Complete List of 2009 Oscar Nominees

I can hear the impending wrath of the fanboys…

Luckily dark knight was not nominated but the revolutionary road snub is awful.

Wow – the British films have done well – Slumdog Millionaire is great, as is The Reader.

What the hell?! No TDK love? This is why nobody watches the Oscars because they refuse to nominate great movies that the general public love. And once again it shows that Weinstein knows how to buy votes to get his movies Oscars this is BS!!!

Will . Yeah the general public like, but imagine if it was like that instead of nominating art like movies . Thats right it would be the MTV awards

Best picture

The dark knight
Iron Man
The increadible hulk
Saw 5

Im just shaking thinking about it .

Well the oscars had a chance to gain the ratings and respect of the public again by nominating TDK and what do they do? Just ignore this golden chance and go into safe crappy movie about Nazis territory. Lets just be happy Ledger got his nomination.
P.S Also pissed that Sally Hawkins got screwed over for Angelina Jolie

I called The Dark Knight snubbing – Thank GOD! – but no Clint? Gran Torino for nothing?! And I'm sorry The Reader was trash: Weinstein, Oscar-baiting, It's-a-Holocaust-movie-so-we-have-to-nominate-it TRASH! If Winslet wins, it will have been for the wrong film. But since they nominated her for The Reader, I think the award is Hathaway's.

Hurray! Richard Jenkins was nominated. I would dearly love it if he won but admit that he's a long shot.

well, I'm Glad Kate Winslett did not get nominated for 101 awards again ! There's nothing supporting about her role in THE READER, and I watched REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, and trust me, it's not as good as Kate fans would like it to be … I also watched Doubt and know that Meryl will win, finally after 26 years !

Yeah, I suppose I should be mildyl happy, since outside of Wall-E and Frozen River for best original screenplay, nothing was outside of my top 8 for each category.

I don't understand what was so special in Frost/Nixon to get a nod ahead of TDK..:(

quite sad great cate wasnt nominated but 13 nominations for ben button is awesome!

i thought 'happy go lucky' was one of the worst films ive ever seen. and this is from someone who loves mike leigh. 'naked' had a huge effect on me growing up. but this film was terrible. i was speechless. i cant believe there was a direct quote about the '666 barcode' in it – lifted directly from one of his own films!
the opening on the bike, and then the last terrible scene on the boat – all ADR – were two of the worst scenes ever. i never usually bother commenting on these things as im busy with my own work. but this film was so bad i almost thought it was going to be a mockumantary half way through and Leigh had been playing us…

what you guys think?

This is awful. Dark kKnight should have made best picture instead of the overrated Milk and way too overrated Frost/Nixon. Also it is really sad to see that Bruce Springsteen missed out on the original song category. That is ridiculous!!

The only thing that will please me now is if Button kicks ass of the Slumdog!

I'm extremely happy In Bruges and Michael Shannon got nominations. I'm a little shocked Vicky Cristina Barcelona failed to get nominated for Best Original Screenplay.

I really disliked Revolutionary so I am glad that got the snub in most of the biggies. I liked the Reader a lot, but believe the Dark Knight was a landmark film and should of gotten a best picture nom.

Oh my God! They've snubbed "The Dark Knight"! The ONE film that rekindled my love for the movies (not to mention it broke box-office records and was critically acclaimed), and the Academy snubbed it. It was the BEST picture of 2008 because it was so damn exciting and it had such an excellent story. It wasn't doused in intellectual melodramatics either. Oh, they've also snubbed "Gran Torino". Grr… The Academy should go f*** itself (but then again they f*** themselves every years).

On the plus side, I'm excited to see Taraji P. Henson (who was the ONLY redeeming factor to the over-rated "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"), Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Mickey Rourke, Robert Downey Jr., Angelina Jolie, Anne Hathaway and (most of all) Heath Ledger nominated. Heath Ledger, of course, trumps EVERY performance nominated, and it'll be years until I see a performance as good as his. I do hope that Danny Boyle wins Best Director and "Slumdog Millionaire" wins Best Picture, but I wish that would've been Christopher Nolan's and "The Dark Knight" win. Also I'm excited to see "Australia" (which I loved) with a nomination for Best Costume Design (but it won't win).

In all honesty, I would have loved to have seen Will Smith and Rosario Dawson nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress. Dawson's performance in "Seven Pounds" is so unappreciated and overlooked. It was a sincere and sublime performance, and I'm quite impressed with her. In my opinion, her performance overshadows the nominees for Best Actress. Go Rosario Dawson!

They snubbed springsteen !! WTF?!

Not seen Slumdog, but love M.I.A., so I heard "O Saya" and my god what a good song. I might have to find more music from A.R. Rahman.

Where the hell is TDK??????

It was just as good as Slumdog Millioaire. And how come In Bruges didnt get any more respect and i hope it wins original screenplay. The Reader looks good, but not best picture worthy. AR Rahman is a true inspiration to all Indians. I hope he wins and Slumdog Millionaire wins best picture.

