Oscar 2008: List of Nominees in Each Category


BEST PICTURE The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers Frost/Nixon (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production,Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers Milk (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers The Reader (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Nominees to be determined Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production,Christian Colson, Producer
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BEST DIRECTOR The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, David Fincher Frost/Nixon, Ron Howard Milk, Gus Van Sant The Reader, Stephen Daldry Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle

BEST ACTOR Richard Jenkins in The Visitor Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon Sean Penn in Milk Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married Angelina Jolie in Changeling Melissa Leo in Frozen River Meryl Streep in Doubt Kate Winslet in The Reader

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR\| Josh Brolin in Milk Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams in Doubt Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis in Doubt Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Frozen River – Written by Courtney Hunt Happy-Go-Lucky – Written by Mike Leigh In Bruges – Written by Martin McDonagh Milk – Written by Dustin Lance Black WALL-E – Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord Doubt – Written by John Patrick Shanley Frost/Nixon – Screenplay by Peter Morgan The Reader – Screenplay by David Hare Slumdog Millionaire – Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM The Baader Meinhof Complex – Germany The Class – France Departures- Japan Revanche – Austria Waltz with Bashir- Israel

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) – A Pandinlao Films Production, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath Encounters at the End of the World – A Creative Differences Production, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser The Garden – Scott Hamilton Kennedy Man on Wire – A Wall to Wall Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn Trouble the Water – An Elsewhere Films Production, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

ANIMATED FILM Bolt – Chris Williams and Byron Howard Kung Fu Panda – John Stevenson and Mark Osborne WALL-E – Andrew Stanton

ART DIRECTION Changeling – Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo The Dark Knight- Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando The Duchess – Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway Revolutionary Road – Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

CINEMATOGRAPHY Changeling – Tom Stern The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister The Reader – Chris Menges and Roger Deakins Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

COSTUME DESIGN Australia – Catherine Martin The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Jacqueline West The Duchess – Michael O'Connor Milk – Danny Glicker Revolutionary Road – Albert Wolsky

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT The Conscience of Nhem En – Steven Okazaki The Final Inch – Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant Smile Pinki – Megan Mylan The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306- Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

FILM EDITING The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall The Dark Knight – Lee Smith Frost/Nixon – Mike Hill and Dan Hanley Milk – Elliot Graham Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens

MAKEUP The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Greg Cannom The Dark Knight – John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan Hellboy II: The Golden Army – Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

MUSIC (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

MUSIC (SONG) Down to Earth from WALL-E – Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire – Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire – Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman andMaya Arulpragasam

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) La Maison en Petits Cubes – Kunio Kato Lavatory – Lovestory – Konstantin Bronzit Oktapodi- Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand Presto – Doug Sweetland This Way Up – Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) Auf der Strecke (On the Line) – Reto Caffi Manon on the Asphalt – Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont New Boy – Steph Green and Tamara Anghie The Pig – Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh Spielzeugland (Toyland) – Jochen Alexander Freydank

SOUND EDITING The Dark Knight – Richard King Iron Man – Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes Slumdog Millionaire – Tom Sayers WALL-E – Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood Wanted – ,Wylie Stateman

SOUND MIXING The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten The Dark Knight – Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick Slumdog Millionaire – Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty WALL-E – Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt Wanted – Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

VISUAL EFFECTS The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron The Dark Knight – Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin Iron Man – John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Oscar 2008: List of Nominees in Each Category

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