Best Picture: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,Frost/Nixon,Milk,The Reader,Slumdog Millionaire.
Actor: Richard Jenkins, The Visitor ; Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon ; Sean Penn, Milk ; Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ; Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler.
Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married ; Angelina Jolie, Changeling ; Melissa Leo, Frozen River ; Meryl Streep, Doubt ; Kate Winslet, The Reader.
Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, Milk ; Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder ; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt ; Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight ; Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road.
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.
Director: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ; Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon ; Gus Van Sant, Milk ; Stephen Daldry, The Reader ; Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire.
Foreign Film: The Baader Meinhof Complex, Germany; The Class, France; Departures, Japan; Revanche, Austria; Waltz With Bashir, Israel.
Adapted Screenplay: Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ; John Patrick Shanley, Doubt ; Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon ; David Hare, The Reader ; Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire.
Original Screenplay: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River ; Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky ; Martin McDonagh, In Bruges ; Dustin Lance Black, Milk ; Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter, WALL-E.
Animated Feature Film: Bolt ; Kung Fu Panda ; WALL-E.
Art Direction: Changeling,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,The Dark Knight,The Duchess,Revolutionary Road.
Cinematography: Changeling,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,The Dark Knight,The Reader,Slumdog Millionaire.
Sound Mixing: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,The Dark Knight,Slumdog Millionaire,WALL-E,Wanted.
Sound Editing: The Dark Knight,Iron Man,Slumdog Millionaire,WALL-E,Wanted.
Original Score: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat; Defiance, James Newton Howard; Milk, Danny Elfman; Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman; WALL-E, Thomas Newman.
Original Song: Down to Earth from WALL-E, Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; Jai Ho from Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman and Gulzar; O Saya from Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam.
Costume: Australia,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,The Duchess,Milk,Revolutionary Road.
Documentary Feature: The Betrayal (Nerakhoon),Encounters at the End of the World,The Garden,Man on Wire,Trouble the Water.
Documentary (short subject): The Conscience of Nhem En,The Final Inch,Smile Pinki,The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306.
Film Editing: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,The Dark Knight,Frost/Nixon,Milk,Slumdog Millionaire.
Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,The Dark Knight,Hellboy II: The Golden Army.
Animated Short Film: La Maison en Petits Cubes,Lavatory — Lovestory,Oktapodi,Presto,This Way Up.
Live Action Short Film: Auf der Strecke (On the Line),Manon on the Asphalt,New Boy,The Pig,Spielzeugland (Toyland).
Visual Effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,The Dark Knight,Iron Man.