What movies were nominated for Best Picture in 2009?

What movies were nominated for Best Picture in 2009?

Best Picture

• Slumdog Millionaire. Christian Colson, Producer.
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
• Frost/Nixon. Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers.
• Milk. Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers.
• The Reader.

Who was Heath Ledger up against for the Oscar?

Ledger was nominated in the Best Actor category but lost to “Capote” star Philip Seymour Hoffman. Gyllenhaal lost to George Clooney in “Syriana” for Best Supporting Actor. “Brokeback Mountain” marked the first Oscar nominations for both actors.

Did Slumdog Millionaire win Best Picture?

At the 20th Producers Guild of America Awards, Slumdog Millionaire won for Best Theatrical Motion Picture. The film received six nominations at the 14th Critics’ Choice Awards and won five awards including Best Picture. In addition, the National Board of Review named it the Best Film of 2008.

How many Oscars did Amadeus receive?

eight Oscars
The film won eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Abraham), Best Director (Forman), Costume Design (Theodor Pištěk), Adapted Screenplay (Shaffer), Art Direction (Karel Černý, Patrizia von Brandenstein), Best Makeup, and Best Sound.

How many Oscars did Titanic receive?

11 wins
Their efforts were rewarded with 14 Oscar nominations and 11 wins including Best Picture, and the film has remained a home video favorite in addition to spawning a major theatrical rerelease.

Who are the nominees for the Oscars in 2009?

Oscars 2009: All the nominees ”Benjamin Button” and ”Slumdog Millionaire” lead with 13 and 10 nominations, respectively; Heath Ledger gets a Best Supporting Actor nod, but ”The Dark Knight” snubbed in Best Picture and Best Director categories

When did they announce the nominees for the Academy Awards?

The telecast garnered almost 37 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced on January 22, 2009, at 5:38 p.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Sid Ganis, president of the Academy, and the actor Forest Whitaker.

How many nominations did movies get in 2008?

Among the rest of the top 50 releases of 2008 in U.S. box office before the nominations, 33 nominations went to nine films on the list.

When did the 81st Academy Awards take place?

81st Academy Awards. The 81st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2008 and took place on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST.