Academy Awards 2009
Overview of all award-winning films
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Other events
| Movie | N | A. |
|---|---|---|
| The strange case of Benjamin Button | 13 | 3 |
| Slumdog millionaire | 10 | 8th |
| Milk | 8th | 2 |
| The Dark Knight | 8th | 2 |
| WALL · E - The last one is cleaning up the earth | 6th | 1 |
| The Reader | 5 | 1 |
| Frost / Nixon | 5 | 0 |
| Question of faith | 5 | 0 |
| The foreign son | 3 | 0 |
| Times of turmoil | 3 | 0 |
| The Duchess | 2 | 1 |
| Frozen River | 2 | 0 |
| Iron man | 2 | 0 |
| The Wrestler - fame, love, pain | 2 | 0 |
| Wanted | 2 | 0 |
The 2009 Academy Awards took place on February 22, 2009 at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles . Together with the 2015 Academy Awards, it was the earliest Academy Awards held in a year to date. It was the 81st presentation of the Academy Awards since it was first presented in 1929 . In the year of the Academy Awards, awards are always given to films from the previous year, in this case the films from 2008 . As the Academy announced at the end of December 2008, 281 films qualified for a nomination in the Best Picture category .
responsible
On December 12, 2008, the Academy appointed Australian actor Hugh Jackman to host the Oscargala, who hosted the evening on February 22, 2009 and performed a musical number live. The award ceremony was produced by Laurence Mark and Bill Condon ; Michael Giacchino was the musical director that year.
Key data
From December 26, 2008 to January 12, 2009, the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were able to submit their nominations by category (cameramen for cameramen, directors for directors). These were announced on January 22, 2009. A total of 27 different films were nominated. The winners, who will be determined by the members of the Academy , were announced at the festive gala on February 22, 2009.
Favorite films
The nominations were announced in Beverly Hills on January 22, 2009 by Sid Ganis , President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , and Oscar-winning American actor Forest Whitaker . As expected, Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire won the award ceremony as the most successful film of the year . The drama, highly praised by critics as the Indian variant of Oliver Twist , focuses on a young Indian (played by Dev Patel ) from the slums of Mumbai . He gets the chance to be a candidate in the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? to occur. The film won eight out of ten possible awards, in addition to the Best Film category, among other awards, the awards for best director, camera and best screenplay. The literary film adaptation, The Strange Case of Benjamin Button by David Fincher , won only three prizes in secondary categories. The drama about a man who ages backwards is based on the story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald and had led the field of favorites ahead of Slumdog Millionaire with thirteen mentions . The two political dramas Milk (8 nominations, 2 prizes) and Frost / Nixon (5 nominations, no prize) by US directors Ron Howard and Gus Van Sant as well as Stephen Daldry's literary adaptation The Reader (5 nominations , 1st Prize).
Christopher Nolan's Batman film adaptation, The Dark Knight , which was nominated eight times for a trophy, had almost only been considered in technical categories beforehand and won the award for the best sound editing. Heath Ledger , who died in January 2008, was also awarded the Oscar , which is the second posthumous prize since it was awarded to Peter Finch in 1977 . For his performance as Joker Ledger had already received several awards in the current American film award season, including the Golden Globe. His family accepted the award on their behalf. As expected, the British Kate Winslet prevailed as the best leading actress, who had competed for the film award five times in vain in the past. For her role as Hanna Schmitz in Der Vorleser , she was able to leave the American Meryl Streep behind, who had received her fifteenth nomination for her portrait of a malicious nun on the question of faith and is thus the most nominated actress at the Academy Awards. Sean Penn won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as gay politician and civil rights activist Harvey Milk . It was the second award for Penn after winning the 2004 Oscar for Mystic River . Among other things, he prevailed against the co-favorite Golden Globe winner Mickey Rourke ( The Wrestler ). Penélope Cruz was the first Spanish actress to receive an Oscar. Her supporting role in Woody Allen's comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona was honored .
Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof Complex from Germany and Götz Spielmann's Revenche from Austria were among the five candidates for the best foreign language film of the year . The RAF drama and the crime film competed for the Oscar together with Laurent Cantet's Goldene Palme prize winner Die Klasse from France and the documentary animated film Waltz with Bashir by Israeli Ari Folman , but had a share of the Japanese entry Nokan - Die Kunst des Ausklangs (English-language Title Departures ) by Yōjirō Takita losing out. Japan was able to secure the award after eleven unsuccessful nominations. On the other hand, the Berlin up-and-coming director Jochen Alexander Freydank won the prize in the Best Short Film category for Toy Land , in which the Swiss Reto Caffi ( On the Line ) was also represented. The German director Werner Herzog competed unsuccessfully with his Antarctic documentary Encounters at the End of the World in the category of Best Documentary .
