Hearts of the World (1918)

“Made as a Propaganda movie to promote the entering of America into the Great War, it was released when the war was already won.
As a Propaganda piece It fails: I found myself often rooting for the Huns. Only Dorothy Gish scarcely adds some much needed sensuality and freshness, that lightens up a bit the overall sanctimonious, patronizing tune.
The war sequences, some of them allegedly filmed near the front line, left me unimpressed. Only the 10′ last battle provides some action, but it was too late and not enough to make the whole experience satisfying.”

“Sometimes one does not know whether what he is seeing is a real war or screen make-believe. The pictures of hand to hand fighting in the trenches, the bursting of shells from big guns, the demolition of buildings, the scouting trips and raids into enemy trenches are impressively realistic.” (1918)

¡Cuba Sí!

“It remains the best and most intimate film on the making of a revolution.”

“Seeing and hearing Fidel Castro on it, I would say it is the best and most intimate film on the making of a personality cult.”

“Description of Incident: Marker’s film “Cuba si!” was called into question due to its anti-American/anti-Western message, its attack on the Catholic Church, and the free public forum it provided communist Cuba with. As a result of the film’s controversial nature, on July 31, 1961 the French Commission de controle des films cinematographiques agreed to ban the film abroad as well as in France.

Results of Incident: Marker responded to the French Commission’s ruling by arranging film screenings for foreign journalists and critics, in and around Paris. He also published the first of his volumes of “Commentaries”, which includes texts of the commentary accompanying “Cuba si!”, a selection of stills, texts of the narrative tracks of his six earlier documentaries, and copies of his correspondence with the Ministry of Information pertaining to bans on his films. The screenings Marker arranged along with illegal prints caused the film to be seen and reviewed in Germany, Scandinavia, and Britain; but it has never been publicly screened in the US.”

Fixing The Oscars 2.0 – 1951

Top Movies

Best Picture, English Language

– A Streetcare Named Desire (winner!)

– Strangers on a Train
– An American in Paris
– The Day the Earth Stood Still
– A Place in the Sun

Best Picture, Non-English Language

– Diary of a Country Priest (winner!)

– Awaara
– Early Summer
– Summer Interlude
– Miracle in Milan

Best Actor

– Marlon Brando (A Streetcar Named Desire) (winner!)

– Alastair Sim (Scrooge)
– Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun)
– Claude Laydu (Diary of a Country Priest)
– Michael Redgrave (The Browning Version)

Best Actress

– Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire) (winner!)

– Katharine Hepburn (The African Queen)
– Shelley Winters (A Place in the Sun)
– Setsuko Hara (Early Summer)
– Maj-Britt Nilsson (Summer Interlude)

Best Supporting Actor

– Robert Walker (Strangers on a Train) (winner!)

– Karl Malden (A Streetcar Named Desire)
– Oskar Werner (Decision Before Dawn)

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Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1931

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

City Lights – WINNER!

– Frankenstein
– Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
– The Public Enemy
– Monkey Business

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

M – WINNER!

– À Nous la Liberté / Freedom for Us
– Le Million / The Million
– Der Kongreß tanzt / The Congress Dances
– Marius

BEST ACTOR

Peter Lorre (M) – WINNER!

– Charles Chaplin (City Lights)
– Bela Lugosi (Dracula)
– Edward G. Robinson (Little Caesar)
– James Cagney (The Public Enemy)
– René Lefèvre (Le Million)

BEST ACTRESS

Dorothea Wieck (Mädchen in Uniform) – WINNER!

– Sylvia Sidney (Street Scene)
– Irene Dunne (Cimarron)
– Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet)
– Sylvia Sidney (City Streets)
– Barbara Stanwyck (The Miracle Woman)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Raimu (Marius) – WINNER!

– Boris Karloff (Frankenstein)
– Harry Myers (City Lights)
– Henri Marchand (À Nous la Liberté)
– Dwight Frye (Dracula)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Annabella (Le Million) – WINNER! (tied)
Miriam Hopkins (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) – WINNER! (tied)

– Lotte Lenya (Die 3 Groschen-Oper / The Threepenny Opera)

– Beulah Bondi (Street Scene)
– Virginia Cherrill (City Lights)

BEST DIRECTOR

Fritz Lang (M) – WINNER!

– Charles Chaplin (City Lights)
– René Clair (À Nous la Liberté)
– René Clair (Le Million)
– F. W. Murnau (Tabu)
– William Wellman (The Public Enemy)
– James Whale (Frankenstein)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

M (Thea von Harbou & Fritz Lang; from a newspaper report by Egon Jacobson) – WINNER!

– Le Million (René Clair; from the play by Georges Berr & Marcel Guillemaud)
– Marius (Marcel Pagnol; from his play)
– The Public Enemy (Harvey F. Thew; from the novel “Beer and Blood” by Kubec Glasmon & John Bright)
– Frankenstein (Garrett Fort & Francis Edward Faragoh; from the novel by Mary Shelley and the play by – – John L. Balderston & Peggy Webling)
– Street Scene (Elmer Rice; from his play)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

City Lights (Charles Chaplin) – WINNER!

– À Nous la Liberté (René Clair)
– Monkey Business (S.J. Perelman, Will B. Johnstone & Arthur Sheekman)
– The Congress Dances (Norbert Falk & Robert Liebmann)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Frankenstein (Arthur Edeson) – WINNER!

– M (Fritz Arno Wagner)
– Tabu (Floyd Crosby, Robert Flaherty)
– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Karl Struss)
– Dracula (Karl Freund)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

City Lights (Charles Chaplin) – WINNER!

– Street Scene (Alfred Newman)
– Marius (Frank Gromon)
– Frankenstein (Bernard Kaun)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

À Nous la Liberté (Georges Auric, original music; René Clair, sung text; Armand Bernard, musical director) WINNER!

