Oscar Winners

[OnePimpTiger]

Here's who took home the Oscar for what:

Actor: Sean Penn, "Milk"

Actress: Kate Winslet, "The Reader"

Director: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"

Foreign-Language Film: "Departures," Japan

Original Song: "Slumdog Millionaire"

Original Score: "Slumdog Millionaire"

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: Jerry Lewis

Film Editing: "Slumdog Millionaire"

Sound Mixing: "Slumdog Millionaire"

Sound Editing: "The Dark Knight"

Visual Effects: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Documentary, Short Subject: "Smile Pinki"

Documentary Feature: "Man on Wire"

Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"

Short Film: "Spielzeugland"

Makeup: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Costume: "The Duchess"

Art Direction: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Animated Short Film: "La Maison en Petits Cubes"

Animated Feature: "WALL-E"

Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire"

Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, "Milk"

Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"


Shocker of the night: Heath Ledger wins Supporting Actor. It was a given and when they presented the award, by the time they opened the envelope anyone with half a brain knew he had won.

These things have become far to predictable...

[RedGoneWILD]

well i've seen slumdog millionaire, but not benjamin button or milk....slumdog was a good movie, but probably not good enough to win all those awards...they are like the only 3 movies on that list...ha

[daniel3417]

well i've seen slumdog millionaire, but not benjamin button or milk....slumdog was a good movie, but probably not good enough to win all those awards...they are like the only 3 movies on that list...ha

I've seen most. In my opinion, Slumdog Millionaire earned those awards when compared to the competition. It was a down year for the Oscars.

Gran Torino was far and away the best movie of 2008. It got no nominations for ANYTHING. Something happened behind closed doors there... And it couldn't be because it was so blatantly racist because Crash won in 2005.

[Rockman]

These things have become far to predictable...

Baloney. Huge surprises at the Oscars this year....did you see Whoopie Goldberg's Boobie tat? I did not see that coming. Huge surprise!

[Bonds_25]

Heath deserved it, no matter how predictable the outcome was. I found it curious that he was left out of the video of all the people who passed away in 2008.

Got a little tired of the Slumdog Millionaire parade of awards.

[streicher187]

I think that ledger winning was a joke, it was an average performance in an average movie. Also like how they put no serious competition with him. One of the losers at a different award show said they were not suprised and when asked what the consolation was they said "I'm Alive"

Rourke should have won best actor but again guess you have to be dead or play homosexual to win an oscar.

[RedGoneWILD]

I think that ledger winning was a joke, it was an average performance in an average movie. Also like how they put no serious competition with him. One of the losers at a different award show said they were not suprised and when asked what the consolation was they said "I'm Alive"

Rourke should have won best actor but again guess you have to be dead or play homosexual to win an oscar.

heath ledger was awesome as the joker...you must've caught a different movie

i havent seen milk, but im not much of a sean penn fan...mickey rourke was awesome in the wrestler and im surprised that film didnt win anything

[jonnyweb]

Heath definitely deserved it, have you watched it for his performance and not the movie itself?
he was awesome in it.

[OnePimpTiger]

Baloney. Huge surprises at the Oscars this year....did you see Whoopie Goldberg's Boobie tat? I did not see that coming. Huge surprise!

I didn't see that...thank God!

I think that ledger winning was a joke, it was an average performance in an average movie. Also like how they put no serious competition with him. One of the losers at a different award show said they were not suprised and when asked what the consolation was they said "I'm Alive"

I thought The Dark Knight was a really good movie and I thought Heath did a good job...but not Oscar-worthy by any means. It kills me how before he died, he was viewed as a good young actor, but as soon as he died, he was all of a sudden the best of his generation and a devistating loss to the acting community. Just another example that the best way to ensure your fame as an actor/musician/artist is to die young.

Rourke should have won best actor but again guess you have to be dead or play homosexual to win an oscar.

That's one of the very reasons I said it was predictable...but you forgot mentally handicapped.

[daniel3417]

I think that ledger winning was a joke, it was an average performance in an average movie. Also like how they put no serious competition with him. One of the losers at a different award show said they were not suprised and when asked what the consolation was they said "I'm Alive"

Rourke should have won best actor but again guess you have to be dead or play homosexual to win an oscar.

Well, this a subject that can't be proven, but I think Heath Ledger was won of the most convincing winners of Best Supporting Actors in a long time. Not being much of a Ledger fan, I didn't recognize him for a long time in the movie. And average movie? It may just not be your kind of story, but it made $1 billion worldwide. I really liked it, and a lot of "critics" thought it should have gotten a Best Picture nomination.

Dead or gay? Daniel Day-Lewis, Forrest Whitaker, Russell Crowe? There are tons more people that played hardcore guys and won.