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 as Harvey Milk

• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button
• Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino as Walt Kowalski
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard 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 as Christine 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 as Joker

• James Franco – Milk as Scott Smith
• Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan 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 as Jamal 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 and James 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