– The Smiling Lieutenant (Oscar Straus & Clifford Grey, original songs; Adolph Deutsch, musical director)
– Le Million (Armand Bernard, Philippe Parès & George Van Parys, original music; René Clair, sung text)
– The Threepenny Opera (Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht, adapted songs; Theo Mackeben, musical director)
– The Congress Dances (Werner R. Heymann & Robert Gilbert, original songs)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Das gibt’s nur einmal, das kommt nie wieder”, Werner R. Heymann & Robert Gilbert (The Congress Dances) WINNER! (tied)
“Jazz Up Your Lingerie”, Oscar Straus & Clifford Grey (The Smiling Lieutenant) WINNER! (tied)

– “Das muss ein Stueck vom Himmel sein, Wien und der Wein”, Werner R. Heymann & Robert Gilbert (The Congress Dances)
– “Toujours l’Amour in the Army”, Oscar Straus & Clifford Grey (The Smiling Lieutenant)
– “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South”, Leon René, Otis René and Clarence Muse (Safe in Hell)
– “When Your Lover Has Gone”, E. A. Swan (Blonde Crazy)

BEST SOUND

Frankenstein – WINNER!

– À Nous la Liberté
– City Streets
– Le Million
– M

BEST FILM EDITING

M (Paul Falkenberg) – WINNER!

– Le Million (uncredited)
– City Lights (Charles Chaplin and Willard Nico)
– Tabu (Arthur A. Brooks)
– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (William Shea)

BEST ART DIRECTION

À Nous la Liberté (Lazare Meerson) – WINNER!

– Frankenstein (Charles D. Hall, Herman Rosse)
– Dracula (Charles D. Hall, Herman Rosse, John Hoffman)
– Le Million (Lazare Meerson)
– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Hans Dreier)
– City Lights (Charles D. Hall)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Smiling Lieutenant (uncredited) – WINNER!

– Dracula (Ed Ware, Vera West)
– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Travis Banton)
– Cimarron (Max Rée)
– Frankenstein (uncredited)
– Mata Hari (Adrian)
– Night Nurse (Earl Luick)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Frankenstein – WINNER!

– Dirigible
– Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
– Dracula

BEST SHORT FILM

Bimbo’s Initiation – WINNER!

– Beau Hunks
– Blue Rhythms
– The Busy Beavers
– Mickey Steps Out

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Jack P. Pierce for the makeup design of Frankenstein – WINNER!

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1970

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Il conformista / The Conformist – WINNER!

– Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto / Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
– Tristana
– Il giardino dei Finzi Contini / The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
– Ucho / The Ear

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Five Easy Pieces – WINNER!

– MASH
– The Railway Children
– The Ballad of Cable Hogue
– The Go-Between
– Little Big Man
– Patton
– The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

BEST ACTOR

Jack Nicholson (Five Easy Pieces) WINNER!

– George C. Scott (Patton)
– Fernando Rey (Tristana)
– James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope)
– Melvyn Douglas (I Never Sang for My Father)
– Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist)

BEST ACTRESS

Stéphane Audran (Le Boucher)

– Catherine Deneuve (Tristana)
– Jenny Agutter (The Railway Children)
– Dominique Sanda (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
– Jirina Bohdalová (The Ear)
– Carrie Snodgress (Diary of a Mad Housewife)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Chief Dan George (Little Big Man) – WINNER! (tied)
Gene Hackman (I Never Sang for My Father) – WINNER! (tied)

– James Fox (Performance)
– Bourvil (Le Cercle Rouge / The Red Circle)
– Bernard Cribbins (The Railway Children)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces) WINNER!

– Dominique Sanda (The Conformist)
– Sally Kellerman (MASH)
– Maureen Stapleton (Airport)
– Stefania Sandrelli (The Conformist)

BEST DIRECTOR

Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist) – WINNER!

– Luis Buñuel (Tristana)
– Karel Kachyna (The Ear)
– Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces)
– Robert Altman (MASH)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci; from the novel by Alberto Moravia) – WINNER!

– The Railway Children (Lionel Jeffries; from the novel by Edith Nesbit)
– Tristana (Luis Buñuel & Julio Alejandro; from the novel by Benito Pérez Galdós)
– The Go-Between (Harold Pinter; from the novel by L.P. Hartley)
– Witches’ Hammer / Kladivo na carodejnice (Otakar Vávra & Ester Krumbachová; from the novel by Václav Kaplický)
– MASH (Ring Lardner Jr.; from the novel by Richard Hooker)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Five Easy Pieces (Carole Eastman & Bob Rafelson) WINNER! (tied)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri & Ugo Pirro) – WINNER! (tied)

– Le genou de Claire / Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer)
– The Ear (Jan Procházka, Karel Kachyna & Ladislav Winkelhöfer)
– El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
– The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Conformist (Vittorio Storaro) – WINNER!

– Ryan’s Daughter (Frederick A. Young)
– Zabriskie Point (Alfio Contini)
– The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Ennio Guarnieri)
– Valerie a týden divu / Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Ján Curik)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Conformist (Georges Delerue) – WINNER!

– Love Story (Francis Lai)
– Ryan’s Daughter (Maurice Jarre)
– Airport (Alfred Newman)
– The Railway Children (Johnny Douglas)
– Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Lubos Fiser & Jan Klusák)
– Patton (Jerry Goldsmith)
– Beloe solntse pustyni / The White Sun of the Desert (Isaak Shvarts)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Woodstock (Eric Blackstead, music advisor & coordinator; archival performances by Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Country Joe & the Fish, Santana, Sly & the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix et. al.) – WINNER!

