Heath Ledger gets Oscar nomination – Plus other categories revealed
It’s Oscar day, and after months of speculating, the 2009 Academy Award nominations have finally been made public.
Academy president Sid Ganis and Oscar winning actor Forest Whitaker unveiled the nominations at 1.30pm Irish time during a news conference in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world gathered.
There were two nods for Irish film, Martin McDonagh is nominated in the best screenplay category for In Bruges, while Irish production company Zanzibar films are nominated for best live action short for ‘New Boy’.
And the nominees are…
Best Picture Nominations
(1) Slumdog Millionaire
(2) Frost Nixon
(3) The Curious Incident Of Benjamin Button
(4) The Reader
(5) Milk
Best Director Nominations
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 Nominations
The Visitor – Richard Jenkins
Frost/Nixon – Frank Langella
Milk – Sean Penn
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Brad Pitt
The Wrestler – Mickey Rourke
Best Actress Nominations
Rachel Getting Married – Anne Hathaway
Changeling – Angelina Jolie
Frozen River – Melissa Leo
Doubt – Meryl Streep
The Reader – Kate Winslet
Best Supporting Actor
Milk – Josh Brolin
Tropic Thunder – Robert Downey Jr.
Doubt – Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Dark Knight – Heath Ledger
Revolutionary Road – Michael Shannon
Best Supporting Actress
Doubt – Amy Adams
Vicky Cristina Barcelona – Penélope Cruz
Doubt – Viola Davis
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Taraji P. Henson
The Wrestler – Marisa Tomei
Best Foreign Language Movie
The Baader Meinhof Complex – Germany
The Class – France
Departures – Japan
Revanche – Austria
Waltz with Bashir – Israel
Acheivement In Music (Original 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
Best Screenplay
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon, Wall-E
Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
David Hare, The Reader
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Art Direction
James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis, Changeling
Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando, The Dark Knight
Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway, The Duchess
Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt, Revolutionary Road
Best Cinematography
Tom Stern, Changeling
Claudio Miranda, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Chris Menges, Roger Deakins, The Reader
Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionarie
Best Live Action Short
Auf der Strecke (On the Line) – Hamburg Shortfilmagency
Manon on the Asphalt – La Luna Productions
New Boy – Network Ireland Television, A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
The Pig – An M & M Production
Spielzeugland (Toyland) – A Mephisto Film Production
Best Costume Design
Catherine Martin, Australia
Jacqueline West, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Michael O’Connor, The Duchess
Danny Glicker, Milk
Albert Wolsky, Revolutionary Road
Best Documentary
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
Best Documentary – Short Feature
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306
Best Editing
Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Lee Smith, The Dark Knight
Mike Hill, Dan Hanley, Frost/Nixon
Elliot Graham, Milk
Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire
We will bring you news items and coverage of the Oscars during the build up to the ceremony on Feb 22nd, stay tuned.