The award-winning portrayal of British actress Sally Hawkins ( Happy-Go-Lucky ), who was awarded the Golden Globe for best comedy actress, could not achieve a nomination in advance . Even Clint Eastwood did for his age role of a disgruntled war veterans in Gran Torino denied an Oscar nomination. Likewise, could Bruce Springsteen with his Golden Globe-winning song for The Wrestler not place among the three nominated film songs. On the other hand, Sam Mendes ' drama Times of Turmoil , for which Kate Winslet had received the Golden Globe for best drama actress, came with only three nominations in secondary categories, but remained unprivileged. Winslet was preferred for her role in The Reader .
Winners and nominees
Best movie
presented by Steven Spielberg
Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire) - Christian Colson
- Frost / Nixon - Eric Fellner , Brian Grazer , Ron Howard
- Milk - Bruce Cohen , Dan Jinks
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) - Ceán Chaffin , Kathleen Kennedy , Frank Marshall
- The Reader (The Reader) - Donna Gigliotti , Anthony Minghella , Redmond Morris , Sydney Pollack
Best director
presented by Reese Witherspoon
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)
- Stephen Daldry - The Reader
- David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Ron Howard - Frost / Nixon
- Gus Van Sant - Milk
Best Actor
presented by Adrien Brody , Robert De Niro , Michael Douglas , Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley
- Richard Jenkins - A Summer in New York - The Visitor (The Visitor)
- Frank Langella - Frost / Nixon
- Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler - Fame, Love, Pain (The Wrestler)
Best main actress
presented by Halle Berry , Marion Cotillard , Nicole Kidman , Sophia Loren and Shirley MacLaine
Kate Winslet - The Reader (The Reader)
- Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married (Rachel Getting Married)
- Angelina Jolie - The Stranger Son (Changeling)
- Melissa Leo - Frozen River
- Meryl Streep - Question of Faith (Doubt)
Best supporting actor
presented by Alan Arkin , Cuba Gooding Jr. , Joel Gray , Kevin Kline and Christopher Walken
Heath Ledger ( posthumous ) - The Dark Knight
(Received from Ledger's family)
- Josh Brolin - Milk
- Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Question of Faith (Doubt)
- Michael Shannon - Times of Turmoil (Revolutionary Road)
The best supporting actress
presented by Whoopi Goldberg , Goldie Hawn , Anjelica Huston , Eva Marie Saint and Tilda Swinton
Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Amy Adams - Faith Question (Doubt)
- Viola Davis - Question of Faith (Doubt)
- Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler - Fame, Love, Pain (The Wrestler)
Best original script
presented by Tina Fey and Steve Martin
- Courtney Hunt - Frozen River
- Mike Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky
- Martin McDonagh - See Bruges ... and die? (In Bruges)
- Jim Reardon , Andrew Stanton - WALL E - The last one cleans up the earth (WALL-E)
Best adapted script
presented by Tina Fey and Steve Martin
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)
- David Hare - The Reader (The Reader)
- Peter Morgan - Frost / Nixon
- Eric Roth , Robin Swicord - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- John Patrick Shanley - Question of Faith (Doubt)
Best camera
presented by Natalie Portman and Ben Stiller
Anthony Dod Mantle - Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)
- Roger Deakins , Chris Menges - Der Vorleser (The Reader)
- Claudio Miranda - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Wally Pfister - The Dark Knight
- Tom Stern - The Stranger Son (Changeling)
Best production design
presented by Sarah Jessica Parker and Daniel Craig
Donald Graham Burt , Victor J. Zolfo - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Rebecca Alleway , Michael Carlin - The Duchess (The Duchess)
- Nathan Crowley , Peter Lando - The Dark Knight
- Gary Fettis , James J. Murakami - The Strange Son (Changeling)
- Debra Schutt , Kristi Zea - Times of Turmoil (Revolutionary Road)
Best costume design
presented by Sarah Jessica Parker and Daniel Craig
Michael O'Connor - The Duchess (The Duchess)
- Danny Glicker - Milk
- Catherine Martin - Australia
- Jacqueline West - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Albert Wolsky - Times of Turmoil (Revolutionary Road)
Best makeup
presented by Sarah Jessica Parker and Daniel Craig
Greg Cannom - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- John Caglione Junior , Conor O'Sullivan - The Dark Knight
- Mike Elizalde , Thom Floutz - Hellboy - The Golden Army (Hellboy II: The Golden Army)
Best film score
presented by Alicia Keys and Zac Efron
AR Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)
- Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Danny Elfman - Milk
- James Newton Howard - Unyielding - Defiance (Defiance)
- Thomas Newman - WALL E - The last one cleans up the earth (WALL-E)
Best song
presented by Alicia Keys and Zac Efron
"Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire) - Gulzar , AR Rahman
- "Down to Earth" from WALL · E - The last one cleans up the earth (WALL-E) - Peter Gabriel , Thomas Newman
- "O Saya" from Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire) - MIA , AR Rahman
