MOVIES MADE EASY AWARDS Nominees!!!

Best Original Score

Jon Brion – Synecdoche, New York
Alexandre Desplat – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
David Hirschfelder - Australia
R.A. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire
Howard Shore – Doubt
Hans Zimmer – Frost/Nixon

Best Cinematography

Roger Deakins – Doubt
Frederick Elmes – Synecdoche, New York
Claudio Miranda – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Declan Quinn – Rachel Getting Married
Mandy Walker - Australia
Colin Watkinson – The Fall

Best Breakthrough Performance

Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
Robert Pattinson – Twilight
Brandon Walters – Australia

Best Comedic Performance

Thomas Haden Church – Smart People
Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
James Franco – Pineapple Express
Richard Jenkins – Step Brothers
Jane Lynch – Role Models
Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading

Best Actress In A Supporting Role

Viola Davis – Doubt
Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Samantha Morton – Synecdoche, New York
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Debra Winger – Rachel Getting Married

Best Actor In A Supporting Role

Emile Hirsch - Milk
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Tom Noonan – Synecdoche, New York
Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon
David Thewlis – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Best Actress In A Leading Role

Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Nicole Kidman – Australia
Emily Mortimer - Transsiberian
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

Best Actor In A Leading Role

Brian Cox – Red
Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Synecdoche, New York
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Adapted Screenplay

Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare – The Reader
Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
Stephen Susco – Red

Best Original Screenplay

Joel & Ethan Coen – Burn After Reading
Dustin Lance Black – Milk
Garth Jennings – Son of Rambow
Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
Jenny Lumet – Rachel Getting Married
Robert Seigel - The Wrestler

Best Director

Darren Aronofsky - The Wrestler
Jonathan Demme – Rachel Getting Married
David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Documentary Feature

Dear Zachary: Letters to A Son About His Father
Encounters at the End of the World
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Man on Wire
The Order of Myths
Standard Operating Procedure

Best Foreign Language Film

The Class (France)
Gomorrah (Italy)
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
The Song of Sparrows (Iran)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)
Worlds Apart (Denmark)

Best Animated Feature

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Bolt
Fear(s) of the Dark
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E
Waltz with Bashir

Best Film

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Synecdoche, New York
The Wrestler