BEST PICTURE
Changeling
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
The Wrestler
Wall-E
**Slumdog Millionaire

BEST DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
**Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon

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

BEST ACTRESS
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
**Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married (Tie)
Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kate Beckinsale – Nothing But the Truth
Melissa Leo – Frozen River
**Meryl Streep – Doubt (Tie)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

**Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
James Franco – Milk
Josh Brolin – Milk
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
**Kate Winslet – The Reader
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Vera Farmiga – Nothing But the Truth
Viola Davis – Doubt

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Brandon Walters – Australia
Dakota Fanning – The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross – The Reader
**Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
**Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Dark Knight

BEST WRITER
Dustin Lance Black – Milk
Eric Roth – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon
**Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaireg Millionaire