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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• WALL-E

• Revanche (Austria)
• The Class (France)
• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
• Departures (Japan)
• Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

• La Maison En Petits Cubes
• Lavatory - Lovestory
• Oktapodi
• Presto
• This Way Up

• Changeling - James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
• The Dark Knight - Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
• The Duchess - Michael Carlin, Rebecca Alleway
• Revolutionary Road - Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt

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

• Australia - Catherine Martin
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jacqueline West
• The Duchess - Michael O'Connor
• Milk - Danny Glicker
• Revolutionary Road - Albert Wolsky

Best Documentary Feature

• Nerakhoon
• Encounters at the End of the World
• The Garden
• Man On Wire
• Trouble the Water

Best Documentary Short

• The Conscience of Nhem En
• The Final Inch
• Smile Pinki
• The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

Best Film Editing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
• The Dark Knight - Lee Smith
• Frost/Nixon - Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
• Milk - Elliot Graham
• Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens

Best Live Action Short

• On the Line
• Manon On the Asphalt
• New Boy
• The Pig
• Toyland

Best Makeup