Best Actress:
WINNER:
Kate Winslet - The Reader
NOMINEES:
Sean Penn Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Melissa Leo - Frozen River

Best Actor:
WINNER:
Sean Penn - Milk
NOMINEES:
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Best Supporting Actor:
WINNER:
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
NOMINEES:
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress:
WINNER:
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
NOMINEES:
Amy Adams - Doubt
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best Film:
WINNER:
Slumdog Millionaire
NOMINEES:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader

Best Director:
WINNER:
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
NOMINEES:
Gus Van Sant - Milk
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case Of Benjamin ButtonPenelope Cruz
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon

Best Original Screenplay:
WINNER:
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
NOMINEES:
Courtney Hunt - Frozen River
Mike Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh - In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter - Wall-E

Best Adapted Screenplay:
WINNER:
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
NOMINEES:
Eric Roth and Robin Swicord - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
David Hare - The Reader

Best Animated Feature:
WINNER:
Wall-E
NOMINEES:
Brad Pitt Kung Fu Panda
Bolt

Best Animated Short Film:
WINNER:
La Maison De Petits Cubes - Kunio Kato
NOMINEES:
Lavatory Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto - Doug Sweetland
This Way Up

Achievement In Costume Design:
WINNER:
The Duchess - Michael O'Connor
NOMINEES:
Australia - Catherine Martin
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - Jacqueline West\Danny Boyle
Milk - Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road - Albert Wolsky

Achievement In Make-Up:
WINNER:
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - Greg Cannom
NOMINEES:
The Dark Knight - John Caglione Jr, Conor O'Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz

Achievement In Cinematography:
WINNER:
Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle
NOMINEES:
Heath Ledger Changeling - Tom Stern
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight - Wally Pfister
The Reader - Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

Best Live Action Short Film:
WINNER:
Spielzeugland
NOMINEES:
Auf Der Strecke
Manon On The Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig

Achievement In Music (Original Song):
WINNER:
Slumdog Millionaire - Jai Ho by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar
NOMINEES:
Wall-E - Down To Earth by Peter Garbriel and Thomas Newman
Slumdog Millionaire - O Saya by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragsam

Best Foreign Language Film:
WINNER:
Departures
NOMINEES:
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
The Class
Revanche
Waltz With Bashir.

Good for Penn.

Did he show?

Is Slumdog that good?

Slumdog Millionaire is an awesome movie. Definitely worth checking out.  I'm glad they won.

Yeah, he died before the cutoff for last year.

This was the first time in 6 years I didn't watch. All of my favorite movies this year weren't the type to get major nominations. Once Richard Jenkins was nominated, I was happy enough. Glad to see Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz win, even though they both deserved it two years ago, and Winslet was outperformed by both Hathaway and Streep this year. My only wish was that Rebecca Hall and Gary Oldman got more recognition than they did.

I'm a little irritated with Slumdog's win.  I don't get the hype over this one. A good movie, but in no way great.  Out of that crop The Reader deserved best picture. 

And I'm with Matty, Let the Right One In was amazing.  My only guess is that because it's a horror film it wasn't nominated. 

Well, I guess it comes to personal preference. I think Slumdog was worst of the bunch. Everything about it was massively predicable and there were no surprises throughout.  Plus, I just hate movies where everthing is wrapped up in a happy little package at the end.  I like those that leave you to reflect on the events and relate to them. The Reader was that type. Plus they did an amazing job of taking a morally wrong character (i.e. a nazi) and making you care about her. 

But overall it was a weak crop of movies.  I think The Dark Knight and Revolutionary Road were the best of last year and deserved nominations over most of the other films. 

Yeah, Slumdog wasn't really Boyle-esque, and it was a bit too feel-good, but given the competition it was up against, it was sort of the easy pick.

Milk seemed too concise to me--I never really got a feel for why Dan White would want to kill Milk. I know that the real events are pretty much without explanation, but the assassination scene seemed abrupt and didn't connect like it should have.

Frost/Nixon didn't really matter in the same way that Slumdog or Milk did, but it was entertaining, if not a little bit clinical.

Benjamin Button was an outright disaster--too long, too trite, and required so many logic jumps (like how would his bones expand from baby-sized and then shrink back without him having severe medical problems which would recquire him to explain his predicament to a doctor), and was about an hour too long.

The Reader didn't make me care for Kate Winslet, it made me mad that they tried to pass the buck on the complacency over the holocaust away from regular Germans. She acted well, but she was better as the desperate housewife in Revolutionary Road.