You cannot believe how happy i am that Kate Winslet got the nomination for The Reader and NOT revolutionary road.. i was campaigning for it and no one would agree with me.. the oscar voters knew it was the better performance and the better film hence also being pleased with its best film nom.. The Reader is a beautiful, moving and thought provoking film that deserves those nominations.
VERY pleased that Doubt got its 4 acting nominations, Meryl, Philip, Amy and Viola deserve them. And MERYL OSCAR no3 PLEASE!
expected the academy to like Angelina.. they do like the insane house films.. Melissa Leo tho.. no.
Did love Ben Button even tho so many don't but so too love slumdog… so they should fight it out :D but SM should NOT be aloud a clean sweep

"I guess Bolt just gets nominated because they need 3??? Why else would it be there?"

Apparently the Academy voters with their short-term memories forgot all about a flick called 'Horton Hears a Who' released early in the year.

I'm a bit disappointed neither Colin Farrell nor Brendan Gleeson made it into the actor/supporting actor categories, i thought they both were brilliant in 'In Bruges'. Glad to see the screenplay nominated though… Other than that nothing really surprised me.

i am sad that TDK has failed to make the cut.the British films have done well this year..well i still remember couple of years back when Elen De Genres said in the Oscar ceremony that "you dont know who is going to win unless you are British and then you know you have a pretty good shot!!"lolzz..atleast TDK should have been nominated for Best Picture and Nolan for Best Director…thank god Clint Eastwood was not nominated for Best Actor…Gran Torino was a great movie but it was more like a Bollywood flick of Amitabh Bachchan wrapped in Hollywood Plastic!!!But i am happy to see Slumdog Millionaire making it big in terms of nominations….people here in India are very happy to see it getting nominated for Oscar….it was almost 3 decades ago when Gandhi was nominated for Oscar….that was the last time a movie on Indian subject won all the top awards…
though i always felt Dustin Hoffman was more deserving winner for Tootsie than Ben Kingsley as Gandhi…..thanks to the editor of the portal-Brad Brevet for keeping all the nominations and letting us know abt the contenders….thankxx Brad….it's seems that A.R.Rahman will win the award for Original Score and best song…but how in the earth can Bruce Springsteen miss out a nomination for The Wrestler…i mean thats absurd….is it a tactics to give Slumdog another extra award???
In the supporting actor category Heath Ledger is surely going to win but can we have a tie this year coz Rob Downey jnr. was brilliant in Tropic Thunder….we must have a tie this year…it has happened in the past…why not this time…this is RDJ's comeback year with a solid performance in Iron Man and TT…hope it's a tie there….hey Brad what do you think…is there any chance of a tie???
In the Animated film category WALL-E will win for sure and i also expect it to win the Original Screenplay award….lastly i think Waltz with Bashir will win the award in Foreign Language category……..

Commenting solely on Best Original Song because it's the one category that really shocked me… freakin' yes, O… Saya got nominated! It's the one song that managed to catch my attention, probably due to M.I.A.'s involvement. I'm surprised at Springsteen's snub, especially since I'd give the nomination to The Wrestler over Jai Ho, but eh…

You know what, hollywood asked for it I'm egging Tom Hanks' house. If we get the academy where it hurts that will show them to screw over fans royally.

Brad Pitt getting a nomination? That's a good call. Taraji P. Henson? Also a good call. Best Picture and Best Director? That's too much of a stretch. Especially when you are placing them above Christopher Nolan and The Dark Knight. And this isn't even a fanboy talking. It's just boggling that a great movie, with several, not just one, but several great plot twists not get nominated for best picture. Not to mention a director, who found a way to do such a complicated movie with such precise actions scenes, with IMAX cameras, and as little CGI as possible.

This is just a bad list all-around with some major pooch-screwing going on. The snubbings of Dark Knight, Eastwood, Springsteen, the Coen brothers and Woody Allen for screenplay, and the Acting brnach essentially snubbing Winslet for herself … it's a strange list and I fear Oscar is inching toward irrelevance by doing things like this. The fact awards shows like the Globes and the Critics Choice Awards seem to be closing in on the amount of buzz they get compared to the Oscars the Academy really needs to do something. They need to overhaul the voting system because the acting branch has way too much power to dictate picture nominees with about 15% of the entire membership (and are we really supposed to believe there are only 8,000 people alive worthy of being voting members of the Academy?) The voting membership is becoming more and more of a nitch group than a group acknowledging overall excellence in movies.

Good to see some love for Melissa Leo, Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon. Dissapointed not to see Dark Knight in the top category's. Overall this was a miss year by the academy imo.

Nominating the Reader (60% on rotten tomatoes, dudes. That's prettys shitty) was an excuse not to nominate Wall-e and TDK. Okay, I'm going to have to cool it now, otherwise my Academy hatred will rise up again.

You have to wonder what these academy awards people are like peronsally.

And in terms of Heath Ledger, sadly the only reason he was nominated this year was because he played a cowboy in a movie that those academy award people loved a couple years ago.

I didn't think TDK was the best movie I saw last year but it was one of the top ones. Really, are these Academy award people those same people you see at Starbucks on their macbooks writing HiKu's?

Best song for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE : "JAI HO", and Original Score, of course!!!