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The nominees were announced live on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:38 a.m. [[Pacific Time Zone|PST]] (13:38 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]])<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.oscar.com/comingsoon/|title=Coming Soon|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|accessdate=21 January 2009}}</ref> by [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] president [[Sid Ganis]] and Oscar-winning actor [[Forest Whitaker]] at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] headquarters.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2009/20090120.html|title=Forest Whitaker to Join Academy President Sid Ganis for Oscar Nominations|date=20 January 2009|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|accessdate=21 January 2009}}</ref>
The nominees were announced live on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:38 a.m. [[Pacific Time Zone|PST]] (13:38 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]])<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.oscar.com/comingsoon/|title=Coming Soon|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|accessdate=21 January 2009}}</ref> by [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] president [[Sid Ganis]] and Oscar-winning actor [[Forest Whitaker]] at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] headquarters.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2009/20090120.html|title=Forest Whitaker to Join Academy President Sid Ganis for Oscar Nominations|date=20 January 2009|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|accessdate=21 January 2009}}</ref>


''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]'' led the nominations with a total of thirteen while ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'' received ten. ''[[The Dark Knight (film)|The Dark Knight]]'' and ''[[Milk (film)|Milk]]'' received eight nominations, and ''[[Doubt (2008 film)|Doubt]]'', ''[[The Reader (film)|The Reader]]'', and ''[[Frost/Nixon (film)|Frost/Nixon]]'' each received five. ''[[WALL-E]]'', the winner for [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature|Best Animated Feature]], received six nominations, tying it with ''[[Beauty and The Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and The Beast]]'' for the most nominated animated film in Oscar history.<ref>{{citenews|url=http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/1/22/wall-e-earns-6-oscar-nominations.html|title=Wall-E Earns 6 Oscar Nominations, Ties Record|author=Maura Judkis|publisher=''U.S. News and World Report''|date=2009-01-22|accessdate=2009-02-22}}</ref>
''[[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]'' led the nominations with a total of 13 while ''[[Slumdog Millionaire]]'' received ten. ''[[The Dark Knight (film)|The Dark Knight]]'' and ''[[Milk (film)|Milk]]'' received eight nominations, and ''[[Doubt (2008 film)|Doubt]]'', ''[[The Reader (film)|The Reader]]'', and ''[[Frost/Nixon (film)|Frost/Nixon]]'' each received five. ''[[WALL-E]]'', the winner for [[Academy Award for Best Animated Feature|Best Animated Feature]], received six nominations, tying it with ''[[Beauty and The Beast (1991 film)|Beauty and The Beast]]'' for the most nominated animated film in Oscar history.<ref>{{citenews|url=http://www.usnews.com/blogs/fresh-greens/2009/1/22/wall-e-earns-6-oscar-nominations.html|title=Wall-E Earns 6 Oscar Nominations, Ties Record|author=Maura Judkis|publisher=''U.S. News and World Report''|date=2009-01-22|accessdate=2009-02-22}}</ref>


''Slumdog Millionaire'' won eight awards, the most of the evening, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] and [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] ([[Danny Boyle]]). ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' came in second with three awards.
''Slumdog Millionaire'' won eight awards, the most of the evening, including [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] and [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] ([[Danny Boyle]]). ''The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' came in second with three awards.

Revision as of 22:56, 26 February 2009

81st
DateFebruary 22, 2009
SiteKodak Theatre
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hosted byHugh Jackman
Preshow hostsTim Gunn
Robin Roberts
Jess Cagle[1]
Produced byBill Condon
Laurence Mark
Directed byRoger Goodman[2]
Highlights
Best PictureSlumdog Millionaire
Most awardsSlumdog Millionaire (8)
Most nominationsThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button (13)
Television coverage
NetworkABC
Duration3 hours, 30 minutes
Ratings36.94 million
21.68 (Nielsen ratings)
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The 81st Academy Awards ceremony was held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to honor its selection of the best films of 2008 on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was televised in the United States on ABC. Australian performer Hugh Jackman hosted the ceremony for the first time.[3] Oscar-nominated Laurence Mark served as the event's producer, while Oscar-winning writer and director Bill Condon served as executive producer.[4]

The nominees were announced live on Thursday, January 22, 2009, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC)[5] by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis and Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the Academy's Beverly Hills headquarters.[6]

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button led the nominations with a total of 13 while Slumdog Millionaire received ten. The Dark Knight and Milk received eight nominations, and Doubt, The Reader, and Frost/Nixon each received five. WALL-E, the winner for Best Animated Feature, received six nominations, tying it with Beauty and The Beast for the most nominated animated film in Oscar history.[7]

Slumdog Millionaire won eight awards, the most of the evening, including Best Picture and Best Director (Danny Boyle). The Curious Case of Benjamin Button came in second with three awards.

The Academy hoped to revitalize the ceremony through an entirely new production team sworn to secrecy, but the telecast received mixed reviews from critics.

Winners of major awards

This is a breakdown of winners of major awards categories only. For a complete list of nominees and winners, see 81st Academy Awards nominees and winners.[8][9]

Feature films

Award Winner Producer
Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire Christian Colson
Best Foreign Language Film Departures - Japan Yojiro Takita
Best Documentary Feature Man on Wire Simon Chinn
Best Animated Feature WALL·E Andrew Stanton

Directing

Award Winner Film
Best Director Danny Boyle Slumdog Millionaire

Acting

Award Winner Film
Best Actor in a Leading Role Sean Penn Milk
Best Actress in a Leading Role Kate Winslet The Reader
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Heath Ledger The Dark Knight
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Penélope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Writing

Award Winner Film
Best Writing - Original Screenplay Dustin Lance Black Milk
Best Writing - Adapted Screenplay Simon Beaufoy Slumdog Millionaire

Special honors

Award Winner Field
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Jerry Lewis Comedic film and humanitarian work

Multiple nominations and awards

Premise

File:Oscar-teamx.jpg
Academy Award producers Bill Condon and Laurence Mark. The duo attempted to revamp the awards ceremony.

Due to the declining viewership of the recent Academy Awards ceremonies, the Academy had contracted an entirely new production team in an attempt to revive the award ceremony and revamp its general script and theming. Marketing for the ceremony had even gone so far as to advertise it as "The Biggest Movie Event of the Year". Producers Bill Condon and Laurence Mark announced their plans to rewrite the script, and they made attempts to keep the entire premise of the ceremony a secret, even from the presenters and performers.[10] Film director Judd Apatow aired a new short film during the ceremony which starred Seth Rogan and James Franco reprising their roles from Apatow's Pineapple Express. This made the telecast the first ceremony to include a short film since the 79th Academy Awards for 2006, which incorporated a short film directed by Errol Morris. Chris Harrison hosted "Road to the Oscars",[11] a weekly behind-the-scenes video blog on the Academy's website, oscar.com.[12] David Rockwell designed a new set and stage design for the ceremony.[13] The red carpet pre-show was directed by Robert Osborne.[14] Host Jackman expressed his anticipation of the awards in the few days preceding, and had commented that he was thrilled with preparations for the ceremony.[15] All four acting awards were each presented by five veteran winners of the relevant category. Each introduced one nominee verbally on the strengths of their nominated performance; no 'clip scenes' were shown. This broke with previous tradition for the supporting-role presentations, wherein the previous year's winner of the opposite sex would present and award the trophy.[citation needed]

Schedule

As of January 15, 2009[16]
Date Event
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Official Screen Credits forms due
Friday, December 26, 2008 Nominations ballots mailed
Monday, January 12, 2009 Nominations polls closed at 5:00 p.m. PST (01:00, 13 Jan. UTC) (8:00 p.m. EST)
Thursday, January 22, 2009 Nominations announced at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) (8:38 a.m. EST) at Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Final ballots mailed
Monday, February 2, 2009 Nominees Luncheon
Saturday, February 7, 2009 Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 Final polls closed at 5:00 p.m. PST (01:00, 18 Feb. UTC) (8:00 p.m. EST)
Sunday, February 22, 2009 81st Annual Academy Awards presentation

