Academy Awards : Oscars :complete list of nominees and the winners

Slumdog millionaire sweeped the academy awards of 2009 with as much as 8 Oscars to its name including that of Best Picture and Music by A.R. Rahman who got two statues.

The less known thing is another entrant with no buzz at all "Smile Pinki", the tale of a Uttar Pradesh (State of India) girl and her fight against the social stigma of a cleft-lip, won the Oscar award for Best Documentary - Short Subject category.

Here is a complete list of nominees and the winners marked in red color.

Best Picture
# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

# 'Frost/Nixon'

# 'Milk'

# 'The Reader'

# 'Slumdog Millionaire'

Best Director
# Danny Boyle 'Slumdog Millionaire'

# Stephen Daldry 'The Reader'

# David Fincher 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

# Ron Howard 'Frost/Nixon'

# Gus Van Sant 'Milk'

Best Actor
# Richard Jenkins 'The Visitor'

# Frank Langella 'Frost/Nixon'

# 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'

# Kate Winslet 'The Reader'


Best Supporting Actor
# Josh Brolin 'Milk'

# Robert Downey Jr. 'Tropic Thunder'

# Philip Seymour Hoffman 'Doubt'

# Heath Ledger 'The Dark Knight'

# Michael Shannon 'Revolutionary Road'

Best Supporting Actress
# Amy Adams 'Doubt'

# Penelope Cruz 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'

# Viola Davis 'Doubt'

# Taraji P. Henson 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

# Marisa Tomei 'The Wrestler'

Best Animated Feature Film
# 'Bolt'

# 'Kung Fu Panda'

# 'Wall-E'

Best Foreign Film
# 'The Baader Meinhof Complex'
Germany

# 'The Class'
France

# 'Departures'
Japan

# 'Revanche'
Austria

# 'Waltz With Bashir'
Israel

Best Original Screenplay
# 'Milk'
Dustin Lance Black

# 'Frozen River'
Courtney Hunt

# 'Happy Go Lucky'
Mike Leigh

# 'In Bruges'
Martin McDonagh

# 'Wall-E'
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

Best Adapted Screenplay
# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord

# 'Doubt'
John Patrick Shanley

# 'Frost/ Nixon'
Peter Morgan

# 'The Reader'
David Hare

# 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Simon Beaufoy

Best Documentary Feature
# 'The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)'

# 'Encounters at the End of the World'

# 'The Garden'

# 'Man on Wire'

# 'Trouble the Water'

Best Original Score
# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'

# 'Defiance'

# 'Milk'

# 'Slumdog Millionaire'

# 'WALL-E'

Best Original Song
# 'Down to Earth'
'WALL-E'

# 'Jai Ho'
'Slumdog Millionaire'

# 'O Saya'
'Slumdog Millionaire'

Best Film Editing
# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall

# 'The Dark Knight'
Lee Smith

# 'Frost/Nixon'
Mike Hill, Dan Hanley

# 'Milk'
Elliot Graham

# 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Chris Dickens

Best Documentary - Short Subject
#'The Conscience of Nhem En'

#'The Final Inch'

#'Smile Pinki'

#'The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306'

Best Cinematography
# 'Changeling'
Tom Stern

# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Claudio Miranda

# 'The Dark Knight'
Wally Pfister

# 'The Reader'
Chris Menges, Roger Deakins

# 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Costume Design
# 'Australia'
Catherine Martin

# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Jacqueline West

# 'The Duchess'
Michael O'Connor

# 'Milk'
Danny Glicker

# 'Revolutionary Road'
Albert Wolsky

Best Sound Mixing
# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten

# 'The Dark Knight'
Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick

# 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty

# 'WALL-E'
Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt

# 'Wanted'
Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt

Best Sound Editing
# 'The Dark Knight'
Richard King

# 'Iron Man'
Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes

# 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Tom Sayers

# 'WALL-E'
Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood

# 'Wanted'
Wylie Stateman

Best Live Action Short Film
# 'Auf der Strecke (On the Line)'

# 'Manon on the Asphalt'

# 'New Boy'

# 'The Pig'

# 'Spielzeugland (Toyland)'

Best Animated Short Film
#'La Maison de Petits Cubes'

#'Lavatory - Lovestory'

#'Oktapodi'

#'Presto'

#'This Way Up'

Best Makeup
# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Greg Cannom

# 'The Dark Knight'
John Caglione, Jr., Conor O'Sullivan

# 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army'
Mike Elizalde, Thom Flout

Best Art Direction
# 'Changeling'
James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis

# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo

# 'The Dark Knight'
Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando

# 'The Duchess'
Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway

# 'Revolutionary Road'
Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt

Best Visual Effects
# 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'
Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron

# 'The Dark Knight'
Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin

# 'Iron Man'
John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan