Slumdog Millionaire Swept The Oscars 2009

Slumdog Millionaire swept the OScars by its feet defeating all the nominees in the Best Picture category including the Curios Case Of BEnjamin Button and The Reader. An underdog movie about a little guy overcoming life’s enormous obstacles swept the Oscars Sunday night, as Slumdog Millionaire racked up eight Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture and for its Director, Danny Boyle.

Sean Penn took the Best Actor award who said on his acceptance speech, “I did not expect this, and I know how hard I make it to appreciate me, often,” Penn said in his impassioned acceptance speech – in which he also acknowledged his fellow nominee, whose career had faded away in the ’90s. “Mickey Rourke rises again,” said Penn, “and he is my brother.”

Kate Winslet got the Best Actress award for her stint on the Reader. She confided to the audience in her acceptance speech that she first pretended to win an Oscar when she was 8 and looking in the bathroom mirror, holding a shampoo bottle.

Heath Ledger got a posthumous award for his role as the joker in the Dark Knight. And Penelope Cruz won an Oscar for best supporting actress for the very first time.

Here’s the complete list of nominees and winners for Oscars 2009:

Best Picture

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* The Reader
* WINNER Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor

* Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
* Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
* WINNER 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
* WINNER Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Supporting Actor

* Josh Brolin, Milk
* Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
* Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
* WINNER Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
* Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress

* Amy Adams, Doubt
* WINNER Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* Viola Davis, Doubt
* Taraji Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Director

* WINNER Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
* David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
* Stephen Daldry, The Reader
* Gus Van Sant, Milk

Best Original Screenplay

* Frozen River
* WINNER Milk
* In Bruges
* Happy-Go-Lucky
* Wall*E

Best Adapted Screenplay

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Doubt
* Frost/Nixon
* The Reader
* WINNER Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Film

* Bolt
* Kung Fu Panda
* WINNER Wall*E

Best Foreign Language Film

* The Baader Meinhof Complex
* The Class
* WINNERDepartures
* Revanche
* Waltz With Bashir

Best Art Direction

* Changeling
* WINNER The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* The Duchess
* Revolutionary Road

Cinematography

* Changeling
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* The Reader
* WINNER Slumdog Millionaire

Sound Mixing

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* WINNER Slumdog Millionaire
* Wall*E
* Wanted

Sound Editing

* WINNER The Dark Knight
* Iron Man
* Slumdog Millionaire
* Wall*E
* Wanted

Original Score

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Defiance
* Milk
* WINNER Slumdog Millionaire
* WALL*E

Original Song

* “Down to Earth” from WALL*E
* WINNER “Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire
* “O Saya” from Slumdog Millionaire

Costume

* Australia
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* WINNER The Duchess
* Milk
* Revolutionary Road

Documentary Feature

* The Betrayal
* Encounters at the End of the World
* The Garden
* WINNER Man on Wire
* Trouble the Water

Documentary (short subject):

* The Conscience of Nhem En
* The Final Inch
* WINNER Smile Pinki
* The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306

Makeup

* WINNER The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Animated Short Film

* WINNER La Maison en Petits Cubes
* Lavatory — Lovestory
* Oktapodi
* Presto
* This Way Up

Live Action Short Film

* Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
* Manon on the Asphalt
* New Boy
* The Pig
* WINNER Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Visual Effects

* WINNER The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Iron Man

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