Complete List of Oscar Winners

Jai Ho! The revamped Academy Awards had several highlights, and as a telecast, it was perfectly fine. I'm still amazed that this show completely butchers the performances of the Best Song and Score nominees nearly every year, as if audience members wouldn't rather hear the entire song by the original artist, performed with a only modicum of overly theatrical staging. Ben Stiller's Joaquined appearance in the Best Cinematography segment was probably the show's most memorable event. The Judd Apatow short film was a little better in theory than in execution, and the show moved briskly along in spite of the eulogies performed for each nominee in an acting category. Why the directors didn't get the same seven-minute tribute makes no sense, unless the show is trying to celebrate the stars in attendance. Of course, if that's the case, why bother giving out Documentary Short Subject and Makeup awards? But on the whole, the talk about how this telecast would be so much different really amounted to nothing. The theater looked great and Hugh Jackman was personable. End of story. As for the awards, I can't say there were major surprises. If you've been following the awards season, you know how back-and -forth the race has been between the ever-prostletyzing Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke for Best Actor. Since Rourke won last night at the Independent Spirit Awards, tonight it was Penn's turn. But Slumdog Millionaire won a lot and the other acting categories played out the way most observers believed they would. Here are the winners of the 81st Annual Academy Awards: Best Picture:
Slumdog Millionaire Best Actor:
Sean Penn - Milk Best Actress:
Kate Winslet - The Reader Best Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight Best Supporting Actress:
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona Best Director:
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire Best Original Screenplay:
Milk Best Adapted Screenplay:
Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Feature:
Wall-E Best Documentary Feature:
Man on Wire Best Foreign Language Film:
Departures Best Cinematography:
Slumdog Millionaire Best Editing:
Slumdog Millionaire Best Art Direction:
Benjamin Button Best Costume Design:
The Duchess Best Makeup:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Best Visual Effects:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Best Sound Mixing:
Slumdog Millionaire Best Sound Editing:
The Dark Knight Best Original Song:
“Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire Best Original Score:
Slumdog Millionaire Best Animated Short Film:
La Maison en Petits Cubes Best Live Action Short Film:
Spielzeugland (Toyland) Best Documentary Short Film:
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Comments

[knives]

To save my ass here a little Slumdog does deserve cinematography, even though it saddens me that Deakins still has nothing to show.

[Andy]

I thought the most memorable moment of the night was when the guy won for Best Animated Short and ended his speech, in which he demonstrated he didn't know English, by acknowledging it and humoring the audience when he said, "Domo origato, Mr. Roboto."

[Vince]

Hey Colin, I tied with ya for the Oscar Prediction Contest (I would've won too...if "Slumdog" didn't pick up Sound Mixing). Hope everyone else did ok too, it was a fun time watching tonight.

[Alex]

I for one am disappointed that Frost/Nixon didn't win anything. I seem to be alone in my enthusiasm for that film. It wasn't my pick for Best Picture, but I thought it was an extraordinary film that deserved at least SOMETHING. I started to get kind of annoyed at Benjamin Button and Slumdog for winning category after category. I always dislike it when you can tell immediately which films are going to dominate the Oscars. I liked Slumdog Millionaire, and Benjamin Button was alright, but I can't help but think that they were too heavily favored. But perhaps I am just bitter.

[Mr. Sarcasm]

The Academy needs to get away from lavishing all the awards on a specific film each year. I think enough members let the hype of a single film cloud their judgment as often as not in categories that they're voting that it negates the significance of each award.

[Anybody]

It was a pretty disappointing show I thought. It was littered with good stuff (the writers did a good job) but the production looked cheesy and cheap. The opening number was poor at best and the categories were predictable (besides the foreign film upset).

Kudos to Stiller, Rogan and Franco... Tina Fey and Steve Martin were great and the Baz Lurhman musical section was pretty impressive. HOWEVER can we go back to a comedian host please... if you want to shorten the show have him/her present some of the awards. The actor/actress stuff was kind of cultish and weird - and if you're going to do it that way, do it the same for director as well.

Next host - Tina Fey, Jon Stewart round 3 or Ricky Gervais (sleeper pick - Sasha Baron Cohen)