Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.): Alexandre Desplat
• "Defiance" (Paramount Vantage): James Newton Howard
• "Milk" (Focus Features): Danny Elfman
• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight): A.R. Rahman
• "WALL-E" (Walt Disney): Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• "Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" (Walt Disney): Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
• Lyric by Peter Gabriel
• "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight): Music by A.R. Rahman
• Lyric by Gulzar
• "O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight): Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best motion picture of the year

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.), A Kennedy/Marshall Production: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
• "Frost/Nixon" (Universal), A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production: Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
• "Milk" (Focus Features), A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production: Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
• "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company), A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production: Nominees to be determined
• "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight), A Celador Films Production: Christian Colson, Producer

Best animated short film

• "La Maison en Petits Cubes," A Robot Communications Production: Kunio Kato
• "Lavatory – Lovestory," A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production: Konstantin Bronzit
• "Oktapodi" (Talantis Films), A Gobelins, L'école de l'image Production: Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
• "Presto" (Walt Disney), A Pixar Animation Studios Production: Doug Sweetland
• "This Way Up," A Nexus Production: Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

• "Auf der Strecke (On the Line)" (Hamburg Shortfilmagency), An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production: Reto Caffi
• "Manon on the Asphalt" (La Luna Productions), A La Luna Production: Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
• "New Boy" (Network Ireland Television), A Zanzibar Films Production: Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
• "The Pig," An M & M Production: Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
• "Spielzeugland (Toyland)," A Mephisto Film Production: Jochen Alexander Freydank

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