Nomination Categories

• Picture
• Director
• Actor
• Actress
• Supporting Actor
• Supporting Actress
• Original Screenplay
• Adapted Screenplay
• Documentary
• Foreign Language (Non-English) Film
• Animated Feature
• Cinematography
• Original Score
• Editing
• Breakthrough Performance

Best Picture

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL-E
• The Wrestler

Best Director

• Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
• Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
• David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
• Andrew Stanton, WALL-E

Best Actor

• Benicio Del Toro, Che
• Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
• Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn, Milk
• Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress

• Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
• Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
• Meryl Streep, Doubt
• Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
• Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
• Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
• Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
• Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams, Doubt
• Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis, Doubt
• Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
• Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Original Screenplay

• In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
• Milk, Dustin Lance Black
• Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman
• WALL-E, Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon
• The Wrestler, Robert D. Siegel

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth
• The Dark Knight, Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
• Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan
• Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist
• Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy

Best Documentary

• Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father
• Encounters at the End of the World
• I.O.U.S.A.
• Man On Wire
• My Winnipeg

Best Foreign Language (Non-English) Film

• A Christmas Tale
• The Counterfeiters
• I've Loved You So Long
• Let the Right One In
• Waltz with Bashir

Best Animated Feature

• Bolt
• Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who
• Kung Fu Panda
• WALL-E
• Waltz with Bashir

Best Cinematography

• Che, Peter Andrews
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Claudio Miranda
• The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister
• The Fall, Colin Watkinson
• Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Original Score

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
• The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer
• Milk, Danny Elfman
• Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman
• WALL-E, Thomas Newman

Best Editing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall
• The Dark Knight, Lee Smith
• Milk, Elliot Graham
• Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens
• WALL-E, Stephen Schaffer

Breakthrough Performance

• Russell Brand, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Kå Hedebrant, Let the Right One In
• Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In
• Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
• Brandon Walters, Australia

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