Milk - The Glass Is Half Full
The list of Oscar nominations has been announced and Milk is all over it, which is very exciting, given that the film was fundamentally snubbed by the Golden Globes nominations list late last year.
Milk is in the running for eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor for Sean Penn, Best Supporting Actor for Josh Brolin, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, and Best Original Score.
Slumdog Millionaire has a swag of nominations too, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. The late Heath Ledger has been nominated as Best Actor for The Dark Knight, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, starring our own Cate Blanchett, is up for Best Picture. Baz Luhrmann’s Australia only received a nomination for Best Costume Design.
The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday 22 February at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, where they have been staged since 2002.
Here’s the full list of nominations:
Best Picture:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Actor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
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 Supporting Actor:
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Best Director:
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Best Original Screenplay:
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Marttin McDonagh, In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, WALL-E
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare, The Reader
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Foreign Language Film:
The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
Best Animated Film:
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E
Best Art Direction:
Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road
Best Cinematography:
Changeling Tom Stern
Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle
The Reader, Chris Menges
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister,
Best Film Editing:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
The Dark Knight, Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon, Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
Milk, Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens
Best Costume Design:
Australia, Catherine Martin
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Jacqueline West
The Duchess, Michael O’Conner
Milk, Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road, Albert Wolsky
Best Documentary Feature:
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
Best Original Song:
Slumdog Millionaire, Jai Ho, A.R. Rahman
Slumdog Millionaire, O Saya, A.R. Rahman & M.I.A.
Wall-E, Down To Earth, Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman
Best 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 Make Up:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Colleen Callaghan, Fionagh Cush
The Dark Knight, Peter Robb-King, John Caglione Jr.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz
Best Sound Editing:
The Dark Knight, Richard King
Iron Man, Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Sayers
Wall-E, Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted, Wylie Stateman
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