2009 OSCARS CHEAT SHEET BEST PICTURE BEST FOREIGN FILM ”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “The Baader Meinhof Complex,” Germany “Frost/Nixon” “The Class,” France “Milk” “Departures,” Japan “The Reader” “Revanche,” Austria “Slumdog Millionaire” “Waltz With Bashir,” Israel BEST ACTOR BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Richard Jenkins, “The Visitor” Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, “The Curious Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon” Case of Benjamin Button” Sean Penn, “Milk” John Patrick Shanley, “Doubt” Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Peter Morgan, “Frost/Nixon” Benjamin Button” David Hare, “The Reader” Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler” Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire” BEST ACTRESS BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married” Courtney Hunt, “Frozen River” Angelina Jolie, “Changeling” Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky” Melissa Leo, “Frozen River” Martin McDonagh, “In Bruges” Meryl Streep, “Doubt” Dustin Lance Black, “Milk” Kate Winslet, “The Reader.” Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon and Pete Docter, “WALL-E” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Josh Brolin, “Milk” BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Robert Downey Jr., “Tropic Thunder” “Bolt” Philip Seymour Hoffman, “Doubt” “Kung Fu Panda” Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight” “WALL-E” Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary Road” BEST ART DIRECTION BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS “Changeling” Amy Adams, “Doubt” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” “The Dark Knight” Viola Davis, “Doubt” “The Duchess” Taraji P. Henson, “The Curious Case of “Revolutionary Road” Benjamin Button” Marisa Tomei, “The Wrestler” BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY “Changeling” BEST DIRECTOR “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” David Fincher, “The Curious Case of “The Dark Knight” Benjamin Button” “The Reader” Ron Howard, “Frost/Nixon” “Slumdog Millionaire” Gus Van Sant, “Milk” Stephen Daldry, “The Reader” Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire” 1 2009 OSCARS CHEAT SHEET BEST SOUND MIXING BEST DOCUMENTARY “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “The Conscience of Nhem En” “The Dark Knight” “The Final Inch” “Slumdog Millionaire” “Smile Pinki” “WALL-E” “The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306” “Wanted” BEST DOCUMENTARY BEST SOUND EDITING “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “The Dark Knight” “The Dark Knight” “Iron Man” “Frost/Nixon” “Slumdog Millionaire” “Milk” “WALL-E” “Slumdog Millionaire” “Wanted” BEST MAKEUP BEST ORIGINAL SCORE “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Alexandre “The Dark Knight” Desplat “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” “Defiance,” James Newton Howard “Milk,” Danny Elfman “Slumdog Millionaire” A.R. Rahman BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM “WALL-E,” Thomas Newman “La Maison en Petits Cubes” “Lavatory - Lovestory” “Oktapodi” BEST ORIGINAL SONG “Presto” “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E,” Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman “This Way Up” “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire,” A.R. Rahman and Gulzar “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire,” A.R. Rahman BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM and Maya Arulpragasam “Auf der Strecke” (On the Line) “Manon on the Asphalt” “New Boy” “The Pig” BEST COSTUME “Spielzeugland” (Toyland) “Australia” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “The Duchess” BEST VISUAL EFFECTS “Milk” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “Revolutionary Road” “The Dark Knight” “Iron Man” BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) “Encounters at the End of the World” “The Garden” “Man on Wire” “Trouble the Water” 2.