Slumdog Millionaire

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• WALL-E
• The Wrestler

Danny Boyle –Slumdog Millionaire

• Christopher Nolan –The Dark Knight
• David Fincher –The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Gus Van Sant –Milk
• Ron Howard –Frost/Nixon

Sean Penn –Milk asHarvey Milk

• Brad Pitt –The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
• Clint Eastwood –Gran Torino asWalt Kowalski
• Frank Langella –Frost/Nixon asRichard Nixon
• Mickey Rourke –The Wrestler as Robin Ramzinski/Randy Robinson
• Richard Jenkins –The Visitor as Walter Vale

Anne Hathaway –Rachel Getting Married as Kym Buchman (Tie)
Meryl Streep –Doubt as Aloysius Beauvier (Tie)

• Angelina Jolie –Changeling asChristine Collins
• Cate Blanchett –The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Daisy Fuller
• Kate Beckinsale –Nothing but the Truth as Rachel Armstrong
• Melissa Leo –Frozen River as Ray Eddy

Heath Ledger –The Dark Knight asJoker

• James Franco –Milk asScott Smith
• Josh Brolin –Milk asDan White
• Philip Seymour Hoffman –Doubt as Brendan Flynn
• Robert Downey Jr. –Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus

Kate Winslet –The Reader as Hanna Schmitz

• Marisa Tomei –The Wrestler as Pam/Cassidy
• Penelope Cruz –Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Maria Elena
• Taraji P. Henson –The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Queenie
• Vera Farmiga –Nothing but the Truth as Erica Van Doren
• Viola Davis –Doubt as Miller

Dev Patel –Slumdog Millionaire asJamal Malik

• Brandon Walters –Australia as Nullah
• Dakota Fanning –The Secret Life of Bees as Lily Owens
• David Kross –The Reader as Michael Berg

Milk

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Doubt
• Rachel Getting Married

Slumdog Millionaire –Simon Beaufoy

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button –Eric Roth
• Doubt –John Patrick Shanley
• Frost/Nixon –Peter Morgan
• Milk –Dustin Lance Black

Waltz with Bashir •Israel

• A Christmas Tale •France
• Gomorrah •Italy
• I've Loved You So Long •France
• Let the Right One In •Sweden
• Mongol •Kazakhstan

WALL-E

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
• Waltz with Bashir
• Space Chimps

Man on Wire (Tie)
Stealing America: Vote by Vote (Tie)

• I.O.U.S.A.
• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
• Standard Operating Procedure
• Young@Heart

The Dark Knight

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace
• Wanted
• The Incredible Hulk

Tropic Thunder

• Burn After Reading
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Role Models
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Slumdog Millionaire –A. R. Rahman

• Changeling –Clint Eastwood
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button –Alexandre Desplat
• The Dark Knight –Hans Zimmer andJames Newton Howard
• Milk –Danny Elfman

"The Wrestler" –The Wrestler

• "Another Way to Die" –Quantum of Solace
• "Down to Earth" –WALL-E
• "I Thought I Lost You" –Bolt
• "Jai Ho" –Slumdog Millionaire