And The Nominees Are......

Best Picture
* 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
* 'Frost/Nixon'
* 'Milk'
* 'The Reader'
* 'Slumdog Millionaire'

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 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
* Javier Bardem, 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'
* Colin Farrell, 'In Bruges'
* James Franco, 'Pineapple Express'
* Brendan Gleeson, 'In Bruges'
* Dustin Hoffman, 'Last Chance Harvey'

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'

Achievement 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'

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