MSN's Guide to Oscars 2009

 

BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men (winner)
There Will Be Blood
 
DIRECTING
Julian Schnabel (for 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly')
Jason Reitman (for 'Juno')
Tony Gilroy (for 'Michael Clayton')
Joel Coen/Ethan Coen (for 'No Country for Old Men') (winner)
Paul Thomas Anderson (for 'There Will Be Blood')
 
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
George Clooney ('Michael Clayton')
Daniel Day-Lewis ('There Will Be Blood') (winner)
Johnny Depp ('Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street')
Tommy Lee Jones ('In the Valley of Elah')
Viggo Mortensen ('Eastern Promises')
 
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Casey Affleck ('The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford')
Javier Bardem ('No Country for Old Men') (winner)
Philip Seymour Hoffman ('Charlie Wilson's War)
Hal Holbrook ('Into the Wild')
Tom Wilkinson ('Michael Clayton')
 
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett ('Elizabeth: The Golden Age')
Julie Christie ('Away from Her')
Marion Cotillard ('La Vie en Rose') (winner)
Laura Linney ('The Savages')
Ellen Page ('Juno')
 
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Cate Blanchett ('I'm Not There')
Ruby Dee ('American Gangster')
Saoirse Ronan ('Atonement')
Amy Ryan ('Gone Baby Gone')
Tilda Swinton ('Michael Clayton') (winner)
 
DOCUMENTARY - FEATURE LENGTH
No End In Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side (winner)
War/Dance
 
DOCUMENTARY - SHORT
Freeheld (winner)
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother
 
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Persepolis
Ratatouille (winner)
Surf's Up
 
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont Au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & The Wolf (winner)
 
LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets) (winner)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
 
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort
The Counterfeiters (winner)
Katyn
Mongol
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WRITING - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men (winner)
There will Be Blood
 
WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno (winner)
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages
 
SCORE
Dario Marianelli from 'Atonement' (winner)
Alberto Iglesias for 'The Kite Runner'
James Newton Howard for 'Michael Clayton'
Michael Giacchino for 'Ratatouille'
Marco Beltrami for '3:10 to Yuma'
 
SONG
'Falling Slowly' by Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - from 'Once' (winner)
'Happy Working Song' by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz - from 'Enchanted'
'Raise It Up' - from 'August Rush'
'So Close' by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz - from 'Enchanted'
'That's How You Know' by Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz - from 'Enchanted'
 
ART DIRECTION
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compas
Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (winner)
There Will Be Blood
 
CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood (winner)
 
COSTUME DESIGN
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (winner)
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
 
FILM EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum (winner)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
 
MAKEUP
La Vie en Rose (winner)
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
 
SOUND EDITING
The Bourne Ultimatum (winner)
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
 
SOUND MIXING
The Bourne Ultimatum (winner)
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
 
VISUAL EFFECTS
The Golden Compass (winner)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers