Nominees are ranked in order of preference.
BEST PICTURE
Winner
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Nominees
WALL•E
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Chop Shop
Doubt
BEST DIRECTOR
Winner
Kurt Kuenne – Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Nominees
Andrew Stanton – WALL•E
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Ramin Bahrani – Chop Shop
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Winner
Alejandro Polanco – Chop Shop
Nominees
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Sam Rockwell – Snow Angels
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Winner
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Nominees
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Jess Weixler – Teeth
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Winner
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Nominees
Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
John Malkovich – Burn After Reading
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Winner
Amy Adams – Doubt
Nominees
Viola Davis – Doubt
Vera Farmiga – Nothing But the Truth
Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Kristen Bell – Forgetting Sarah Marshall
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Sample of winning score linked to film title
Winner
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Nominees
Milk
Changeling
WALL•E
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Winner
“Inside of You” (Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
Nominees
“Gran Torino” (Gran Torino)
“The Wrestler” (The Wrestler)
“Another Way to Die” (Quantum of Solace)
“We’ve Got to Do Something” (Forgetting Sarah Marshall)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Winner
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Nominees
Trouble the Water
Encounters at the End of the World
Bigger Stronger Faster*
Young at Heart
BEST ENSEMBLE
Winner
Chop Shop
Nominees
Doubt
Burn After Reading
Rachel Getting Married
Milk
Winners in the remaining categories
BEST FILM EDITING
Quantum of Solace
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WALL•E
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Doubt
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
WALL•E
BEST ART DIRECTION
Changeling
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Quantum of Solace
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Let the Right One In
BEST SOUND EDITING
WALL•E
BEST SOUND MIXING
WALL•E
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