In Memoriam

Queen Latifah performed "I'll Be Seeing You" during the annual In Memoriam tribute to honor individuals who died since the previous year's Academy Award ceremonies. Listed below are those who were honored during the tribute.[17]

Note: Several notable individuals including Sam Bottoms, George Carlin, Eartha Kitt, Harvey Korman, Don LaFontaine, John Phillip Law, Patrick McGoohan, Anita Page, and Robert Prosky were not included in the "In Memoriam" tribute, though they died within the last year. Also, Heath Ledger died shortly before last year's ceremony, and a tribute to him was included then.

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.[18]

Presenters (in order of appearance)
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Performers (in order of appearance)

The musical arranger for the telecast was Michael Giacchino. Other performers during the telecast were

Advertisements

ABC aired a number of themed commercial advertisements which were shown during the ceremony. The Academy's ban that had previously disallowed film commercials to be aired during the telecast was lifted in mid-2007, thus allowing film companies to promote their upcoming films for the first time during the broadcast.[21] Thirty-second commercials cost between $1.4 million and $1.7 million, compared to up to $1.8 million during last year's show.[22] The decrease was due to the recent global economic crisis.[22]

Voting trends and summary

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Forest Whitaker and Sid Ganis present the nominees for Best Picture at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Continuing a trend in recent years, the field of major nominees did not include a bona fide blockbuster at the U.S. box office, with all but one of the nominees for Best Picture performing even more poorly than those of the previous year. In fact, The Dark Knight earned more money than all the Best Picture nominees combined in its first four days of release.[citation needed] However, the top money earner in this year's field of Best Picture nominees performed slightly better in box office receipts compared to last year's highest grossing Best Film nominee, Juno. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with $104.4 million in domestic box office receipts (compared to Juno which grossed $87 million prior to its nomination).[citation needed] The film was followed by Slumdog Millionaire which earned $44.7 million, Milk with $20.7 million, and Frost/Nixon with $8.8 million.[citation needed] The Reader rounded out the Best Picture nominees with $8.3 million. [citation needed]

Among the rest of the top 50 releases of 2008 in U.S. box office before the nominations, 32 nominations went to eight films on the list. Only The Dark Knight (1st), WALL-E (5th), Kung Fu Panda (6th), Bolt (19th), Tropic Thunder (20th), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (21st) received nominations for best picture, directing, acting, or screenwriting. The other top-50 box office hits that earned nominations were Iron Man (2nd), and Wanted (16th).[citation needed] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, WALL-E, and Wanted each received more than two nominations.

For the first time since 2004, two films received more than eight nominations: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button received thirteen and Slumdog Millionaire received ten.

For the fourth consecutive year, four of the Best Picture nominees were rated R (under 17 requires an accompanying adult). Of the 86 nominations awarded to non-documentary feature films (apart from the Foreign Film category), a majority of 46 went to R-rated films (down from 50 one year earlier), 35 to films rated PG-13 (up from 29 the previous year), two to PG-rated films (down from 4 the year before) and eight to a G-rated film (up from five from last year).[citation needed] Duplicating the rating-related division among the nominations for the past three years, R-rated films captured 27 of the 40 nominations for Best Picture, directing, screenwriting and acting; while non-R-rated films received 25 of the 43 nominations in the remaining categories, primarily those in "below the line" areas.[citation needed]

Oscar Snubs

Many critics expressed surprise at some of the nominee lists, such as the omission of WALL-E and The Dark Knight from the Best Picture category,[23][24] and the omission of Clint Eastwood's performance in Gran Torino from the Best Actor category.[25] The Academy also surprised critics when it only put forward three nominations for the Best Song category, excluding Bruce Springsteen's The Wrestler and the theme from Gran Torino.[26] The shortened list led Rolling Stone to accuse the Academy of snubbing Springsteen.[26]

