Gravy and Biscuits

Hello everyone, we will be back on Twitter for another play-by-play of the 81st Annual Academy Awards, aka the 2009 Oscars but we will also be updating the winners here.  It wouldn’t be the Oscars without a drinking game, so be sure to print out your ballot and know that whenever you get one wrong, someone thanks God or their parents, or you notice someone with coke nose and you have to take a drink, we will be too!

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Red Xs mark the winners for the following categories:

BEST PICTURE
[ ] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] Frost/Nixon
[ ] Milk
[ ] The Reader
[X] Slumdog Millionaire
DIRECTOR
[ ] David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
[ ] Gus Van Sant, Milk
[ ] Stephen Daldry, The Reader
[X] Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
[ ] Frozen River
[ ] Happy-Go-Lucky
[ ] In Bruges
[X] Milk
[ ] WALL-E

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

[ ] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] Doubt
[ ] Frost/Nixon
[ ] The Reader
[X ] Slumdog Millionaire

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
[ ] Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
[ ] Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
[X] Sean Penn, Milk
[ ] Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
[ ] Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
[ ] Angelina Jolie, Changeling
[ ] Melissa Leo, Frozen River
[ ] Meryl Streep, Doubt
[X] Kate Winslet, The Reader

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
[ ] Josh Brolin, Milk
[ ] Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
[ ] Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
[X] Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
[ ] Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
[ ] Amy Adams, Doubt
[X ] Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
[ ] Viola Davis, Doubt
[ ] Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
[ ] The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
[ ] The Class (France)
[X ] Departures (Japan)
[ ] Revanche (Austria)
[ ] Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

ANIMATED FEATURE
[ ] Bolt
[ ] Kung Fu Panda
[X ] WALL-E

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
[ ] The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
[ ] Encounters at the End of the World
[ ] The Garden
[X] Man on Wire
[ ] Trouble the Water

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
[ ] The Conscience of Nhem En
[ ] The Final Inch
[X] Smile Pinki
[ ] The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306

SHORT FILM – ANIMATED
[X] La Maison En Petits Cubes
[ ] Lavatory – Lovestory
[ ] Oktapodi
[ ] Presto
[ ] This Way Up

SHORT FILM – LIVE ACTION
[ ] Auf Der Strecke (On the Line)
[ ] Manon on the Asphalt
[ ] New Boy
[ ] The Pig
[X] Spielzeugland (Toyland)

ORIGINAL SCORE
[ ] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] Defiance
[ ] Milk
[X] Slumdog Millionaire
[ ] WALL-E

ORIGINAL SONG
[ ] “Down to Earth” – WALL-E
[X] “Jai Ho” – Slumdog Millionaire
[ ] “O Saya” – Slumdog Millionaire

ART DIRECTION
[ ] Changeling
[X] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] The Dark Knight
[ ] The Duchess
[ ] Revolutionary Road

CINEMATOGRAPHY
[ ] Changeling
[ ] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] The Dark Knight
[ ] The Reader
[X] Slumdog Millionaire

COSTUME DESIGN
[ ] Australia
[ ] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[X] The Duchess
[ ] Milk
[ ] Revolutionary Road

MAKEUP
[X] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] The Dark Knight
[ ] Hellboy II: The Golden Army

SOUND MIXING
[ ] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] The Dark Knight
[X] Slumdog Millionaire
[ ] WALL-E
[ ] Wanted

SOUND EDITING
[X] The Dark Knight
[ ] Iron Man
[ ] Slumdog Millionaire
[ ] WALL-E
[ ] Wanted

VISUAL EFFECTS
[X] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] The Dark Knight
[ ] Iron Man

FILM EDITING
[ ] The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
[ ] The Dark Knight
[ ] Frost/Nixon
[ ] Milk
[X] Slumdog Millionaire

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