- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “Frost/Nixon”
- (Universal)
- “Milk”
- (Focus Features)
- “The Reader”
- (Weinstein)
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
Best animated feature film
- “Bolt”
- (Disney)
- “Kung Fu Panda”
- (Dreamworks)
- “WALL•E”
- (Disney/Pixar)
Achievement in directing
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “Frost/Nixon”
- (Universal)
- “Milk”
- (Focus Features)
- “The Reader”
- (Weinstein)
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
Achievement in art direction
- “Changeling”
- (Universal)
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Dark Knight”
- (Warner Bros.)
- “The Duchess”
- (Paramount Vantage)
- “Revolutionary Road”
- (Paramount Vantage)
Achievement in visual effects
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Dark Knight”
- (Warner Bros.)
- “Iron Man”
- (Paramount Pictures)
Achievement in film editing
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Dark Knight”
- (Warner Bros.)
- “Frost/Nixon”
- (Universal)
- “Milk”
- (Focus Features)
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
Screenplay based on material previously produced or published
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “Doubt”
- (Miramax)
- “Frost/Nixon”
- (Universal)
- “The Reader”
- (Weinstein)
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
Screenplay written directly for the screen
- “Frozen River”
- (Sony Pictures Classics)
- “Happy Go Lucky”
- (Miramax)
- “In Bruges”
- (Focus Features)
- “Milk”
- (Focus Features)
- “WALL•E”
- (Disney/Pixar)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “Defiance”
- (Paramount Vantage)
- “Milk”
- (Focus Features)
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
- “WALL•E”
- (Disney/Pixar)
Achievement in cinematography
- “Changeling”
- (Universal)
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Dark Knight”
- (Warner Bros.)
- “The Reader”
- (Weinstein)
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
- “Down to Earth” from “WALL•E”
- (Disney/Pixar)
- “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
- “O… Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a leading role
- Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor”
- (Visitor Holdings, LLC.)
- Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon”
- (Universal)
- Sean Penn in “Milk”
- (Focus Features)
- Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler”
- (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
- Josh Brolin in “Milk”
- (Focus Features)
- Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”
- (Miramax)
- Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”
- (Warner Bros.)
- Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road”
- (Paramount Vantage)
Best documentary feature
- “The Betrayal”
- (Cinema Guild)
- “Encounters At the End of the World”
- (THINKFilm)
- “The Garden”
- (Balcony Films)
- “Man On Wire”
- (Magnolia)
- “Trouble the Water”
- (Zeitgeist Films)
Foreign language film
- “The Baader Meinhof Complex”
- German
- “The Class”
- (Sony Pictures Classics)
- France
- “Departures”
- Japan
- “Revanche”
- Austria
- “Waltz With Bashir”
(Sony Pictures Classics)
- Israel
Achievement in makeup
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Dark Knight”
- (Warner Bros.)
- “Hellboy 2: the Golden Army”
- (Universal)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
- Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married”
- (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Angelina Jolie in “Changeling”
- (Universal)
- Melissa Leo in “Frozen River”
- (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
- (Miramax)
- Kate Winslet in “The Reader”
- (Weinstein)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
- Amy Adams in “Doubt”
- (Miramax)
- Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
- (Weinstein)
- Viola Davis in “Doubt”
- (Miramax)
- Taraji P. Henson “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler”
- (Fox Searchlight)
Achievement in costume design
- “Australia”
- (20th Century Fox)
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Duchess”
- (Paramount Vantage)
- “Milk”
- (Focus Features)
- “Revolutionary Road”
- (Paramount Vantage)
Achievement in sound mixing
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “The Dark Knight”
- (Warner Bros.)
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
- “WALL•E”
- (Disney/Pixar)
- “Wanted”
- (Universal)
Achievement in sound editing
- “The Dark Knight”
- (Warner Bros.)
- “Iron Man”
- (Paramount Pictures)
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- (Fox Searchlight)
- “WALL•E”
- (Disney/Pixar)
- “Wanted”
- (Universal)
