81st Annual Oscar Nominations

Below are the Nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Awards. Arcaders, please feel free to comment and give us your Oscar predictions.

The Nominations are:

Best Picture:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionare

Best Director:
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionare
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best Actor:
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best Actress:
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Supporting Actor:
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress:
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best Animated Feature Film:
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Foreign Film:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Best Original Screenplay:
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Courtney Hunt - Frozen River
Mike Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin McDonagh - In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter - WALL-E

Best Adapted Screenplay:
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 Documentary Feature:
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

Best Original Score:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Defiance
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

Best Original Song:
"Down to Earth" - WALL-E
"Jai Ho" - Slumdog Millionaire
"O Saya" - Slumdog Millionaire

Best Film 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

Best Documentary - Short Subject:
The Conscience of Nhem En - Steven Okazaki
The Final Inch - Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant
Smile Pinki - Megan Mylan
The Witness -From the Balcony of Room 306 - Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde

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 Millionaire

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

Best Sound Editing:
Richard King - The Dark Knight
Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes - Iron Man
Tom Sayers - Slumdog Millionaire
Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood - WALL-E
Wylie Stateman - Wanted

Best Live Action Short Film:
Auf der Strecke (On the Line) - Reto Caffi
Manon on the Asphalt - Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
New Boy - Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
The Pig - Tivi Magnusson, Dorte Høgh
Spielzeugland (Toyland) - Jochen Alexander Freydank

Best Animated Short Film:
La Maison de Petits Cubes - Kunio Kato
Lavatory-Lovestory - Konstantin Bronzit
Oktapodi - Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
Presto - Doug Sweetland
This Way Up - Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes

Best Makeup:
Greg Cannom - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Caglione, Jr., Conor O'Sullivan - The Dark Knight
Mike Elizalde, Thom Flout - Hellboy II: The Golden Army

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