81st Academy Award winners

It’s Hollywood’s biggest night, and the stars were out in full force Sunday to see who would walk away with Oscar in tow… and who would get to applaud politely while the coveted statue ended up in someone else’s grubby mitts.

After the bad jokes, failed bits and overdone production numbers, who were the big winners at the 81st Academy Awards?

Here’s the list:

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire — WINNER

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Winslet, The Reader — WINNER

Best Actor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk — WINNER
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor

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

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona – WINNER
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Director
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire – WINNER
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant, Milk

Best Foreign Language Film
The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan) — WINNER
Revanche (Austria)
Three Monkeys (Turkey)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

Best Original Screenplay
Dustin Lance Black, Milk — WINNER
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Marttin McDonagh, In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, WALL-E

Best Adapted Screenplay
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire — WINNER
David Hare, The Reader
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Animated Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E — WINNER

Best Art Direction
Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button — WINNER
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography
Changeling, Tom Stern
Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle — WINNER
The Reader, Chris Menges
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister

Best Film Editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
The Dark Knight, Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon, Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
Milk, Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens — WINNER

Best Costume Design
Australia, Catherine Martin
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Jacqueline West
The Duchess, Michael O’Conner — WINNER
Milk, Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road, Albert Wolsky

Best Documentary Feature
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire — WINNER
Trouble the Water

Best Original Song
Slumdog Millionaire, “Jai Ho,” A.R. Rahman — WINNER
Slumdog Millionaire, “O Saya,” A.R. Rahman & M.I.A.
Wall-E, “Down To Earth,” Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman

Best Original Score
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
Defiance, James Newton Howard
Milk, Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman — WINNER
WALL-E, Thomas Newman

Best Makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Colleen Callaghan, Fionagh Cush — WINNER
The Dark Knight, Peter Robb-King, John Caglione Jr.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz

Best Sound Editing
The Dark Knight, Richard King — WINNER
Iron Man, Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Sayers
Wall-E, Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted, Wylie Stateman

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — WINNER
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland) — WINNER

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
La Maison en Petits Cubes — – WINNER
Lavatory – Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki – WINNER
The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306

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