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Three of the five best documentary nominees premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival - Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath’s “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon),” James Marsh’s “Man on Wire,” and Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s “Trouble The Water” - as did double nominee “Frozen River” (nominated for best actress and best original screenplay) and “In Bruges” (best original screenplay). Among the docs that failed to make it past November’s fifteen-long shortlist were “Pray The Devil Back To Hell” and “Standard Operating Procedure.”
Nine of the twenty acting nominees are first-timers (including veteran actors like Richard Jenkins and Frank Langella), while five are previous winners (Meryl Streep, Marisa Tomei, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sean Penn and Angelina Jolie). “Revolutionary Road”‘s Michael Shannon was the only acting nominee to not receive a nomination from any of the major precursors.
The complete list of nominations:
MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Cean Chaffin)
“Frost/Nixon” (Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Eric Fellner)
“Milk” (Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen)
“The Reader” (nominees to be determined)
“Slumdog Millionaire” (Christian Colson)
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
David Fincher, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Ron Howard, “Frost/Nixon”
Stephen Daldry, “The Reader”
Gus Van Sant, “Milk”
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married”
Angelina Jolie, “Changeling”
Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Meryl Streep, “Doubt”
Kate Winslet, “The Reader”
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor”
Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”
Sean Penn, “Milk”
Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams, “Doubt”
Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Viola Davis, “Doubt”
Taraji P. Hensen, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Marisa Tomei, “The Wrestler”
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Josh Brolin, “Milk”
Robert Downey Jr, “Tropic Thunder”
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, “Doubt”
Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary Road”
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Courtney Hunt, “Frozen River”
Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Martin McDonough, “In Bruges”
Dustin Lance Black, “Milk”
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docte, “Wall-E”
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Eric Roth, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
John Patrick Shanley, “Doubt”
Peter Morgan, “Frost/Nixon”
David Hare, “The Reader”
Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire”
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
“Bolt” (Chris Williams and Byron Howard)
“Kung Fu Panda” (John Stevenson and Mark Osborne)
“WALL-E” (Andrew Stanton)
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“The Baader Meinhof Complex” (Germany)
“The Class” (France)
“Departures” (Japan)
“Revanche” (Austria)
“Waltz With Bashir” (Israel)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath)
“Encounters at the End of the World” (Werner Herzog)
“The Garden” (Scott Hamilton Kennedy)
“Man on Wire” (James Marsh)
“Trouble the Water” (Tia Lessin, Carl Deal)
ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Down To Earth” (WALL-E)
“Jai Ho” (Slumdog Millionaire)
“O Saya” (Slumdog Millionaire)
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
ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
“The Dark Knight,” Lee Smith
“Frost/Nixon,” Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
“Milk,” Elliot Graham
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Chris Dickens
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Changeling,” Tom Stern
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Claudio Miranda
“The Dark Knight,” Wally Pfister
“The Reader,” Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Anthony Dod Mantle
ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
“Changeling,” James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
“The Dark Knight,” Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
“The Duchess,” Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
“Revolutionary Road,” Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
“Australia,” Catherine Martin
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Jacqueline West
“The Duchess,” Michael O’Connor
“Milk,” Danny Glicker
“Revolutionary Road,” Albert Wolsky
ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
“The Dark Knight,” Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin
“Iron Man,” John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan
ACHIEVEMENT IN 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
ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
“The Dark Knight,” Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty
“WALL-E,” Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
“Wanted,” Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt
ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Greg Cannom
“The Dark Knight, John Caglione, Jr., Conor O’Sullivan
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz
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 Petofsky, Margaret Hyde
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
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 Freydan
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