2009 Oscar Nominations

Best Picture
   ✔ Slumdog Millionaire - winner
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
   ✔ Frost/Nixon
   ✔ Milk
    The Reader

Best Actor
   ✔ Sean Penn – Milk - winner
    Richard Jenkins – The Visitor as Walter Vale
   ✔ Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon
    Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
    Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Randy "The Ram" Robinson

Actress
    Kate Winslet – The Reader as Hanna Schmitz - winner
    Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym Buchman
    Angelina Jolie – Changeling as Christine Collins
    Melissa Leo – Frozen River as Ray Eddy
    Meryl Streep – Doubt as Sister Aloysius Beauvier

Best Supporting Actor
    Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as The Joker - winner (posthumous award[A])
   ✔ Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan White
   ✔ Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus
    Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Father Brendan Flynn
    Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road as John Givings Jr.

Best Supporting Actress
    Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as María Elena - winner
    Amy Adams – Doubt as Sister James
    Viola Davis – Doubt as Mrs. Miller
    Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Queenie
    Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Cassidy/Pam

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
   ✔ Milk – Dustin Lance Black - winner
    Frozen River – Courtney Hunt
    Happy-Go-Lucky – Mike Leigh
   ✔ In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
   ✔ WALL-E – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
   ✔ Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy; based on the novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup - winner
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth and Robin Swicord; short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Doubt – John Patrick Shanley; based on his play
   ✔ Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan; based on his stage play
    The Reader – David Hare; based on the novel Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink

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