Everything to "Milk", thankyou! (Riiight..)

Red = Winners.
Blue = My comments about what's going on.

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)
Comment: I may be alone on this but I don't really like Penélope Cruz.

Original screenplay
“Frozen River”, Written by Courtney Hunt
“Happy-Go-Lucky”, Written by Mike Leigh
“In Bruges”, Written by Martin McDonagh
“Milk”, Written by Dustin Lance Black
“WALL-E”, Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
Comment: YES!!! Awww, this guy breaks my heart with gay-supporting hope *sniffels*

Adapted screenplay
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Screenplay by Eric Roth, Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
“Doubt”, Written by John Patrick Shanley
“Frost/Nixon”, Screenplay by Peter Morgan
“The Reader”, Screenplay by David Hare
“Slumdog Millionaire”, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
Comment: I wish I cared enough to see Slumdog, but I didn't.. Love, bla bla bla..

Best animated feature film of the year
“Bolt” (Walt Disney), Chris Williams and Byron Howard
“Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount), John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
“WALL-E” (Walt Disney), Andrew Stanton
Comment: What a surprise... Not. Even if I actually haven't seen WALL-E it feels like I have. I always forget I haven't!

Best animated short film
“La Maison en Petits Cubes”
“Lavatory - Lovestory”
“Oktapodi”
“Presto”
“This Way Up”
Comment: "Sank yu" too mr japaneese guy! (So cute!) For once I had actually seen one of these! (Presto)

Achievement in art direction
“Changeling”, Art Direction: James J. Murakami, Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt, Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
“The Dark Knight”, Art Direction: Nathan Crowley, Set Decoration: Peter Lando
“The Duchess”, Art Direction: Michael Carlin, Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
“Revolutionary Road”, Art Direction: Kristi Zea, Set Decoration: Debra Schutt
Comment: All I can think about is how presenter Sarah Jessica Parker's boobs looks in that dress...

Achievement in costume design
“Australia”, Catherine Martin
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Jacqueline West
“The Duchess”, Michael O’Connor
“Milk”, Danny Glicker
“Revolutionary Road”, Albert Wolsky
Comment: Still boobs... (No 70's love? Boo!)

Achievement in makeup
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Greg Cannom
“The Dark Knight”, John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan
“Hellboy II: The Golden Army”, Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz
Comment: It made me happy to see Hellboy nominated for some reason. So unexpected.. Had no chance in hell though.

Achievement in cinematography
“Changeling”, Tom Stern
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Claudio Miranda
“The Dark Knight”, Wally Pfister
“The Reader”, Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
“Slumdog Millionaire", Anthony Dod Mantle
Comment: LOL at presenter Ben Stiller's Joaquin Phoenix-mockery!! (It's nice to be able to laugh about it becuase the whole thing is pathetic and/or sad..). The win? What the fuck is up with the winners hair!??

Best live action short film
“Auf der Strecke (On the Line)”, An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production, Reto Caffi
“Manon on the Asphalt”, Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
“New Boy”, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
“The Pig”, Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
“Spielzeugland (Toyland)”, Jochen Alexander Freydank
Comment: Franco's and Rogen's Pineapple Express-piece was brilliant, especially the Stellan Skarsgård shoutout. Very unexpected (even if they called him "that irish guy". He's swedish!)

Performence by Hugh & Beyonce
(plus Amanda, her MammaMia-husband, Zac w. girlfriend whatever her name is.. and so on)
Comment: I don't care about any of those people (except Amanda). Shut up and move on, this shit is stressing me out!

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Josh Brolin in “Milk”
Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder”
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”
Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight”
Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road”
Comment: Like in the supporting actress-category the presentation of the nominees is really personal. And long. Everybody got fantastic reviews exept Shannon who got a pretty lame "well done". What's up with that?? Anyway. Emotional speech by Heath's family.. :'( But we all know he wouldn't have been nominated if it wasn't for the fact he's dead.. (even if he deserved it!) Hollywood's so pathetic sometimes..

