The following are the nominations for the 81st Oscar Awards which is to be presented in a month's time.

Best actor :

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

Best actress :

Kate Winslet (The Reader)
Meryl Streep (Doubt)
Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Angelina Jolie (Changeling)
Melissa Leo (Frozen River)

Best director :

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

Best picture :

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

Best music written for motion pictures – original score:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
Defiance – James Newton Howard
Milk – Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire – A.R. Rahman
WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Best music written for motion pictures - original song:

'Down to Earth' from WALL-E – music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, lyric by Peter Gabriel
'Jai Ho' from Slumdog Millionaire – music by A.R. Rahman, lyric by Gulzar
'O Saya' from Slumdog Millionaire – music and lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best adapted screenplay:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – screenplay by Eric Roth, screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
Doubt – written by John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon – screenplay by Peter Morgan
The Reader – screenplay by David Hare
Slumdog Millionaire – screenplay by Simon Beaufoy