Best cut
presented by Will Smith
Chris Dickens - Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)
- Kirk Baxter , Angus Wall - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Elliot Graham - Milk
- Daniel P. Hanley , Mike Hill - Frost / Nixon
- Lee Smith - The Dark Knight
Best tone
presented by Will Smith
Resul Pookutty , Richard Pryke , Ian Tapp - Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)
- Ben Burtt , Matthew Wood - WALL E - The last one cleans up the earth (WALL-E)
- Lora Hirschberg , Ed Novick , Gary Rizzo - The Dark Knight
- Ren Klyce , David Parker , Michael Semanick , Mark Weingarten - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Wylie Stateman - Wanted
Best sound editing
presented by Will Smith
Richard King - The Dark Knight
- Christopher Boyes , Frank Eulner - Iron Man
- Ben Burtt , Tom Myers , Michael Semanick - WALL E - The last one cleans up the earth (WALL-E)
- Petr Forejt , Chris Jenkins , Frank A. Montaño - Wanted
- Glenn Freemantle , Tom Sayers - Slumdog Millionaire (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best visual effects
presented by Will Smith
Eric Barba , Craig Barron , Burt Dalton , Steve Preeg - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
- Chris Corbould , Nick Davis , Paul Franklin , Tim Webber - The Dark Knight
- Shane Mahan , John Nelson , Ben Snow , Daniel Sudick - Iron Man
Best animated film
presented by Jennifer Aniston and Jack Black
WALL · E - The last one is cleaning up the earth (WALL-E) - Andrew Stanton
- Bolt - for all cases (Bolt) - Byron Howard , Chris Williams
- Kung Fu Panda - Mark Osborne , John Stevenson
Best animated short film
presented by Jennifer Aniston and Jack Black
- Lavatory love story - Konstantin Eduardowitsch Bronsit
- Oktapodi - Thierry Marchand , Emud Mokhberi
- Presto - Doug Sweetland
- This Way Up - Smith & Foulkes
Best short film
presented by James Franco , Janusz Kamiński and Seth Rogen
Toyland (Toyland) - Jochen Alexander Freydank (Germany)
- On the route - Reto Caffi (Switzerland)
- Grisen - Dorte Warnø Høgh and Tivi Magnusson (Denmark)
- Manon sur le bitume - Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont (France)
- New Boy - Steph Green and Tamara Anghie (Ireland)
Best documentary
presented by Bill Maher
Man on Wire - Simon Chinn , James Marsh
- Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog , Henry Kaiser
- The Betrayal - Nerakhoon (Nerakhoon) - Ellen Kuras , Thavisouk Phrasavath
- The Garden - Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Trouble the Water - Carl Deal , Tia Lessin
Best documentary short film
presented by Bill Maher
- The Conscience of Nhem En - Steven Okazaki
- The Final Inch - Irene Taylor Brodsky , Tom Grant
- The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306 - Margaret Hyde , Adam Pertofsky
Best foreign language film
presented by Freida Pinto and Liam Neeson
Nokan - The Art of Ending (Okuribito) , Japan - Yōjirō Takita
- The Baader Meinhof Complex , Germany - Uli Edel
- The class (Entre les murs) , France - Laurent Cantet
- Revenge , Austria - Götz Spielmann
- Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) , Israel - Ari Folman
Prizes of honor
Comedian Jerry Lewis was honored for his humanitarian service with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award presented to him by Eddie Murphy . Lewis has been a champion of the Muscular Dystrophy Association , an organization to combat muscular dystrophy , since the 1950s and has hosted the annual telethons on US television since 1966 .
Four-time Oscar winner Edwin Catmull received the Gordon E. Sawyer Award . Computer scientist Catmull is co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and a leader in the development of computer graphics in the film industry. The prize was awarded on February 7, 2009, two weeks before the actual Academy Awards, as part of the award ceremony for science and technology.
Individual evidence
- ↑ oscars.org: http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2008/08.12.29.html 281 Feature Films in Competition for 2008 Oscar® of December 29, 2008, accessed December 30, 2008
- ↑ seitenblicke.at: Hugh Jackman guides us through the Oscar night on December 12, 2008, accessed on December 12, 2008
- ↑ oscars.org: Key Dates Announced for 81st Academy Awards® April 14, 2008, accessed September 17, 2008
- ↑ cf. Macnab, Geoffrey: Oliver Twisted as Boyle goes 'Trainspotting' in modern Mumbai express . In: The Independent , October 31, 2008, p. 16
- ↑ cf. Sengupta, Somini: Extreme Mumbai, Without Bollywood's Filtered Lens . In: The New York Times , November 16, 2008, Arts and Leisure Desk, p. 14
- ↑ cf. Ebert, Roger : 'Millionaire' a rich tale of a vibrant new India . In: Chicago Sun-Times, November 12, 2008, p. 40
- ↑ Jerry Lewis to Receive Hersholt Humanitarian Award at 81st Academy Awards , AMPAS press release of December 10, 2008.
- ^ Academy to Honor Ed Catmull with Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar , AMPAS press release of January 6, 2009.
Web links
- Web presence for the 2009 Academy Awards (English)
- Oscars 2009 in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official shortlist of foreign language feature films with English titles
- Compilation of the press for the Oscar 2009 on film-zeit.de (German)