Slumdog wins 8 awards, including best director and best picture, Kate Winslet wins best actress and Sean Penn wins best actor
Movies.ie stayed up late tonight to live-blog the 2009 Academy Awards. The advantage of this is that we could report the winners of the biggest movie event of the year live as they’re announced.
The ceremony this year was hosted by actor Hugh Jackman who opened with some light humour and a musical number that referenced all of this years nominees.
You can read our live blog which happened from midnight to 5am on Oscar night here
The winners of the 81st Academy Awards are…
Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader
Best actor: Sean Penn – Milk
Also nominated: Richard Jenkins – The Visitor; Frank Langella –
Frost/Nixon; Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Mickey
Rourke – The Wrestler
Best actress: Kate Winslet – The Reader
Also nominated: Anne
Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married; Angelina Jolie – Changeling; Melissa
Leo – Frozen River; Meryl Streep – Doubt
Best director: Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Also
nominated: Stephen Daldry – The Reader; David Fincher – The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button; Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon; Gus Van Sant – Milk
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Also
nominated: Josh Brolin – Milk; Robert Downey Jr – Tropic Thunder;
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt; Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
Best supporting actress: Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Also nominated: Amy Adams – Doubt; Viola Davis – Doubt; Taraji P Henson
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Best original screenplay: Milk
Also nominated: Happy-Go-Lucky; Wall-E; In Bruges; Frozen River
Best adapted screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Doubt; Frost/Nixon; The Reader
Best animated feature film: Wall-E
Also nominated: Bolt; Kung Fu Panda
Best animated short film: La Maison en Petits Cubes
Also nominated: Lavatory – Lovestory; Oktapodi; Presto; This Way Up
Art direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated: Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Duchess; Revolutionary Road
Costume design: The Duchess
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Australia; Milk; Revolutionary Road
Make-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated: The Dark Knight; Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Reader
Best live action short film: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Also nominated: Auf der Strecke (On The Line); Manon on the Asphalt; New Boy; The Pig
Best documentary feature: Man on Wire
Also nominated: The Betrayal; Encounters at the End of the World; The Garden; Trouble The Water
Best documentary short subject: Smile Pinki
Also nominated: The Conscience of Nhem En; The Final Inch; The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306
Visual effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Also nominated: The Dark Knight; Iron Man
Sound editing: The Dark Knight
Also nominated: Iron Man; Wanted; Slumdog Millionaire; Wall-E
Sound mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Wanted; Wall-E
Film editing:Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Frost/Nixon; Milk
Best original score: Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Defiance; Milk; Slumdog Millionaire; Wall-E
Best original song: Jai Ho – Slumdog Millionaire
Also nominated: Down To Earth – Wall-E; O Saya – Slumdog Millionaire
Best foreign language film: Departures – Japan
Also nominated: Revanche – Austria; The Class – France; The Baader Meinhof Complex – Germany; Waltz With Bashir – Israel