– Gimme Shelter (music direction uncredited; archival performances by The Rolling Stones, Ike & Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane & the Flying Burrito Brothers)
– The AristoCats (Richard M. & Robert B. Sherman, Terry Gilkyson, Floyd Huddleston & Al Rinker, original songs; George Bruns, music director)
– Zabriskie Point (The Grateful Dead & Pink Floyd, original songs & compositions; John Fahey et. al., adapted songs; Don Hall, musical advisor)
– L’ours et la poupée / The Bear and the Doll (Eddie Vartan, original music; Gioachino Rossini, adapted compositions)
– I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash, songs; Robert Johnston, music supervisor)
– Let It Be (The Beatles [George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr], original & adapted songs and archival performances; Phil Spector, music producer)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“The Long and Winding Road”, John Lennon & Paul McCartney (Let It Be) – WINNER!

– “Everybody Wants to Be a Cat”, Floyd Huddleston & Al Rinker (The Aristocats)
– “Suicide Is Painless”, Johnny Mandel & Mike Altman (MASH)
– “Beyond the Days of Now and Then”, Bob Stone & Stu Phillips (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls)
– “For All We Know”, Fred Karlin, Jimmy Griffin & Robb Royer (Lovers and Other Strangers)
– “Vamos a matar, compañeros”, Ennio Morricone & B. Corbucci (Compañeros)

BEST SOUND

The Ear – WINNER!

– Airport
– L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo / The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
– Zabil jsem Einsteina, panove / I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen
– Le Cercle Rouge
– Colossus: The Forbin Project

BEST FILM EDITING

The Conformist (Franco Arcalli) – WINNER!

– Woodstock (Hubert C. de la Bouillerie, Jere Huggins, Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, Michael Wadleigh, Stanley Warnow, Yeu-Bun Yee)
– Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen / Even Dwarfs Started Small (Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus)
– Patton (Hugh S. Fowler)
– MASH (Danford B. Greene)

BEST ART DIRECTION

The Conformist (Ferdinando Scarfiotti, production design; Osvaldo Desideri, set decoration) – WINNER!

– The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Giancarlo Bartolini Salimbeni, production design; Roberto Granieri, set decoration)
– Airport (E. Preston Ames & Alexander Golitzen)
– The Molly Maguires (Tambi Larsen)
– Patton (Urie McCleary & Gil Parrondo)
– Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jan Oliva)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Conformist (Gitt Magrini) – WINNER!

– Cromwell (Vittorio Nino Novarese)
– The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Julie Harris)
– Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (David Hayes)
– Waterloo (Nadezhda Buzina, Maria De Matteis & Ugo Pericoli)
– Ryan’s Daughter (Jocelyn Rickards)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Patton – WINNER! (tied)
Tora! Tora! Tora! – WINNER! (tied)

– Airport
– Beneath the Planet of the Apes
– Lo chiamavano Trinità… / My Name Is Trinity

BEST SHORT FILM

Is It Always Right to Be Right? – WINNER!

– Goldframe
– Inhabitants
– The Resurrection of Broncho Billy
– Kostnice
– Multiple Sidosis

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1960

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Psycho – WINNER!

– The Apartment
– Peeping Tom
– Spartacus
– The Brides of Dracula
– Sons and Lovers

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

La Dolce Vita –  WINNER!

– L’Avventura
– Rocco e i suoi fratelli / Rocco and His Brothers
– Macario
– À bout de souffle / Breathless
– Jungfrukällan / The Virgin Spring

BEST ACTOR

Anthony Perkins (Psycho) – WINNER!

– Jack Lemmon (The Apartment)
– Marcello Mastroianni (La Dolce Vita)
– Alain Delon (Plein soleil / Purple Noon)
– Charles Aznavour (Tirez sur le pianiste / Shoot the Piano Player)
– Jean-Paul Belmondo (Breathless)

BEST ACTRESS

Monica Vitti (L’Avventura) –  WINNER!

– Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)
– Jean Seberg (Breathless) 
– Sophia Loren (La ciociara / Two Women)
– Melina Mercouri (Pote tin Kyriaki / Never on Sunday) 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Peter Ustinov (Spartacus) –  WINNER!

– Renato Salvatori (Rocco and His Brothers) – 17 votes
– Fred MacMurray (The Apartment) – 14 votes
– Vittorio Caprioli (Zazie dans le Métro)
– Trevor Howard (Sons and Lovers)
– Maurice Ronet (Purple Noon)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Janet Leigh (Psycho) – WINNER!

 

– Annie Girardot (Rocco and His Brothers)
– Anouk Aimee (La Dolce Vita)
– Jo Van Fleet (Wild River)
– Wendy Hiller (Sons and Lovers)
– Shirley Jones (Elmer Gantry)
– Anna Massey (Peeping Tom)
– Edith Scob (Les Yeux Sans Visage / Eyes Without a Face)
– Moira Shearer (Peeping Tom)

BEST DIRECTOR

Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho) – WINNER!

– Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita)
– Billy Wilder (The Apartment)
– Michelangelo Antonioni (L’Avventura)
– Michael Powell (Peeping Tom)
– Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Apartment (Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond) – WINNER!

– La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano & Brunello Rondi)
– L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini & Tonino Guerra)
– Peeping Tom (Leo Marks)
– The Angry Silence (Bryan Forbes, Richard Gregson & Michael Craig)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Psycho (Joseph Stefano; from the novel by Robert Bloch) – WINNER!

– Rocco and His Brothers (Pasquale Festa Campanile, Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Luchino Visconti & Enrico – Medioli; from the novel “Il ponte della Ghisolfa” by Giovanni Testori)
– Akibiyori / Late Autumn (Kogo Noda & Yasujiro Ozu; from the novel by Ton Satomi)
– Elmer Gantry (Richard Brooks; from the novel by Sinclair Lewis) 
– Spartacus (Dalton Trumbo; from the novel by Howard Fast)

BEST BLACK & WHITE CINEMATOGRAPHY

La Dolce Vita (Otello Martelli) – WINNER!

– Psycho (John L. Russell)
– L’Avventura (Aldo Scavarda)
– Breathless (Raoul Coutard)
– Sons and Lovers (Freddie Francis)

BEST COLOR CINEMATOGRAPHY

Peeping Tom (Otto Heller) – WINNER!

– Purple Noon (Henri Decaë)
– Spartacus (Russell Metty)
– Zazie dans le Métro (Henri Raichi)
– Late Autumn (Yûharu Atsuta)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Psycho (Bernard Herrmann) – WINNER!

– The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein)
– La Dolce Vita (Nino Rota)
– Spartacus (Alex North)
– Shoot the Piano Player (Georges Delerue)
– Exodus (Ernest Gold)
– Eyes Without a Face (Maurice Jarre)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Bells Are Ringing (Jule Styne, Betty Comden & Adolph Green, adapted songs; André Previn, music adaptor) –  WINNER!

– Can-Can (Cole Porter, adapted songs; Nelson Riddle, music arranger)
– La Vérité (Jean Bonal, original songs; Garbiel Bouillon, music advisor; Dominique Boegner, assistant music advisor)
– Let’s Make Love (Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn, original songs; Lionel Newman, musical director; Earle Hagen, music associate)
– Pepe (André Previn & Hans Wittstatt, original songs; Dory Langdon, original lyrics; Johnny Green, music supervisor)
– The Wild, Wild Rose (Georges Bizet et. al., adapted compositions)

BEST SONG

“Never on Sunday”, Manos Hatzidakis (Never on Sunday) –  WINNER!

– “Where the Boys Are”, Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield (Where the Boys Are)
– “The Second Time Around”, Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn (High Time)
– “Flaming Star”, Sherman Edwards & Sid Wayne (Flaming Star)

BEST SOUND

Psycho  – WINNER!

– Peeping Tom
– Zazie dans le Metro
– Le Trou
– The Alamo
– Spartacus
– The Virgin Spring

BEST FILM EDITING

Psycho (George Tomasini) – WINNER!

– Breathless (Cécile Decugis, Lila Herman)
– Peeping Tom (Noreen Ackland)
– Shoot the Piano Player (Claudine Bouché, Cécile Decugis)
– La Dolce Vita (Leo Cattozzo)

BEST BLACK & WHITE ART DIRECTION

The Apartment (Alexandre Trauner) – WINNER!

– La Dolce Vita (Otello Martelli) 
– Psycho (Robert Clatworthy, Joseph Hurley)
– La maschera del demonio / Black Sunday (Giorgio Giovannini)
– Le Testament d’Orphée (Janine Janet – sculptor, Jacques Martin – set designer)
– L’Avventura (Piero Poletto – production design)

BEST COLOR ART DIRECTION

Spartacus (Eric Orbom) – WINNER!

– The Time Machine (George W. Davis, William Ferrari)
– Peeping Tom (Arthur Lawson)
– Purple Noon (Henri Decaë)
– Zazie dans le Métro (Bernard Evein – production design)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Spartacus (Valles, William Ware Theiss) – WINNER!

– The Virgin Spring (Marik Vos-Lundh)
– La Dolce Vita (Piero Gherardi)
– The Time Machine (uncredited)
– Le Testament d’Orphée (Janine Janet)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

The Time Machine – WINNER!

– Black Sunday
– Village of the Damned
– Les Yeux Sans Visage / Eyes without a Face

BEST SHORT FILM

High Note – WINNER! (tied)
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film – WINNER! (tied)

– Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
– Hyde and Go Tweet
– Mouse and Garden
– Universe

 

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1950

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Sunset Blvd. – WINNER!

– All About Eve
– The Asphalt Jungle
– In a Lonely Place
– Winchester ’73

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Los Olvidados – WINNER!

– Rashomon
– La Ronde
– Orphee / Orpheus
– Till Gladje / To Joy

BEST ACTOR

William Holden (Sunset Blvd.) – WINNER!

– James Stewart (Harvey)
– Humphrey Bogart (In a Lonely Place)
– Toshiro Mifune (Rashomon)
– Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac)

BEST ACTRESS

Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.) – WINNER!

– Bette Davis (All About Eve)
– Judy Holliday (Born Yesterday)
– Anne Baxter (All About Eve)
– Gloria Grahame (In a Lonely Place)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

George Sanders (All About Eve) – WINNER!

– Erich von Stroheim (Sunset Blvd.)
– Sam Jaffe (The Asphalt Jungle)
– Miguel Inclan (Los Olvidados)
– Jack Palance (Panic in the Streets)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Josephine Hull (Harvey) – WINNER!

– Machiko Kyo (Rashomon)
– Maria Casares (Orpheus)
– Hope Emerson (Caged)
– Celeste Holm (All About Eve)
– Estela Inda (Los Olvidados

BEST DIRECTOR

Billy Wilder (Sunset Blvd.) – WINNER!

– Luis Bunuel (Los Olvidados)
– John Huston (The Asphalt Jungle)
– Jean Cocteau (Orpheus)
– Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon)
– Max Ophuls (La Ronde)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz; from the story “The Wisdom of Eve” by Mary Orr) – WINNER!

– Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa & Shinobu Hashimoto; from the stories “Rashomon” and “In a Grove” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa)
– The Asphalt Jungle (Ben Maddow & John Huston; from the novel by W.R. Burnett)
– Harvey (Mary Chase & Oscar Brodney; from the play by Chase)
– Les enfants terribles (Jean Cocteau from his novel)
– Gun Crazy (MacKinlay Kantor & Dalton Trumbo; from the story by Kantor)
– La ronde (Jacques Natanson & Max Ophüls; from the play “Reigen” by Arthur Schnitzler)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Sunset Blvd. (Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman Jr.) – WINNER!

– Los olvidados (Luis Buñuel & Luis Alcoriza)
– Orpheus (Jean Cocteau)
– D.O.A. (Russell Rouse & Clarence Greene)
– Panic in the Streets (Richard Murphy, Daniel Fuchs, Edna Anhalt & Edward Anhalt)
– To Joy (Ingmar Bergman)
– Winchester ’73 (Robert L. Richards, Borden Chase & Stuart N. Lake)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Rashomon (Kazuo Miyagawa) – WINNER!

– Sunset Boulevard (John F Seitz)
– Los Olvidados (Gabriel Figueroa)
– Orpheus (Nicholas Hayer)
– Night and the City (Max Greene)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Sunset Blvd. (Franz Waxman) – WINNER!

– Orpheus (Georges Auric)
– Rashomon (Fumio Hayasaka)
– Seven Days to Noon (John Addison)
– All About Eve (Alfred Newman)
– Panic in the Streets (Alfred Newman)
– The Flame and the Arrow (Max Steiner)
– Cyrano de Bergerac (Dimitri Tiomkin)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Cinderella (Mack David, Jerry Livingston & Al Hoffman, original songs; Paul Smith & Oliver Wallace, musical direction) – WINNER!

– Annie Get Your Gun (Irving Berlin, adapted songs; Adolph Deutsch, musical director)
– Aventurera (Agustín Lara & Alberto Domínguez, original songs; Antonio Díaz Conde & Dámaso Pérez Prado, music arrangers)
– Summer Stock (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, et. al., original & adapted songs; Saul Chaplin & Johnny Green, musical directors)
– Three Little Words (Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar, et al., adapted songs; André Previn, musical director)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”, Mack David, Jerry Livingston & Al Hoffman (Cinderella) – WINNER!

– “A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes”, Mack David, Jerry Livingston & Al Hoffman (Cinderella)
– “Be My Love”, Nicholas Brodszky & Sammy Cahn (Toast of New Orleans)
– “Aventurera”, Agustín Lara (Aventurera)
– “Mona Lisa”, Ray Evans & Jay Livingston (Captain Carey, USA)

BEST SOUND

– Rashomon – WINNER! (tied)
– Sunset Blvd. – WINNER! (tied)

– Seven Days to Noon – 9 votes
– Beauty and the Devil – 6 votes
– To Joy – 6 votes
– Winchester ’73

BEST FILM EDITING

Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa) – WINNER!

– Los Olvidados (Carlos Savage)
– All About Eve (Barbara McLean)
– Sunset Blvd. (Doane Harrison, Arthur P. Schmidt)
– In a Lonely Place (Viola Lawrence)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Sunset Blvd. (Hans Dreier, John Meehan) – WINNER!

– Orpheus (Jean d’Eaubonne)
– La Ronde (Jean d’Eaubonne)
– Rashomon (Takashi Matsuyama, H. Motsumoto)
– All About Eve (George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

All About Eve (Edith Head, Charles Le Maire) – WINNER!

– La Ronde (Georges Annenkov)
– Sunset Blvd. (Edith Head)
– Orpheus (Marcel Escoffier)
– Rashomon (uncredited)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Destination Moon – WINNER!

– Orpheus

BEST SHORT FILM

Rabbit of Seville – WINNER!

– Gerald McBoing-Boing
– Boobs in the Woods
– The Ducksters
– Jerry’s Cousin
– The Scarlet Pumpernickel
– Un chant d’amour

Fixing the Oscars 2.0 – 1940

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

The Shop Around the Corner – WINNER!

– Rebecca
– His Girl Friday
– Pinocchio
– Fantasia
– The Grapes of Wrath
– The Thief of Bagdad

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Ahí está el detalle / You’re Missing the Point – WINNER! (tied)
Juninatten / A Night in June – WINNER! (tied)

– Sans lendemain / There’s No Tomorrow
– Paradis perdu / Four Flights to Love

BEST ACTOR

Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath) – WINNER!

– Cary Grant (His Girl Friday)
– Charles Chaplin (The Great Dictator)
– Laurence Olivier (Rebecca)
– James Stewart (The Shop Around the Corner)
– Conrad Veidt (The Thief of Bagdad)

BEST ACTRESS

Joan Fontaine (Rebecca) – WINNER!

– Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story)
– Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday)
– Bette Davis (The Letter)
– Vivien Leigh (Waterloo Bridge)
– Margaret Sullavan (The Shop Around the Corner)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

John Carradine (The Grapes of Wrath) – WINNER!

– Walter Brennan (The Westerner)
– Jack Oakie (The Great Dictator)
– John Qualen (The Grapes of Wrath)
– James Stephenson (The Letter)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Judith Anderson (Rebecca) – WINNER!

– Jane Darwell (The Grapes of Wrath)
– Ida Lupino (They Drive by Night)
– Ruth Hussey (The Philadelphia Story)
– Lucile Watson (Waterloo Bridge)

BEST DIRECTOR

John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath) – WINNER!

– Alfred Hitchcock (Rebecca)
– Howard Hawks (His Girl Friday)
– Ernst Lubitsch (The Shop Around the Corner)
– Charles Chaplin (The Great Dictator)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

His Girl Friday (Charles Lederer; from the play ‘The Front Page’ by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur) – WINNER!

– The Shop Around the Corner (Samson Raphaelson; from the play by Miklós László)
– The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart; from the play by Philip Barry)
– Rebecca (Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Philip MacDonald & Michael Hogan; from the novel by Daphne Du Maurier)
– The Grapes of Wrath (Nunnally Johnson; from the novel by John Steinbeck)
– The Thief of Bagdad (Lajos Biró & Miles Malleson; from ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ by Scheherazade)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin) – WINNER!

– The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges)
– Remember the Night (Preston Sturges)
– You’re Missing the Point (Humberto Gómez Landero & Juan Bustillo Oro)
– There’s No Tomorrow (Hans Wilhelm, Jean Jacot & André-Paul Antoine)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

The Thief of Bagdad (Georges Perinal & Osmond Borradaile) – WINNER!

– The Grapes of Wrath (Gregg Toland)
– Rebecca (George Barnes)
– The Letter (Tony Gaudio)
– Stranger on the Third Floor (Nicholas Musuraca)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

The Thief of Bagdad (Miklos Rozsa) – WINNER!

– The Letter (Max Steiner)
– Rebecca (Franz Waxman)
– The Sea Hawk (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
– The Great Dictator (Meredith Willson & Charles Chaplin)
– The Mark of Zorro (Alfred Newman)
– Our Town (Aaron Copland)

BEST ADAPTED/SONG SCORE

Fantasia (Edward H. Plumb – musical director, Leopold Stokowski – conductor; compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Paul Dukas, Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Amilcare Ponchielli, Modest Mussorgsky & Franz Schubert) – WINNER!

– Pinocchio (Leigh Harline & Ned Washington – original songs)
– The Grapes of Wrath (Alfred Newman – musical direction; adapted from traditional American melodies including “Red River Valley”)
– Down Argentine Way (Harry Warren & Mack Gordon, et. al. – original songs; Emil Newman – musical director)
– Broadway Melody of 1940 (Cole Porter, et. al. – original & adapted songs; Alfred Newman – musical director)
– Dance, Girl, Dance (Edward Ward – original song music & musical director, Chet Forrest & Bob Wright – original lyrics)
– Strike Up the Band (Roger Edens & Arthur Freed – original songs, various adapted songs; Georgie Stoll – musical director)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“I’ve Got No Strings”, Leigh Harline & Ned Washington (Pinocchio) – WINNER! (tied)
“When You Wish Upon a Star”, Leigh Harline & Ned Washington (Pinocchio) – WINNER! (tied)

– “Hi Diddle Dee Dee”, Leigh Harline & Ned Washington (Pinocchio)
– “Down Argentine Way”, Harry Warren & Mack Gordon (Down Argentine Way)
– “The Man’s in the Navy”, Frederick Hollander & Frank Loesser (Seven Sinners)
– “Paradis perdu”, Hans May & Roger Fernay (Paradis perdu)

BEST SOUND

Fantasia – WINNER!

– The Sea Hawk
– Foreign Correspondent
– The Grapes of Wrath
– The Thief of Bagdad

BEST FILM EDITING

Foreign Correspondent (Dorothy Spencer) – WINNER!

– Rebecca (W. Donn Hayes)
– The Grapes of Wrath (Robert L. Simpson)
– The Thief of Bagdad (Charles Crichton)
– The Great Dictator (Willard Nico)
– His Girl Friday (Gene Havlick)

BEST ART DIRECTION

The Thief of Bagdad (Vincent Korda) – WINNER!

– Rebecca (Lyle R. Wheeler – art director, Joseph B. Platt – interior designer, Howard Bristol – interior decorator)
– The Grapes of Wrath (Richard Day & Mark-Lee Kirk – art directors, Thomas Little – set decorator)
– Foreign Correspondent (Alexander Golitzen)
– The Great Dictator (J. Russell Spencer)
– Pride and Prejudice (Cedric Gibbons – art director, Edwin B. Willis – set decorator)
– The Sea Hawk (Anton Grot)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

The Thief of Bagdad (John Armstrong, Oliver Messel & Marcel Vertès) – WINNER!

– The Grapes of Wrath (Gwen Wakeling)
– The Great Dictator (Wyn Ritchie & Ted Tetrick)
– The Mark of Zorro (Travis Banton)
– Pride and Prejudice (Adrian)
– The Sea Hawk (Orry-Kelly)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

The Thief of Bagdad (Lawrence W. Butler) – WINNER!

– The Sea Hawk (Byron Haskins & Hans F. Koenekamp)
– Foreign Correspondent (Paul Eagler)
– The Long Voyage Home (Ray Binger & R. T. Layton)
– Fantasia (Dan MacManus, Joshua Meador, Gail Papineau, Leonard – Pickley, Miles E. Pike, John Reed, et al.)

BEST SHORT FILM

You Ought to Be In Pictures – WINNER!

– Puss Gets the Boot
– A Wild Hare
– London Can Take It!
– The Milky Way
– Mr. Duck Steps Out
– Quicker N’ a Wink!

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

Bobby Connolly & Albertina Rasch for the choreography of “Begin the Beguine” (Broadway Melody of 1940) – WINNER!

Fixing The Oscars 2.0 – 1930

BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER!

– Animal Crackers
– The Dawn Patrol
– Morocco
– The Big Trail
– City Girl
– Journey’s End

BEST NON-ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PICTURE

Der blaue Engel / The Blue Angel – WINNER!

– L’âge d’or / The Golden Age
– Zemlya / Earth
– Sous les toits de Paris / Under the Roofs of Paris
– Le sang d’un poète / The Blood of a Poet
– Menschen am Sonntag / People on Sunday

BEST ACTOR

Emil Jannings (The Blue Angel) – WINNER!

– Groucho Marx (Animal Crackers)
– Lew Ayres (All Quiet on the Western Front)
– Charles Farrell (City Girl)
– Colin Clive (Journey’s End)
– Semyon Svashenko (Earth)

BEST ACTRESS

Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel) – WINNER!

– Marlene Dietrich (Morocco)
– Greta Garbo (Anna Christie)
– Lya Lys (L’âge d’or)
– Marie Dressler (Min and Bill)
– Mary Duncan (City Girl)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers) – WINNER!

– Adolphe Menjou (Morocco)
– Gaston Modot (Under the Roofs of Paris)
– Wallace Beery (The Big House)
– Louis Wolheim (All Quiet on the Western Front)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Margaret Dumont (Animal Crackers) – WINNER!

– Marie Dressler (Anna Christie)
– Yuliya Solntseva (Earth)
– Jean Harlow (Hell’s Angels)
– Raquel Torres (The Sea Bat)

BEST DIRECTOR

Luis Buñuel (L’âge d’or) – WINNER!

– Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front)
– Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel)
– Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Earth)
– René Clair (Under the Roofs of Paris)
– Jean Cocteau (The Blood of a Poet)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

L’âge d’or (Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí) – 23 votes – WINNER!
Under the Roofs of Paris (René Clair) – 11 votes
Earth (Aleksandr Dovzhenko) – 10 votes
The Dawn Patrol (Howard Hawks, Dan Totheroh, Seton I. Miller & John Monk Saunders) – 9 votes
The Big House (Frances Marion, Joseph Farnham & Martin Flavin) – 8 votes

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

All Quiet on the Western Front (George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson & Del Andrews; from the novel “Im Westen nichts Neues” by Erich Maria Remarque) – WINNER!

– The Blue Angel (Carl Zuckmayer, Karl Vollmöller, Robert Liebmann & Heinrich Mann; from the novel “Professor Unrat” by Mann)
– Animal Crackers (Morrie Ryskind; from the play by George S. Kaufman, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Ryskind)
– Morocco (Jules Furthman; from the play “Amy Jolly” by Benno Vigny)
– Journey’s End (Joseph Moncure March & Gareth Gundrey; from the play by R.C. Sherriff)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Arthur Edeson (All Quiet on the Western Front) – WINNER!

– Daniil Demutsky (Earth)
– Georges Périnal (The Blood of a Poet)
– Lee Garmes (Morocco)
– Albert Duverger (L’âge d’or)

BEST SCORE (including original and adapted/song/musical)

Friedrich Holländer (original songs); Franz Waxman (orchestrator) (The Blue Angel) – WINNER!

– Raoul Moretti (original songs & music), Vincent Scotto (original music), René Nazelles (original lyrics); Armand Bernard (music arranger) (Under the Roofs of Paris)
– Georges Auric (original music) (The Blood of a Poet)
– Max Reese (original music), Harry Ruby (original songs), Bert Kalmar (original lyrics) (Animal Crackers)
– W. Franke Harling (original music and songs), Richard A. Whiting (original songs), Leo Robin (original lyrics); additional original music by Karl Hajos, Herman Hand, Sigmund Krumgold & John Leipold (Monte Carlo)
– Werner R. Heymann (original songs and music), Robert Gilbert (original lyrics) (Three Good Friends)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuß auf Liebe eingestellt” / “Falling in Love Again,” Friedrich Holländer (The Blue Angel) – WINNER!

– “Ein Freund, ein guter Freund”, Werner R. Heymann & Robert Gilbert (Three Good Friends)
– “Ich bin die fesche Lola”, Friedrich Holländer (The Blue Angel)
– “Sous les toits de Paris”, Raoul Moretti & René Nazelles (Under the Roofs of Paris)

BEST SOUND

All Quiet on the Western Front – WINNER!

– Westfront 1918

BEST FILM EDITING

Luis Buñuel (L’âge d’or) – WINNER! (tied)
Aleksandr Dovzhenko (Earth) – WINNER! (tied)

– Edgar Adams & Milton Carruth (All Quiet on the Western Front)
– Jean Cocteau (The Blood of a Poet)
– René Le Hénaff (Under the Roofs of Paris)

BEST ART DIRECTION

Hans Dreier (Morocco) – WINNER!

– Lazare Meerson (Under the Roofs of Paris)
– Jean d’Eaubonne (The Blood of a Poet)
– Pierre Schild (set decorator) (L’âge d’or)
– Otto Hunte & Emil Hasler (The Blue Angel)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Travis Banton (Morocco) – WINNER!

– René Hubert (Under the Roofs of Paris)
– Tihamer Varady (The Blue Angel)
– Uncredited (All Quiet on the Western Front)
– Sam Benson, Earl Moser (The Big Trail)

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS

Uncredited (All Quiet on the Western Front) – WINNER! (tied)
Fred Jackman (The Dawn Patrol) – WINNER! (tied)

BEST SHORT FILM

À propos de Nice – WINNER!

– Night Owls
– Another Fine Mess
– The Golf Specialist
– Cuckoo Murder Case
– Pioneer Days
– Swing You Sinners!

Fixing the Oscars – 2008

Best Picture – English Language

Slumdog Millionaire WINNER!
WALL-E WINNER!

– The Hurt Locker
– Gran Torino
– Food, Inc
– In Bruges

Best Picture – Non-Enlish Language

Vals Im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir) WINNER!

– Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)
– Entre les murs (The Class)
– Un conte de Noël (A Christmas Tale)
– Le silence de Lorna (Lorna’s Silence)

Best Actor

Sean Penn (Milk) WINNER!

– Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
– Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
– Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
– Colin Farrell (In Bruges)

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) WINNER!

– Kate Winslet (The Reader)
– JeeJa Yanin (Chocolate)
– Arta Dobroshi (Lorna’s Silence)
– Angelina Jolie (Changeling)

Best Supporting Actor

Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky) WINNER!

– Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
– Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles)
– Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
– Jean-Paul Roussillon (A Christmas Tale)
– Jérémie Renier (Lorna’s Silence)

Best Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruz (Vicky Christina Barcelona) WINNER!

– Lina Leandersson (Let the Right One In)
– Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler)
– Laura Garcia (Leonera – Lion’s Den)
– Viola Davis (Doubt)
– Elsa Zylberstein (I’ve Loved You So Long)

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) WINNER!

– Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino) WINNER!
– Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
– Andrew Stanton (WALL-E)
– Thomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In)

Best Original Screenplay

Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) WINNER!

– Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter & Jim Reardon (WALL-E) WINNER!
– Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
– Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne (Lorna’s Silence)
– Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir)
– Courtney Hunt (Frozen River)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, from the novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup) WINNER!

– Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, from the play by Morgan)
– François Bégaudeau, Laurent Cantet & Robin Campillo (The Class, from the novel Entre les murs by Bégaudeau)
– John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In, from the novel Låt den rätte komma in by Lindqvist)
– Ella Lemhagen (Patrik Age 1.5, from the play Patrik 1,5 by Michael Druker)
– David Hare (The Reader, from the novel Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink)
– Nina Paley (Sita Sings the Blues, from Ramayana by Valmiki)

Best Cinematography

Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire) WINNER!

– Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker)
– Tom Stern (Changeling)
– Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight)
– Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Original Score

A. R. Rahman (Slumdog Millionaire) WINNER!

– Alexandre Desplat (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
– Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
– Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker)
– Tarô Iwashiro (Chi bi – Red Cliff)
– Johan Söderqvist (Let the Right One In)

Best Adapted/Song/Musical Score

Sita Sings the Blues (recordings by Annette Hanshaw selected by Nina Paley) WINNER!

– High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Jennifer Hammond & Fred Kron, music arrangers; original and adapted songs by Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, Jamie Houston, Adam Anders, Nikki Hassman, Andy Dodd, Adam Watts. Randy Petersen, Kevin Quinn et. al.)
– Mamma Mia! (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & Stig Anderson, adapted songs; Martin Lowe, musical director; Becky Bentham, music supervisor; Göran Arnberg, orchestrator & vocal coach)
– Were the World Mine (Jessica Fogle, music director & original songs; Cory James Krueckeberg, original lyrics; Tim Sandusky, music producer)
– Cadillac Records (Terence Blanchard, music director/conductor; Bath Amy Rosenblatt, music supervisor; adapted songs by McKinley Morganfield, Elias McDaniel, Chester Burnett, Chuck Berry, Walter Jacobs, Harry Warren, Mack Gordon et. al.; original song “Once in a Lifetime” by Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarnon, Ian Dench, James Dring & Jody Street)
– Slumdog Millionaire (A. R. Rahman, music producer & original songs; Maya Arulpragasam, original & adapted songs; Keith Strachan & Matthew Strachan, composers of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” theme music)
– Vicky Cristina Barcelona (music direction uncredited; songs & compositions by Giulia Tellarini, Maik Alemany, Alejandro Mazzoni, Jens Neumaier, Juan Serrano, Isaac Albéniz et. al.)

Best Original Song

“Jai Ho”, A. R. Rahman & Gulzar (Slumdog Millionaire) WINNER!

– “O Saya”, A. R. Rahman & Maya Arulpragasam (Slumdog Millionaire)
– “Down to Earth”, Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
– “Gake no ue no Ponyo” (“Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea”), Joe Hisaishi, Katsuya Kondô & Hayao Miyazaki (Ponyo)
– “Gran Torino”, Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood & Michael Stevens (Gran Torino)
– “Loin de Paname”, Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas (Faoubourg 36 – Paris 36)
– “Walk Away”, Jamie Houston (High School Musical 3: Senior Year)

Best Sound

The Hurt Locker WINNER!
WALL-E WINNER!

– Slumdog Millionaire
– The Dark Knight
– La mujer sin cabeza (The Headless Woman)

Best Editing

Slumdog Millionaire WINNER!

– The Hurt Locker
– Frost/Nixon
– Let the Right One In
– Milk

Best Art Direction

Kelly Curley, Michele Laliberte, Randy Moore, Scott Plauche, Tom Reta (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) WINNER!
Mark Bartholomew, James Hambidge, Craig Jackson, Kevin Kavanaugh, Simon Lamont, Steven Lawrence, Naaman Marshall (The Dark Knight) WINNER!

– Adam Stockhausen, (Synecdoche, New York)
– Lino Fiorito (production design), Alessandra Mura (set decoration) (Il Divo)
– Patrick M. Sullivan Jr., (Changeling)
– Anthony Caron-Delion, Peter Francis, John Frankish, Paul Laugier, Csaba Stork, Mark Swain, Judit Varga (Hellboy II: The Golden Army)
– Alexis McKenzie Main, Jean-Yves Rabier, Matthieu Beutter (Paris 36)

Best Costume Design

Deborah Hopper (Changeling) WINNER!

– Michael O’Connor (The Duchess)
– Catherine Martin, (Australia)
– Timmy Yip, (Red Cliff)
– Lindy Hemming, (The Dark Knight)
– Madeline Fontaine, (Séraphine)
– Albert Wolsky, (Revolutionary Road)

Best Special Effects

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button WINNER!

– Iron Man
– The Dark Knight
– Hellboy II: The Golden Army
– Martyrs

Best Short Film

Presto WINNER!

– The House of Small Cubes
– Smile Pinki
– Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
– This Way Up

Special Achievement Award

Panna Ritikri, for the fight coordination in Chocolate WINNER!

– Gerald Quist, for the make-up in Tropic Thunder