2009 Academy Awards Winners

Here is the full list of the Oscars 2009 winners:



Best Picture :

"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight- Christian Colson, producer)

Lead Actor:

Sean Penn in "Milk" (Focus Features)

Lead Actress:

Kate Winslet in "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)

Director:

Danny Boyle for "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

Foreign Language Film:

"Departures" - Japan (Director Yojiro Takita-Regent Releasing)

Best Supporting Actor:

Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros)

Supporting Actress:

Penelope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company)

Original Screenplay:

Dustin Lance Black for "Milk"(Focus Features)

Adapted Screenplay:

Simon Beaufoy for "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

Best Animated Feature:

Andrew Stanton for "WALL-E" (Walt Disney)

Best Animated Short Film:

Kunio Kato for "La Maison en Petits Cubes" (A Robot Communications Production)

Art Direction:

Donald Graham Burt for art direction and Victor J. Zolfo (In the Picture) for set decoration on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros)

Costume Design:

Michael O'Connor for "The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathe and BBC Films)

Makeup:

Greg Cannom for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros)

Cinematography:

Anthony Dod Mantle for "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

Live Action Short Film:

Jochen Alexander Freydank for "Spielzeugland (Toyland)", a Mephisto Film production

Documentary feature:

James Marsh (Right) and Simon Chinn (Left) for "Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures)

Documentary short:

Megan Mylan for "Smile Pinki", a Principle production

Visual effects:

Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros)

Sound Editing:

Richard King for "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros)

Sound Mixing:

Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty for "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

Film Editing:

Chris Dickens for "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

Original Score:

A.R. Rahman for "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)

Original Song:

"Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight), music by A.R. Rahman, lyrics by Gulzar