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2009 Academy Awards

Release Date:
Sunday, February 22, 2009

MPAA Rating:
NR

Genre:
Various

Starring:
Hugh Jackman, and a host of presentors

Written By:
Various

Director:
Various

Synopsis:
Hugh Jackman will host the 81st Academy Awards® telecast, producer Laurence Mark and executive producer Bill Condon announced. This will be Jackman's first time center stage at the Oscar show, although he has previously been a presenter.

"Hugh Jackman is a consummate entertainer and an internationally renowned movie star," said Mark and Condon in a joint statement. "He also has style, elegance and a sense of occasion. Hugh is the ideal choice to host a celebration of the year's movies -- and to have fun doing it."

Jackman stars in the current release Australia, directed by Baz Luhrmann. He will next be seen in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, having portrayed the title character in the previous three smash-hit X-Men movies. His other film credits include The Prestige, Flushed Away, The Fountain, Happy Feet, Van Helsing, Kate & Leopold and Swordfish.

A native of Australia, Jackman won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in The Boy from Oz. He has served as host of the Tony Awards ceremony and won a 2005 Emmy for that assignment. Jackman's other stage credits include Carousel, Oklahoma!, Sunset Boulevard and Beauty and the Beast.

2009 Academy Awards | Tag

Nominations Announced
Greg Wright

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Achievement in costume design

  • "Australia" (20th Century Fox): Catherine Martin
  • "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.): Jacqueline West
  • "The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films) : Michael O'Connor
  • "Milk" (Focus Features): Danny Glicker
  • "Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage): Albert Wolsky

 

Achievement in directing

  • "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.): David Fincher
  • "Frost/Nixon" (Universal): Ron Howard
  • "Milk" (Focus Features): Gus Van Sant
  • "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company): Stephen Daldry
  • "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight): Danny Boyle

 

Best documentary feature

  • "The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" (Cinema Guild), A Pandinlao Films Production: Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
  • "Encounters at the End of the World" (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment), A Creative Differences Production: Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
  • "The Garden," A Black Valley Films Production: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
  • "Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures), A Wall to Wall Production: James Marsh and Simon Chinn
  • "Trouble the Water" (Zeitgeist Films), An Elsewhere Films Production: Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

 

Best documentary short subject

  • "The Conscience of Nhem En," A Farallon Films Production: Steven Okazaki
  • "The Final Inch," A Vermilion Films Production: Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
  • "Smile Pinki," A Principe Production: Megan Mylan
  • "The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306," A Rock Paper Scissors Production: Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

 

Achievement in film editing

  • "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.): Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
  • "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.): Lee Smith
  • "Frost/Nixon" (Universal): Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
  • "Milk" (Focus Features): Elliot Graham
  • "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight): Chris Dickens

 

Best foreign language film of the year

  • "The Baader Meinhof Complex," A Constantin Film Production - Germany
  • "The Class" (Sony Pictures Classics), A Haut et Court Production - France
  • "Departures" (Regent Releasing), A Departures Film Partners Production - Japan
  • "Revanche" (Janus Films), A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production - Austria
  • "Waltz with Bashir" (Sony Pictures Classics), A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production - Israel

 

Achievement in makeup

  • "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.): Greg Cannom
  • "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.): John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
  • "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (Universal): Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

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