OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2008-09
BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Nominees:
Richard Jenkins for The Visitor (2007/I)
Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon (2008)
Sean Penn for Milk (2008)
Brad Pitt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler (2008)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Nominees:
Anne Hathaway for Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Angelina Jolie for Changeling (2008)
Melissa Leo for Frozen River (2008)
Meryl Streep for Doubt (2008/I)
Kate Winslet for The Reader (2008)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominees:
Josh Brolin for Milk (2008)
Robert Downey Jr. for Tropic Thunder (2008)
Philip Seymour Hoffman for Doubt (2008/I)
Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight (2008)
Michael Shannon for Revolutionary Road (2008)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominees:
Amy Adams for Doubt (2008/I)
Pen'©lope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Viola Davis for Doubt (2008/I)
Taraji P. Henson for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Marisa Tomei for The Wrestler (2008)
Best Achievement in Directing
Nominees:
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Stephen Daldry for The Reader (2008)
David Fincher for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon (2008)
Gus Van Sant for Milk (2008)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Nominees:
Frozen River (2008): Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008): Mike Leigh
In Bruges (2008): Martin McDonagh
Milk (2008): Dustin Lance Black
WALL·E (2008): Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
Doubt (2008/I): John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon (2008): Peter Morgan
The Reader (2008): David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Simon Beaufoy
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Nominees:
Changeling (2008): Tom Stern
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight (2008): Wally Pfister
The Reader (2008): Roger Deakins, Chris Menges
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Anthony Dod Mantle
Best Achievement in Editing
Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
The Dark Knight (2008): Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon (2008): Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
Milk (2008): Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): Chris Dickens
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Nominees:
Changeling (2008): James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
The Dark Knight (2008): Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
The Duchess (2008): Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
Revolutionary Road (2008): Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Nominees:
Australia (2008): Catherine Martin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Jacqueline West
The Duchess (2008): Michael O’Connor
Milk (2008): Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road (2008): Albert Wolsky
Best Achievement in Makeup
Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Greg Cannom
The Dark Knight (2008)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Alexandre Desplat
Defiance (2008): James Newton Howard
Milk (2008): Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman
WALL·E (2008): Thomas Newman
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Nominees:
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman, Gulzar(”Jai Ho”)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008): A.R. Rahman, M.I.A(”O Saya”)
WALL·E (2008): Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman(”Down to Earth”)
Best Achievement in Sound
Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Dark Knight (2008): Ed Novick, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
WALL·E (2008)
Wanted (2008)
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Nominees:
The Dark Knight (2008)
Iron Man (2008)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
WALL·E (2008)
Wanted (2008)
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008): Eric Barba, Edson Williams
The Dark Knight (2008): Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, Paul J. Franklin
Iron Man (2008)
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Nominees:
Bolt (2008)
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
WALL·E (2008)
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Nominees:
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)(Germany)
Entre les murs (2008)(France)
Revanche (2008)(Austria)
Okuribito (2008)(Japan)
Vals Im Bashir (2008)(Israel)
Best doucmentary Feature
Nominees:
The Betrayal – Nerakhoon (2008)
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
The Garden (2008/I)
Man on Wire (2008)
Trouble the Water (2008)
Were you disappointed? content? what do You think of the list, let us know
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
10 nominations for Slumdog!!! Rahman got 3 nominations. Slumdog got nominated for sound mixing and sound editing. So does that make 5 nominations for Rahman??
Just hope that the Academy does not get swayed this year, like they did with Titanic.
Angelina Jolie as Best Actress?? WTF??
And not a single nomination for Gran Torino??
@Neeraj
It’s 3 Nominations for ARR and 1 nomination each for Gulzarsaab,Resul Pookutty, Maya Arulpragasam !!!
GK
I completely agree Ratnakar.
No Gran Torino. And No TDK in the direction category. No sign of Revolutionary Road at all. Ye Kya Ho Raha Hai???
Very happy to see ‘Indian’ names in the list…and more happy to see them competing with the best!! And, if we win…then the BEST would be yet to come…WOW!!! The nominations are itself a landmark for Indian Cinema….and the critics of Indian Cinema would be silenced for long….
*Anurag Kashyap had already predicted that Rahman would be nominated for Oscars long before ppl knew abt SM….He’s got the eye baaaaap…natak nahi chalega ;)…hahahaha…
Oops…got a little carried away…its a British film right? nonetheless…Indian names hi sahi…
Kate Winslet not nom for Reservation Road?
Frost/Nixon for Best Picture? its quite an average film. TDK would have been far better contender than Frost/Nixon. And The Reader … when will academy get over this holocaust fever? Even Benjamin Button…good but definitely not as good as to get 13 noms. A very disappointing oscars for me.
IMO, Best cinematography last year was in Tarsem’s Fall(Colin Watkinson)…and Best costume Design (Eiko Ishioka)….very underrated…hmmphh…
Things great about 2009
SDM with 10 nominations.
SDM will win guys. Start celebrating. This will be the first film in the History of Oscars to win Best Picture with not a single Caucasian Hollywood Star.
What a year it is. First Hussein OBama, now Rahman.
