Oscars 2009 : The Winners

Cosimo · 23 Feb 2009 at 05:31

Here they are:

Best picture

Slumdog Millionaire

Best director

Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire

Best actor

Sean Penn - Milk

Best actress

Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best supporting actress

Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best supporting actor

Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight

Best foreign language film

Departures - Japan

Best animated feature film

Wall-E

Best adapted screenplay

Slumdog Millionaire

Best original screenplay

Milk

Here is the full list :

http://oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/

Greenlizard0 · 23 Feb 2009 at 05:56

Roughly as expected I think. Couldn't stand Wall-e but then it was the years only big animation.

Good on Kate Winslet, I really rate her.

Grrrrr · 23 Feb 2009 at 07:24

Wall-E was absolutely outstanding and thoroughly deserving of its awards. I'm suprised you didn't like it Greenlizard

m0r94n · 23 Feb 2009 at 07:34

I'm not sure why i'm so annoyed at the fact Ledger won the Oscar. Although I thought he was good in TDK it says a lot about the standard of support acting this year if his performance takes it. I suppose its not just for TDK though.

Disappointing to see Rourke miss out too. Was hoping he would get best actor.

Greenlizard0 · 23 Feb 2009 at 09:30

Grrrrr said:
Wall-E was absolutely outstanding and thoroughly deserving of its awards. I'm suprised you didn't like it Greenlizard

It was well made, and maybe I'd have been blown away if I'd seen it e.g. as a Blu-ray.

I just found the story unremarkable. If you look at e.g. Shrek or Toy Story you get a slightly better comedy. Also in Wall-E you didn't get any dialogue from the main characters, just weird sounds and them calling each other. :confused:

Sigourney Weaver must have laughed all the way to the bank!

As said above, I think it was there purely because it may have looked good/was the only animation of note this last year. I've not even heard of Bolt, and well Kung Fu panda you can pretty much guarentee they weren't thinking of Oscars when they'd finished it. And that's it, just three nominations (unless they only pick three for that catagory lol?).

Edit - best actor, supporting actor , supporting actress winners have all won before. Fair play.

I'VE BEEN THIS UNBEARABLE SINCE I WAS EIGHT, SAYS WINSLET

'Thank you for making a little girl's horribly self-absorbed dreams come true'

OSCAR winner Kate Winslet last night revealed she has been this unbearable since she was a little girl.

Collecting the award for best actress, Winslet told a cowering audience in Los Angeles how as an eight year-old she would stand in front a mirror, clutching a shampoo bottle and pretend she was 'the centre of the ****ing universe'.

She added: "Then I would go downstairs and thank everyone who helped make our kitchen possible before gently pointing out that my rice crispies were the wrong shade of beige.

"And later I'd get one of my little school friends to pretend to be my publicist and make all the other children write pretend articles about how down to earth I was and how, for me, it all starts with a really great script."

Elsewhere the best actor award went to Sean Penn for his towering portrayal of the world's first homosexual glass of milk, while Penelope Cruz, the Spanish hair-style, was named best supporting actress for finally getting her charlies out in a profoundly lesbian way.

An emotional Penn said: "The streets of heaven are too crowded with milk and milk-related products tonight."

But the evening belonged to the millionaire producers of Slumdog Millionaire and their triumphant, feel-good film about stomach-churning poverty.

Director Danny Boyle said: "None of this would have been possible without the untouchables of Mumbai, the little rascals.

"I just hope this film encourages them to club together their annual incomes and buy a copy when it comes out on Blu-Ray."