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Director Danny Boyle and its film "Slumdog Millionaire� with their modern-day fairy tale about hope and hard times in the slums of Mumbai, pushed aside big-studio contenders to sweep top honors at the 2009 OSCAR Awards on Sunday. Following are the winners, as they are announced, at the 81st Academy Awards, which have being held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on 22 February, 2009.
Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader
Best actress: Kate Winslet - The Reader
Nominations: Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married; Angelina Jolie - Changeling; Melissa Leo - Frozen River; Meryl Streep - Doubt
Best actor: Sean Penn - Milk
Nominations: Richard Jenkins - The Visitor; Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon; Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Best supporting actress: Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Nominations: Amy Adams - Doubt; Viola Davis - Doubt; Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Best original screenplay: Milk
Nominations: Happy-Go-Lucky; Wall-E; In Bruges; Frozen River
Best adapted screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Doubt; Frost/Nixon; The Reader
Best animated feature film: Wall-E
Nominations: Bolt; Kung Fu Panda
Best animated short film: La Maison en Petits Cubes
Nominations: Lavatory - Lovestory; Oktapodi; Presto; This Way Up
Art direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nominations: Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Duchess; Revolutionary Road
Costume design: The Duchess
Nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Australia; Milk; Revolutionary Road
Make-up: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nominations: The Dark Knight; Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Reader
Best live action short film: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Nominations: Auf der Strecke (On The Line); Manon on the Asphalt; New Boy; The Pig
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Nominations: Josh Brolin - Milk; Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder; Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt; Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Best documentary feature: Man on Wire
Nominations: The Betrayal; Encounters at the End of the World; The Garden; Trouble The Water
Best documentary short subject: Smile Pinki
Nominations: The Conscience of Nhem En; The Final Inch; The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306
Visual effects: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Nominations: The Dark Knight; Iron Man
Sound editing: The Dark Knight
Nominations: Iron Man; Wanted; Slumdog Millionaire; Wall-E
Sound mixing: Slumdog Millionaire
Nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Wanted; Wall-E
Film editing:Slumdog Millionaire
Nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; The Dark Knight; Frost/Nixon; Milk
Best original score: Slumdog Millionaire
Nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Defiance; Milk; Slumdog Millionaire; Wall-E
Best original song: Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire
Nominations: Down To Earth - Wall-E; O Saya - Slumdog Millionaire
Best foreign language film: Departures - Japan
Nominations: Revanche - Austria; The Class - France; The Baader Meinhof Complex - Germany; Waltz With Bashir - Israel
Best director: Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Nominations: Stephen Daldry - The Reader; David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon; Gus Van Sant - Milk