Rahman will win for sure. Start dancing.
Thinks that delighted me about Nominations.
Richard Jenkins for THE VISITOR
I’m a huge huge fan of Jenkins. Watch SIX FEET UNDER.
MELISSA LEO for FROZEN RIVER
Another super indie film & a great nomination.
Looks like Kate lost out because Golden Globes overdid it to her.
I’m Glad they ignored revolutionary Road. They have lavished Sam Mendez with Oscars for a better version of the same movie a decade ago.
SDM will win around 5 OSCARS I feel.
JAI HO!
Benjamin for 13 nominations?
I think it deserves only Make-Up.
Anjelina Jolie for CHANGELING?
Really? REALLY? No Really????????
Glad to see so many nominations for SDM. Hopeful to win atleast 4.
Honestly i didn’t see anything great in Revolutionary Road where the story is straight from the 80s. Nonetheless, K Winslet did a great job.
Shocked to see Gran Torino has been overlooked.
Best Original Screenplay, my choice would be to In Bruges or Wall-E.
let’s hope ARR wins atleast one.Two would be great.
Academy Awards®-Nominated Great Films That Didn’t Win a Single Oscar®
(Number of Nominations Received in Parentheses)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (7)
Das Boot (1982) (6)
Broadcast News (1987) (7)
The Caine Mutiny (1954) (7)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) (6)
The Color Purple (1985) (11)
Double Indemnity (1944) (7)
The Elephant Man (1980) (8)
Empire of the Sun (1987) (6)
Fatal Attraction (1987) (6)
Foreign Correspondent (1940) (6)
Friendly Persuasion (1956) (6)
Gangs of New York (2002) (10)
The Godfather, Part III (1990) (7)
Good Night, and Good Luck (6)
Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) (7)
Lenny (1974) (6)
The Little Foxes (1941) (9)
The Long Voyage Home (1940) (6)
Love Affair (1939) (6)
The Love Parade (1930) (6)
Madame Curie (1943) (7)
My Man Godfrey (1936) (6)
The Nun’s Story (1959) (8)
The Prince of Tides (1991) (7)
Quo Vadis (1951) (8)
Ragtime (1981) (8)
Random Harvest (1942) (7)
The Remains of the Day (1993) (8)
Seabiscuit (2003) (7)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (7)
A Star Is Born (1954) (6)
The Talk of the Town (1942) (7)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) (6)
GK
Bravo!! Danny and Rahman.
mainak, u r right. Slumdog will be the first winner with no Caucasian hollywood actors.
It will win Best picture, director, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, original score and most probably original song for O Saya.
Time to celebrate.
So, there are just 3 Nominees for the ‘Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song’ ???
And Rahman gets 2 out of 3 nominations, the song from ‘The Wrestler’ NOT included?!
So, Rahman does stand a bright chance of 2 Oscars!
Frost/Nixon was just an average pick, so I really dont understand what its doing in best picture category. Revolutionary road totally deserved to be here.I will probably watched Reader tonight, I have heard quite a bit about this movie. I haven’t watched Richard Jenkins in the Visitor,,, so no clue as to how good a performance it is.
I am surprised that there’s no mention of kate Winslet for Rev Road, which I thought was marvellous – but may be she’ll end up with an award for Reader.no gran torino??
Sucks, that I dont see any major awards for Dark Knight, except of course HEATH LEDGER( there’s no way, Joker will not win this one, May he R.I.P)
Well, great going for SLUMDOG and CONGRATS to RAHMAN, may he win in both categories.
OST and SONG.
Please God, no best picture or director win for SDM. It can win all the other nominations. But there are much more deserving pictures and directors. SDM is a good entertaining movie but way overrated.
BTW, how can Doubt get all those acting nominations and no best picture or director nomination? Did the cast direct itself?
what is so surprising is that kate didn’t get a single nomination for revolutionary road…must be one of the very best films of the year…the film itself sam mendes also missed out…it’s very unfortunate…
Hmmm… One assumes that the Holocaust fixation will go away only when the existing members of the Academy who lived through the World War 2 era leave this world for their heavenly abode.
Pointer for Oscar craving hindi film directors – In your next film, include a Holocaust angle or at least potray the Nazis as bad men.
P.S. – The above is in pure jest.
No dark knight for best picture/best director/best screenplay???
of all the idiocy the academy has done throughout its history (remember Titanic?) this is certainly the worst.
What a bunch of stuffed shirts :X :X
Amidst all the hype & hoopla surrounding around Slumdog Millionaire, there is one more humble entry in the Oscar nominations with an Indian angle for the category – Best Short Documentary category – for Smile Pinki about a child born with cleff lips. Interestingly the director in this case too is a foreinger – Brazil based Megan Mylan an Emmy awards winner
Cheers & kudos to the makers of the documentary. Here are some news & info.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Docu_on_Mirzapur_girl_at_Oscars_too/articleshow/4023962.cms
http://www.documentary.org/content/meet-filmmakers-megan-mylan-smile-pinki
Congratulations to the SDM team. This one is definitely going to sweep the Oscars this year.