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The 81st Academy Awards ceremony was held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) 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. Oscar-nominated Laurence Mark served as the event’s producer, while Oscar-winning writer and director Bill Condon served as executive producer The Academy hoped to revitalize the ceremony through an entirely new production team sworn to secrecy, and the telecast received mixed reviews from critics.

Winners

• Best Picture : Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Director : Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Actor : Sean Penn – Milk
• Best Actress : Kate Winslet – The Reader
• Best Supporting Actor : Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
• Best Supporting Actress : enélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Best Original Screenplay : Milk – Dustin Lance Black
• Best Adapted Screenplay : Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
• Best Animated Feature : WALL-E – Andrew Stanton
• Best Foreign Language Film : Departures (Japan) in Japanese – Yojiro Takita
• Best Documentary Feature : Man on Wire
• Best Documentary Short : Smile Pinki – Megan Mylan
• Best Live Action Short : Toyland (Spielzeugland)
• Best Animated Short : La Maison En Petits Cubes – Kunio Kato
• Best Original Score : Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
• Best Original Song : “Jai Ho” from Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman (music), Gulzar (lyrics)
• Best Sound Editing : The Dark Knight – Richard King
• Best Sound Mixing : Slumdog Millionaire – Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Ian Tapp
• Best Art Direction : The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
• Best Cinematography : Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle
• Best Makeup : The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Greg Cannom
• Best Costume Design : The Duchess – Michael O’Connor
• Best Film Editing : Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens
• Best Visual Effects : The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron