Complete list of winners for the 81st Academy Awards
Feb 22, 2009 12:00 PM
Winners of the 81st Academy Awards were announced on Feb. 22, 2009. Best Picture honors went to Slumdog Millionaire which also received seven other awards. Sean Penn and Kate Winslet took home the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress. Penelope Cruz was named Best Supporting Actress and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor went to the late Heath Ledger.
View a complete list of the 81st Academy Awards nominees.
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Sean Penn in Milk (Focus Features)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Kate Winslet in The Reader (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company)
Best animated feature film of the year
WALL-E (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton
Achievement in art direction
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
Achievement in cinematography
Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle
Achievement in costume design
The Duchess (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor
Achievement in directing
Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle
Best documentary feature
Man on Wire (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
Best documentary short subject
Smile Pinki A Principe Production, Megan Mylan
Achievement in film editing
Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens
Best foreign language film of the year
Departures (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan
Achievement in makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
Best motion picture of the year
Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer
Best animated short film
La Maison en Petits Cubes A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato
Best live action short film
Spielzeugland (Toyland) A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank
Achievement in sound editing
The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.), Richard King
Achievement in sound mixing
Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
Achievement in visual effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
Adapted screenplay
Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
Original screenplay
Milk (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black
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