Actorul Heath Ledger a fost nominalizat la categoria "cel mai bun actor in rol secundar" din cadrul celei de-a 81-a editie a Premiilor Oscar, pentru rolul Joker din "Batman: The Dark Knight", la exact un an de la trecerea sa in nefiinta. Regretatul actor australian a decedat pe 22 ianuarie 2008.

Din pacate, filmul "Batman: The Dark Knight" a fost omis de pe lista categoriilor principale, primind insa 7 nominalizari la categoriile tehnice.

Lista nominalizarilor la 10 dintre categoriile puse in joc la editia din acest an a Premiilor Oscar a fost anuntata azi, 22 ianuarie, la sediul Academiei Americane de Film de catre actorul Forest Whitaker.

In cursa pentru "cel mai bun film", in competitie au intrat: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Frost/ Nixon", "Milk", "The Reader" si "Slumdog Millionaire".

De altfel, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button este favoritul premiilor Oscar, avand la activ nu mai putin de 13 nominalizari, fiind urmat de castigatorul Globurilor de Aur, "Slumdog Millionaire", cu 10 nominalizari.

Filmul, ce-l are in rolul principal pe Brad Pitt, a fost nominalizat la cele mai importante categorii, printre care: "cel mai bun actor in rol principal" - Brad Pitt, "cea mai buna actrita in rol principal" - Taraji Phenson, "cel mai bun film" sau "cel mai bun regizor" - David Fincher.

Ramanand la categoriile importante, lupta va fi apriga si la Oscarurile rezervate actorilor.

Astfel, in cursa pentru un Oscar pentru "cel mai bun actor in rol principal" au intrat: Frank Jenkins (Frost/ Nixon), Sean Penn (Milk), Brad Pitt (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) si Richard Jenkins (The Visitor).

La feminin, situatia sta la fel de strans, in cursa intrand: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married), Angelina Jolie (Changeling), Melissa Leo (Frozen River), Meryl Streep (Doubt) si Kate Winslet (The Reader).

Ceremonia Premiilor Oscar va avea loc pe 22 februarie la Los Angeles.

Iata lista completa a nominalizarilor:

Best picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best director
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry - The Reader
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best actor
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best actress
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best supporting actress
Amy Adams - Doubt
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Taraji P Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

Best supporting actor
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road

Best foreign language film
Revanche - Austria
The Class - France
The Baader Meinhof Complex - Germany
Departures - Japan
Waltz With Bashir - Israel

Best animated feature film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best adapted screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best original screenplay
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Wall-E
In Bruges
Frozen River

Best Art Direction
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography
Changeling (Universal) - Tom Stern
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount and Warner Bros.) -Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.) - Wally Pfister
The Reader (The Weinstein Company) - Chris Menges and Roger Deakins Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight) - Anthony Dod Mantle

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, Pathe and BBC Films) - Michael O'Connor
Milk (Focus Features) - Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage) -Albert Wolsky

Best documentary feature
The Betrayal
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

Best documentary short subject
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
Smile Pinki
The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306

Achievement in film editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

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

Achievement in music written for motion pictures
"Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
"Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman
"O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best animated short film
"La Maison en Petits Cubes"
"Lavatory - Lovestory"
"Oktapodi" (Talantis Films)
"Presto" (Walt Disney)
"This Way Up"

Best live action short film
"Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
"Manon on the Asphalt"
"New Boy"
"The Pig"
"Spielzeugland (Toyland)"

Achievement in sound editing
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

Achievement in sound mixing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

Achievement in visual effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

(A.V.)

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