In urma cu un sfert de ora au fost anuntate nominalizarile la premiile Oscar. Cateva surprize ar fi neincluderea lui Gran Torino in categoria de interpretare masculina, acolo unde apare Richard Jenkins pentru rolul din filmul independent  The Visitor. De asemenea Kate Winslet este nominalizata la categoria cel mai bun rol principal, dar nu pentru prestatia din Revolutionary Road, ci pentru cea din The Reader, pentru care a fost sustinuta puternic de catre producatori. Melissa Leo a fost si ea inclusa pe lista de cinci nominalizari, iar Josh Brolin, care a fost uitat de Globurile de Aur este nominalizat pentru rolul secundar din Milk. Cititi in continuare toate nominalizarile.

Cel mai bun film

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Milk
• The Reader
• Frost/Nixon

Cel mai bun actor in rol principal

• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
• Sean Penn – Milk
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Cea mai buna actrita in rol principal

• Kate Winslet – The Reader
• Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
• Meryl Streep – Doubt
• Angelina Jolie – Changeling
• Melissa Leo – Frozen River

Cel mai bun actor in rol secundar

• Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Josh Brolin – Milk
• Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Cea mai buna actrita in rol secundar

• Viola Davis – Doubt
• Amy Adams – Doubt
• Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
• Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Cel mai bun regizor

• David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Gus Van Sant – Milk
• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
• Stephen Daldry – The Reader
• Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon

Cel mai bun scenariu original

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

Cel mai bun scenariu adaptat

• Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
• Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth, Robin Swicord
• The Reader – David Hare
• Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

Cel mai bun film strain

• Entre les murs – Franta
• Der Baader Meinhof Komplex – Germania
• Departures – Japonia
• Revanche – Austria
• Waltz with Bashir – Israel

Cel mai bun film de animatie

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• WALL-E

Cea mai buna imagine

• Changeling – Tom Stern
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Claudio Miranda
• The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
• The Reader – Roger Deakins, Chris Menges
• Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle

Cel mai bun montaj

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk

Cea mai buna scenografie

• Changeling
• The Duchess
• The Curious Case of Benajamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Revolutionary Road

Cele mai bune costume

• Australia
• The Duchess
• Milk
• Revolutionary Road
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Cel mai bun machiaj

• The Dark Knight
• Hellboy II : The Golden Army
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Cea mai buna coloana sonora

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
• Slumdog Millionaire – A.R. Rahman
• Defiance – James Newton Howard
• Milk – Danny Elfman
• WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Cel mai bun cantec original

• Slumdog Millionaire – A.R. Rahman, Gulzar
• Slumdog Millionaire – A.R. Rahman, M.I.A.
• WALL-E – Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman

Cel mai bun sunet

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL-E
• Wanted

Cel mai bun mixaj de sunet

• The Dark Knight
• Iron Man
• Slumdog Millionaire
• WALL-E
• Wanted

Cele mai bune efecte vizuale

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Iron Man