Winners

For the seventh consecutive year, at least one lead acting award went to an actor playing a real-life person (Sean Penn for his portrayal of Harvey Milk). This is also the eleventh year in a row that any of the acting awards went to the portrayal of a real person. For the second year running, the Best Actor trophy has been awarded to a previous Best Actor recipient. Also for second year running, a Spaniard (Penélope Cruz) has won in a supporting category (previously Javier Bardem), and for the fourth year a British actress (Kate Winslet) has won an award (previously Tilda Swinton, Helen Mirren and Rachel Weisz consecutively).[27] This year also marks the second time Stephen Daldry has directed an actress into a Best Actress win (the other was Nicole Kidman, who also was a presenter), and the third time an actress he directed was nominated (Julie Walters). It was also the fourth time Woody Allen directed an actress into a Best Supporting Actress win (the others were Dianne Wiest, twice, and Mira Sorvino). This is also the first time the Award for Best Supporting Actor has been awarded posthumously, to Heath Ledger, and only the second posthumous acting award in Academy history. The first was to Peter Finch for Network, in 1977.

For the first time since the 60th Academy Awards (1987), there was no Honorary Award presented.

Controversies

Like the previous year's awards, this year's Oscars has also faced multiple controversies.

Disputes over Ledger's statuette

Because Best Supporting Actor winner Heath Ledger died in January 2008 making his nomination one of posthumous recognition, the Academy had disputes over who should accept the award and who should gain ownership of it should Ledger win it. Following talks with Ledger's family in Australia, the Academy ruled that his previous domestic partner Michelle Williams could not accept the award as the two were not married. They then decided that Ledger and Williams' three-year-old daughter, Matilda Rose Ledger, would own the award. However, due to Matilda's age, she will not gain full ownership of the statuette until her eighteenth birthday in 2023.[28] Until that time, Michelle Williams will hold the statuette in trust for Matilda.[29] Ledger's family attended the ceremony to accept the award on his behalf when he won.[30]

Faked winners leak

Shortly after the voting polls were closed for the awards, a purported list of winners was posted online.[31] The list, which bore a purported signature from Academy president Sid Ganis, stated that Mickey Rourke won for Best Actor, Kate Winslet won for Best Actress, Amy Adams won for Best Supporting Actress, Heath Ledger won for Best Supporting Actor and Slumdog Millionaire won for Best Picture. It was later confirmed as a fake list. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spokeswoman Leslie Unger later revealed that the list was "a complete fraud",[32] and that PricewaterhouseCoopers had just begun to count the ballots. The awards were last revealed prior to the ceremony in the 1950s. The list was proved false as the first award of the night, Best Supporting Actress, was awarded to Penélope Cruz, not Amy Adams, the winner in the falsified winners list.

Other controversies

Prior to the nominations announcement, it was suggested that the 2008-09 Screen Actors Guild labor dispute could affect the awards by discouraging actors' attendance at the ceremony, However, as talks to end the dispute between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) were ongoing,[33][34] the expected strike did not affect the awards ceremony,[35] although a resolution between SAG and AMPTP has not yet been reached.[36][37]

Peter Gabriel, who was originally scheduled to perform his nominated song "Down to Earth" from WALL-E during the live broadcast, declined to perform after learning that he would be allowed to sing only 65 seconds of the song during the ceremony's Best Original Song nominee performances.[38] Gabriel still attended the ceremony. John Legend performed the song in place of Gabriel, backed by the Soweto Gospel Choir.

