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The Oscars ceremony was held again at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood last Sunday, February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, which started at exactly at 5PT/8ET. Hosted by none other than Hugh Jackman and televised live on ABC. Together with Beyonce Knowles, Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Amanda Seyfield , Dominic Cooper on there Musical Performance Mama Mia Stage Skit Medley Broadway.

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Complete list of nominees for this year's 81st Academy Awards 2009 - The Oscars Ceremony. Awarding of nominations/nominees will be live on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. You may watch via ABC in the Unites States.


Best Actress / Female Performance in a Leading Role
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor / Male Performance in a Leading Role
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Sean Penn - Milk

Best Supporting Actress / Female Performance in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams - Doubt
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Viola Davis - Doubt

Best Supporting Actor / Male Performance in a Supporting Role
Josh Brolin - Milk
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder


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

Best Director / Achievement in Directing
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best Foreign Language Film
Waltz With Bashir - Israel
Revanche - Austria
The Class - France
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex - Germany
Departures - Japan

Best Adapted Screenplay
Doubt - John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth, Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
The Reader - David Hare

Best Original Screenplay
Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
Milk - Dustin Lance Black
WALL-E - Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

Best Cinematography
Changeling - Tom Stern
Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight - Wally Pfister
The Reader - Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

Best Editing
Frost/Nixon - Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
Milk - Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
The Dark Knight - Lee Smith

Best Original Score
Defiance - James Newton Howard
Milk - Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
WALL-E - Thomas Newman

Best Art Direction / Achievement in Art Direction
Changeling
Revolutionary Road
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess

Best 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

Best Original Song
Down to Earth from WALL-E - Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman
Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Gulzar
O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam

Best Animated Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Documentary
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World

Best Makeup / Achievement in Make-Up
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

Best Short Animation / Animated Short
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory - Lovestory

Best Live Action Short
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Auf der Strecke
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy

Best Sound Editing / Achievement in Sound
Slumdog Millionaire - Tom Sayers
Iron Man - Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
The Dark Knight - Richard King
WALL-E - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted - Wylie Stateman

Best Visual Effects
The Dark Knight - Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
Iron Man - John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan


The acting categories are always hotly contested and this year is no different. Both in the actors and actresses categories, no one has emerged as the clear favorite this year. Not only because of their equally good performances but also because the different award giving organizations have proclaimed different winners in the past month or so. But expect the names of Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie to be read from the 2009 Oscar nominations list later today. The same goes for Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke. I am also expecting a nomination for Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight.

Watch The 81st Annual Academy Awards Ceremony Live on Sunday, February 22, 2009, 5 pm , at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It will be televised in the United States on ABC. Oscars ceremony is the 81st Annual Academy Awards ceremony will honor its selection of the best films of 2008. The Oscars, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences itself, were conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss, Louis B. Mayer. The awards are presented is one of the most prominent film award ceremonies in the world.

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Academy Awards are given for best motion picture; foreign-language film; performances by male and female actors in both leading and supporting roles; achievement in direction; screenplays, both original and adapted from previously produced or published material; and scores and songs composed for films. Other award categories include live-action short subject, animated short subject, documentary feature, and documentary short feature. Excellence in technical disciplines is also recognized, including art direction, cinematography, costume design, makeup, film editing, sound and sound effects editing, and visual effects. In addition, special or honorary awards are given for distinguished careers or humanitarian achievement.

prizes given annually in the United States by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for excellence in the creation and production of motion pictures. First presented in 1929 for films shown in 1927 and 1928, the Academy Awards, commonly known as Oscars, are among the film industry’s most coveted prizes.

The entire academy membership participates in voting for the annual awards. In most award categories, a maximum of five entrants are first nominated by the academy members who work in that particular field (that is, actors select actors, directors select directors, and so on). From among these nominees all academy members select the winners by secret ballot. The winners are publicly announced at a formal ceremony each spring. One hour of the 1929 awards ceremony was broadcast on the radio, and from 1944 through 1969 the entire ceremony was broadcast. Television broadcasts began in 1953 and today attract a worldwide audience. Various people claim to have given the name Oscar to the symbolic statuette presented to winners, including actor Bette Davis, academy librarian Margaret Herrick, and columnist Sidney Skolsky. But the origin of the name has never been definitively determined. The gold-plated bronze human figure, which is 34.3 cm (13.5 in) high and weighs 3.9 kg (8.5 lb), was created by American sculptor George Stanley based on sketches made by American motion-picture art director Cedric Gibbons.

Awards are given for best motion picture; foreign-language film; performances by male and female actors in both leading and supporting roles; achievement in direction; screenplays, both original and adapted from previously produced or published material; and scores and songs composed for films. Other award categories include live-action short subject, animated short subject, documentary feature, and documentary short feature. Excellence in technical disciplines is also recognized, including art direction, cinematography, costume design, makeup, film editing, sound and sound effects editing, and visual effects. In addition, special or honorary awards are given for distinguished careers or humanitarian achievement.

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