Well, the 2009 Oscar Nominees are out. The complete list is below with my predictions for each one marked with a *.
Although I wanted Dark Knight to get a best picture nomination, I'm not surprised that it didn't.
BEST PICTURE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
*Slumdog Millionaire
BEST DIRECTOR
*Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
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
*Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
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 , Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh
In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
*Milk, Dustin Lance Black
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan
The Reader, David Hare
*Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
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 COSTUME DESIGN
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
*The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306
BEST EDITING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
*Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
*The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
*Spielzeugland (Toyland)
BEST MAKEUP
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
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,'' (WALL-E)
''Jai Ho,'' (Slumdog Millionaire)
*''O Saya,'' (Slumdog Millionaire)
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 VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*The Dark Knight
Iron Man
SOURCE: EW Online