Best documentary feature
“The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)”, Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
“Encounters at the End of the World”, Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
“The Garden”, Scott Hamilton Kennedy
“Man on Wire”, James Marsh and Simon Chinn
“Trouble the Water”, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Comment: Werner Herzog!! <3 He didn't win but just hearing him speak in the presentation-film made me sooo happy. I love that mans way of speaking! (Nice oscar-partytrick by the winner;)

Best documentary short subject
“The Conscience of Nhem En”, Steven Okazaki
“The Final Inch”, Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
“Smile Pinki”, Megan Mylan
“The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306”, Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in visual effects
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
“The Dark Knight”, Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
“Iron Man”, John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan
Comment: HELL YEAH for the use of The Hives in the action-packed film-presentation! (More Sweden!!) Lol at how 'Benjamin' didn't fit into this category at all after that presentation!

Achievement in sound editing
“The Dark Knight”, Richard King
“Iron Man”, Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
“Slumdog Millionaire”, Glenn Freemantle and Tom Sayers
“WALL-E”, Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
“Wanted”, Wylie Stateman
Comment: Dark Knight 2-0 Iron Man!

Achievement in sound mixing
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
“The Dark Knight”, Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
“Slumdog Millionaire”, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
“WALL-E”, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
“Wanted”, Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt
Comment: Cute speach (and a cute excited Boyle in the audience;)

Achievement in film editing
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
“The Dark Knight”, Lee Smith
“Frost/Nixon”, Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
“Milk”, Elliot Graham
“Slumdog Millionaire”, Chris Dickens
Comment: Boyle still cute in the audience. So is Anwar Dev Patel (Skins-love!), who jumps in his seat. By the way, I'm starting to think I won't be able to catch the end of this show. Fucking work! (Why did my siser have to get that job interview for today of all frickin days!?)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Alexandre Desplat
“Defiance”, James Newton Howard
“Milk”, Danny Elfman
“Slumdog Millionaire”, A.R. Rahman
“WALL-E”, Thomas Newman
Comment: I would loved to have seen Elfman win becuase of who he is (and becuase it's Milk) but Milk's hardly his best work (Very fitting, but it's no Scissorhands.)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
Down to Earth” from “WALL-E”, Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Lyric by Peter Gabriel
“Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire”, Music by A.R. Rahman, Lyric by Gulzar
“O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire”, Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
Comment: Slumdog takes another one. Woop woop. Seriously, get Zac Efron off that stage! He don't belong at the Oscars in any way, not even as a presenter! (And the same goes for Miley!)

Best foreign language film of the year
“The Baader Meinhof Complex”, Germany
“The Class”, France
“Departures”, Japan
“Revanche”, Austria
“Waltz with Bashir”, Israel
Comment: Another japanese super-cute speach, aww!

Memorial montage
Comment: This have always been one of my favourite parts of the oscars, and I don't appriciate when they fuck it up! Did they know it was gonna be on TV when they planned it this year? Sometimes you could hardly read the names! And was the plan to make us sea-sick? Ugh. Paul Newman was the big name this year of course. Mine was Roy Schnider.

Achievement in directing
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, David Fincher
“Frost/Nixon”, Ron Howard
“Milk”, Gus Van Sant
“The Reader”, Stephen Daldry
“Slumdog Millionaire”, Danny Boyle
Comment: Wow, presenter Reese looks kinda haggard... The winner was no surprise and even if I wished for Gus I'm happy for Boyle. The guy made Trainspotting for gawd sake, hehe. And Sunshine (Yes, I frickin' love that movie). Great speach.

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married”
Angelina Jolie in “Changeling”
Melissa Leo in “Frozen River”
Meryl Streep in “Doubt”
Kate Winslet in “The Reader”
Comment: The movie she won this for didn't matter at all. She won for being who she is. And I fucking love her too.

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor”
Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon”
Sean Penn in “Milk”
Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler”
Comment: OMG!!!! FUCKING HELL!! YES!!! I'm chocked!!!!!! I was totally prepared for Mickey to win. Very beautiful speach. And by the way, Robert DeNiro's speach for Sean Penn was the best of the five. "How did he do it? How did he get away with playing a straight man for so many years..?" lol!

Best motion picture of the year
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
“Frost/Nixon”, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
“Milk”, Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
“The Reader”, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, Producers
“Slumdog Millionaire”, Christian Colson, Producer
Comment: Worthy winner. As I said I haven't seen it, but it's a very non-hollywood move and that's great!

Comment: All in all a great emotional entertaining award show! Better made than usual, actually. Personal and cosy! x)