Memorable quotes

  • "Fifteen career Oscar nominations. That's a record. I hate to say it but when someone puts up numbers like that, it's just hard not to think steroids." - Host Hugh Jackman to Meryl Streep (during his opening monologue).[39]
  • "It's not going to be 45 seconds, I can say that right now. Has anybody ever fainted here? Because I might be the first one." - Penelope Cruz, accepting the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Vicky Cristina Barcelona.[39]
  • "When I was 13 years old my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas, to California, and I heard the story of Harvey Milk and it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life." - Dustin Lance Black, accepting the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Milk.
  • "There are certain places in the universe you never imagine standing. For me, it's the moon, the South Pole, the Miss World podium and here." - Simon Beaufoy after winning the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire.[39]
  • "This award tonight would have humbly validated Heath's quiet determination to be truly accepted by you all here - his peers within an industry he so loved." - Kim Ledger, accepting the Best Supporting Actor Oscar on behalf of his son Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight.[39]
  • "I'd be lying if I said I haven't made a version of this speech before. I think I was probably 8 years old and staring into the bathroom mirror, and this would have been a shampoo bottle. Well, it's not a shampoo bottle now." - Kate Winslet, upon winning Best Actress for The Reader.[39]
  • "I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone. And there are, and there are, these last two things. I'm very, very proud to live in a country that is willing to elect an elegant man president and a country who, for all its toughness, creates courageous artists." - Sean Penn, upon accepting his Oscar for Best Actor in Milk, commenting on California's vote of Proposition eight.
  • "When we started out, we had no stars, we had no power or muscle, we didn't have enough money really to do what we wanted to do. But what we had was a script that inspired mad love in everyone who read it. ... Most of all, we had passion and we had belief and our film shows that if you have those two things, truly anything is possible." - Producer Christian Colson accepting the Best Picture award for Slumdog Millionaire.[39]

Reception and ratings

The show received a mixed reception from media publications. The Los Angeles Times says the show "fell flat" and from "Jackman's strangely self-conscious, low-rent opening musical number to Ben Stiller's obscure spoof of Joaquin Phoenix's recent appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, the awards had a tone problem — they tried to be something for everyone, coming off like a movie script that had its edginess and guts airbrushed out by too many studio notes."[40] The Los Angeles Times' awards insider page The Envelope says host Hugh Jackman surely "obliterated all memory of the Uma-Oprah thing", in reference to the negative reception David Letterman received when hosting the 1995 Academy Awards ceremony.[41] The Boston Globe states the show "aimed for flash...but ultimately, fizzle prevailed."[42] The Baltimore Sun says "the Oscars show itself took a different direction this year: It went Tony with a vengeance. It was like a concept musical with a flaccid concept, badly in need of a Parisian riot or an exploding chandelier."[43] The Chicago Tribune states the "New format, host are unable to rescue a plodding telecast."[44] The New York Times says of the ceremony as "it was fun for a while, but then it just started to seem long."[45]

Other media outlets received the broadcast more positively. Perez Hilton called the performance "wonderful";[46] E! Online said that "Jackman nailed it";[47] the Associated Press stated that "the key word was charm" and that Hugh Jackman "gave his all";[48] and Salon.com said "Hurray for the Recession Oscars, the sincerest, sweetest, most heartfelt Oscars ever!"[49] Roger Ebert said of Jackman: "I had a feeling Hugh Jackman would be a charmer as host, and he was." Of the show itself, Ebert added, "It was the best Oscar show I've ever seen, and I've seen plenty."[50] The Toronto Star, Japan Today, and The Sydney Morning Herald also gave positive reviews,[51][52][53] and many in the British media were particuarly favourable of Hugh Jackman's hosting performance.[54]

Results from online polls conducted by Newsday[55] and Entertainment Weekly[56] showed a mostly positive response from viewers.

A preliminary estimate of television show ratings show that the 81st Academy Awards ceremony made an improvement in ratings by surpassing last year's Academy Awards ceremony's rating by 6 percent, which was hurt by the Writer's Strike and was a record low.[57][58] However, the telecast is still likely to be among the three least-watched Oscars, along with the 75th Academy Awards ceremony (2002),[57] since 1972. A later preliminary estimate suggests that 36.3 million watched the 81st Academy Awards, up 13 per cent from last year.[59]

International broadcasters

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See also

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