The Oscars

On February 22, 2009, the 81st Academy Awards honoring the best in film for 2008, and awarding the famous little gold statue, Oscar, will be held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Handsome hunk, actor Hugh Jackman will host the ceremony for the first time!
To prepare for the festivities, and get ready for your own Oscar party, check out ABC.com’s 'Road To The Oscars' which covers all Oscar-related events, including the parties and after-parties supporting this event. Road To The Oscars is a daily show featuring daily news and updates, interviews, behind-the-scenes and prep footage. You'll get an insider’s look at what it takes to produce the biggest event in Hollywood, as well as intimate interviews with this year’s nominees, host and producers...and now to the actual nominees and awards...
Can you predict a winner? If you think you can, I challenge you to prove it! Take The Oscars Challenge - Predict the Winners! Voilà, here are the nominees:

• Leading Actor - Richard Jenkins in The Visitor, Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon, Sean Penn in Milk, Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler;
• Leading Actress - Angelina Jolie in ChangelingAnne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married, Melissa Leo in Frozen River, Meryl Streep in Doubt, and Kate Winslet in The Reader;
• Supporting Actor - Josh Brolin in Milk, Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Doubt, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, and Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road;
• Supporting Actress - Amy Adams in Doubt, Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Viola Davis in Doubt, Taraji P. Henson in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler;
• Animated feature film - Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, and WALL-E;
• Art direction - Changeling, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Duchess, and Revolutionary Road;
• Cinematography - Changeling, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, and Slumdog Millionaire;
• Costume design - Australia, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Duchess, Milk, and Revolutionary Road;
  
• Directing - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader, and Slumdog Millionaire;
• Documentary, feature - The Betrayal, Encounters at the End of the World, The Garden, Man on Wire, and Trouble the Water;
• Documentary, short - The Conscience of Nhem En, The Final Inch, Smile Pinki, and The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306;
• Film editing - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk, and Slumdog Millionaire;
• Foreign language film - The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Class, Departures, Revanche, and Waltz With Bashir;
• Makeup - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, and Hellboy II: The Golden Army;
• Original musical score - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Defiance, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, and WALL-E;
• Original song - 'Down to Earth' from WALL-E, 'Jai Ho' from Slumdog Millionaire, and 'O Saya' from Slumdog Millionaire;
• Best Picture - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader, and Slumdog Millionaire;
• Animated short film - La Maison en Petits Cubes, Lavatory - Lovestory, Oktapodi, Presto, and This Way Up;
• Live action short film - Auf der Strecke (On the Line), Manon on the Asphalt, New Boy, The Pig, and Spielzeugland (Toyland);
• Sound editing - The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Slumdog Millionaire, WALL-E, and Wanted;
• Sound mixing - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Slumdog Millionaire, WALL-E, and Wanted;
• Visual effects - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, and Iron Man;
• Adapted screenplay - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, The Reader, and Slumdog Millionaire;
• Original screenplay - Frozen River, Happy-Go-Lucky, In Bruges, Milk, and WALL-E.

To get all the dirt on the nominations, have a look at the Oscar site (click here). Now ... are you up to this?!