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The winners are!

*BEST PICTURE*
*Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
The Reader
Frost/Nixon
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*BEST DIRECTOR*
*Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Gus Van Sant, Milk
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*BEST ACTOR*
Sean Penn, Milk
*Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

*BEST ACTRESS*
Meryl Streep, Doubt I keep being undecided about this.
*Kate Winslet, The Reader
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling

*BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR*
*Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder

*BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS*
Viola Davis, Doubt
Amy Adams, Doubt
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona

*BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY*
*Milk, Dustin Lance Black
In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
Frozen River, Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

*BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY*
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley
*Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy
The Reader, David Hare
Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
*WALL-E

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory — Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

BEST ART DIRECTION
Changeling
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
*Slumdog Millionaire

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Milk
*Revolutionary Road

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
*Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness — From the Balcony of Room 306

BEST EDITING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
*Slumdog Millionaire

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
*The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)

BEST MAKEUP
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

BEST 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

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Down to Earth," WALL-E
"Jai Ho," Slumdog Millionaire
"O Saya," Slumdog Millionaire

BEST SOUND EDITING
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

BEST SOUND MIXING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man