Best documentary feature:

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water



Best documentary (short subject):

The Conscience of Nhem En,
The Final Inch,
Smile Pinki,
The Witness - From The Balcony Of Room 306.



Best film editing:

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire



Best makeup:

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button,
The Dark Knight,
Hellboy II: The Golden Army.



Best animated short film:

La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up



Best live action short film:

Auf Der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon On The Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)



Best visual effects:

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Nunu

Only real disappointment for me from those nominations come in the musical sections - No nomination for TDK's score (although I believe it may not be eligible for some reason?) ...but biggest ommision is in best song category for Springteens 'The Wrestler'....it should be the runaway winner for Gods sake!!

Also, why only 3 nominations in that category?

Dustaz

I should point out that New Boy is an irish short film. It won an IFTA last year and also won at Tribeca last time out.

tricky D

New Boy - Zanzibar Films

http://www.zanzibarfilms.net/short_films/new_boy.html

Also
More Wins For New Boy
November 2008 - New Boy has notched up three more wins in US Festivals.

Continued Success For New Boy
9 August 2008 - New Boy continues its successful festival run with recent wins in Melbourne and New York.

Probably will update the site later today.