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List of Academy Award 2009 winner

Performance by an actor in a leading role
* Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
* Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)

Best animated feature film of the year
* “WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton

Achievement in art direction
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo

Achievement in cinematography
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Anthony Dod Mantle

Achievement in costume design
* “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films), Michael O’Connor

Achievement in directing
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Danny Boyle

Best documentary feature
* “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films Production, James Marsh and Simon Chinn

Best documentary short subject
* “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production, Megan Mylan

Achievement in film editing
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Chris Dickens

Best foreign language film of the year
* “Departures” (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production, Japan

Achievement in makeup
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Greg Cannom

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A.R. Rahman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
* “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar

Best motion pictures of the year
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production, Christian Colson, Producer

Best animated short film
* “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production, Kunio Kato

Best live action short film
* “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production, Jochen Alexander Freydank

Achievement in sound editing
* “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.), Richard King

Achievement in sound mixing
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty

Achievement in visual effects
* “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.), Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron

Adapted screenplay
* “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay
* “Milk” (Focus Features), Written by Dustin Lance Black

based on www.oscars.org