La sfarsitul saptamanii trecute au fost facute nominalizarile pentru Premiile Oscar 2009, marea surpriza venind din partea filmului The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (“Strania poveste a lui Benjamin Button”), ce a obtinut nu mai putin de 13 nominalizari. Si castigatorul Globurilor de Aur, pelicula Slumdog Millionaire, s-a aflat printre preferintele juriului din Academia Americana de Film, aceasta clasandu-se pe locul 2 ca numar de nominalizari, in cadrul a 10 categorii.
"The Dark Knight", Lee Smith
"Frost/Nixon", Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
"Milk", Elliot Graham
"Slumdog Millionaire", Chris Dickens
Cele mai bune costume
"Australia", Catherine Martin
"The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button", Jacqueline West
"The Duchess", Michael O'Conner
"Milk", Danny Glicker
"Revolutionary Road", Albert Wolsky
Cel mai bun documentar
"The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)"
"Encounters at the End of the World"
"The Garden"
"Man on Wire"
"Trouble the Water"
Cea mai buna tema muzicala
"Slumdog Millionaire," "O Saya", A.R. Rahman & M.I.
"Wall-E", "Down To Earth", Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman
Cea mai buna coloana sonora
"The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button", Alexandre Desplat
"Defiance", James Newton Howard
"Milk", Danny Elfman
"Slumdog Millionaire", A.R. Rahman
"WALL-E", Thomas Newman
Cel mai bun machiaj
"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
Cel mai bun montaj de sunet
"The Dark Knight", Richard King
"Iron Man", Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
"Slumdog Millionaire", Tom Sayers
"Wall-E", Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
"Wanted", Wylie Stateman
Cel mai bun mixaj de sunet
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", Mark Weingarten, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce
"The Dark Knight", Ed Novick, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo
"Slumdog Millionaire", Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
