Nominalizarile celei de-a 81-a editii a Galei Premiilor Oscar au fost anuntate joi de catre presedintele Academiei, Sid Ganis si de catre castigatorul Premiului Oscar, actorul si membrul Academiei Forest Whitaker. Premiile Oscar pentru cele mai bune filme din 2008 se vor decerna Duminica 22 februarie 2009 la Kodak Theatre din Hollywood & Highland Center, si vor fi transmise in direct de catre ABC Television Network.
Ceremonia va fi transmisa in direct in toata lumea, in peste 200 de tari. La noi, probabil ca va fi transmisa ca si in ceilalti ani de catre HBO.
CineFan.ro a realizat astazi o premiera: este pentru prima data cand in Romania un site de cinema (CineFan.ro) si un post de Radio (RadioLynx.ro, in cadrul emisiunii CineFan) au transmis in premiera, live si in timp real nominalizarile la Premiile Oscar.
Nominalizari Oscar 2008 Cel mai bun film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Actrita in rol secundar Amy Adams (Doubt) Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) Viola Davis (Doubt) Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler) Actor in rol secundar Josh Brolin (Milk) >Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder) Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt) Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight) Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) Actrita in rol principal Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married) Angelina Jolie (Changeling) Melissa Leo (Frozen River) Meryl Streep (Doubt) Kate Winslet (The Reader) Actor in rol principal Richard Jenkins (The Visitor) Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon) Sean Penn (Milk) Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) Regie David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon) Gus Van Sant (Milk) Stephen Daldry (The Reader) Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) Scenariu original Courtney Hunt (Frozen River) Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky) Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) Dustin Lance Black (Milk) Andrew Stanton (WALLE) Scenariu adaptat Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon) David Hare (The Reader) Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) Film strain Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (Germania) Entre les murs (Franta) Departures (Japonia) Revanche (Austria) Waltz with Bashir (Israel) Animatie lung metraj Bolt Kung Fu Panda WALLE
Scenografie James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis (Changeling) Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando (The Dark Knight) Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway (The Duchess) Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt (Revolutionary Road)
Imagine Tom Stern (The Changeling) Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight) Chris Menges, Roger Deakins (The Reader) Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Costume Catherine Martin (Australia) Jacqueline West (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Michael OConnor (The Duchess) Danny Glicker (Milk) Albert Wolsky (Revolutionary Road)
Documentar lung metraj The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) - Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser The Garden - Scott Hamilton Kennedy Man on Wire - James Marsh, Simon Chinn Trouble the Water - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Documentar scurt metraj The Conscience of Nhem En - Steven Okazaki The Final Inch - Irene Taylor Brodsky, Tom Grant Smile Pinki - Megan Mylan The Witness - Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde
Montaj Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Lee Smith (The Dark Knight) Mike Hill, Dan Hanley (Frost/Nixon), Elliot Graham (Milk) Chris Dickens (Slumdog Millionaire)
Machiaj Greg Cannom (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) John Caglione, Jr., Conor OSullivan (The Dark Knight) Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz (Hellboy II: The Golden Army)
Muzica originala Down to Earth din WALLE Muzica Peter Gabriel si Thomas Newman, Versurile Peter Gabriel Jai Ho din Slumdog Millionaire Muzica A.R. Rahman, Versurile Gulzar O Saya din Slumdog Millionaire Muzica si versurile A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam
Coloana sonora Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button James Newton Howard - Defiance Danny Elfman - Milk A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire Thomas Newman - WALLE
Scurt metraj animat La Maison en Petits Cubes - Kunio Kato Lavatory - Lovestory - Konstantin Bronzit Oktapodi - Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand Presto - Doug Sweetland This Way Up - Alan Smith, Adam Foulkes
Scurt metraj Auf der Strecke (On the Line) - Reto Caffi Manon on the Asphalt - Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont New Boy - Steph Green, Tamara Anghie The Pig - Tivi Magnusson, Dorte Hgh Spielzeugland (Toyland) - Jochen Alexander Freydank
Efecte sonore David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick (The Dark Knight) Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty (Slumdog Millionaire) Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt (WALLE) Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montano, Petr Forejt (Wanted)
Montaj sonor Richard King (The Dark Knight) Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes (Iron Man) Tom Dayers (Slumdog Millionaire) Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood (WALLE) Wylie Stateman (Wanted)
Efecte vizuale Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin (The Dark Knight) John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan (Iron Man)