"O Saya" from SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyrics by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best Motion Picture of the Year
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Paramount and Warner Bros.) A Kennedy/Marshall Production, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Cean Chaffin, Producers
FROST/NIXON (Universal) A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
MILK (Focus Features) A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
THE READER (The Weinstein Company) A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production, Nominees to be determined
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight) A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer

Best Animated Short Film
LA MAISON EN PETITS CUBES, A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato
LAVATORY - LOVESTORY, A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production, Konstantin Bronzit
OKTAPODI (Talantis Films), A Gobelins, L'ecole de l'image Production, Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
PRESTO (Walt Disney), A Pixar Animation Studios Production, Doug Sweetland
THIS WAY UP, A Nexus Production, Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best Live Action Short Film
AUF DER STRECKE (ON THE LINE) (Hamburg Shortfilmagency), An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
MANON ON THE ASPHALT (La Luna Productions), A La Luna Production, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
NEW BOY (Network Ireland Television), A Zanzibar Films Production, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
THE PIG, An M & M Production, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Hogh
SPIELZEUGLAND (TOYLAND), A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank

Achievement in Sound Editing
THE DARK KNIGHT (Warner Bros.) Richard King
IRON MAN (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment) Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight) Tom Sayers
WALL-E (Walt Disney) Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
WANTED (Universal) Wylie Stateman

Achievement in Sound Mixing
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Paramount and Warner Bros.), David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
THE DARK KNIGHT (Warner Bros.), Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
WALL-E (Walt Disney), Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
WANTED (Universal), Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montano and Petr Forejt

Achievement in Visual Effects
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
(Digital Domain, Lola/Hydraulx, Asylum, Matte World Digital, Drac Studios, Evil Eye Pictures, Gentle Giant Studios, Ollin Studio and Special Effects Atlantic)

THE DARK KNIGHT (Warner Bros.), Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
(Double Negative, Framestore, Animal Makers, BUF, Escape Studios, Gentle Giant Studios, Mediscene and New Deal Studios)

IRON MAN (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment), John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan
(Industrial Light & Magic, The Orphanage, Stan Winston Studio, Tata Elixsi Visual Computing Lab, Pixel Liberation Front, The Embassy, New Deal Studios, Prologue Films, CafeFX, Giant Studios, Lola VFX and Lund Background Pictures)

Adapted Screenplay
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
DOUBT (Miramax), Written by John Patrick Shanley
FROST/NIXON (Universal), Screenplay by Peter Morgan
THE READER (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Hare
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original Screenplay
FROZEN RIVER (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Courtney Hunt
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (Miramax), Written by Mike Leigh