Nominations for Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role-81st Oscar Awards

The Nominations for Performance by an actor in a leading role category are:

• Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
  
• Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
  
• Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
  
• Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
  
• Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

81st Oscar Awards-Nominations

The Nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Oscar Awards was announced on 22nd January 2009 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker. Ganis and Whitaker, who won an Academy Award for lead performance in "The Last King of Scotland" (2006), announced the nominees in 10 of the 24 categories at a live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives. To see the nominations in any one of the 24 categories click on it:

• Performance by an actor in a leading role
  
• Performance by an actor in a supporting role
  
• Performance by an actress in a leading role
  
• Performance by an actress in a supporting role
  
• Achievement in directing
  
• Best animated feature film of the year
  
• Best foreign language film of the year
  
• Achievement in costume design
  
• Best documentary feature
  
• Best documentary short subject
  
• Achievement in makeup
  
• Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
  
• Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
  
• Best motion picture of the year
  
• Best animated short film
  
• Best live action short film
  
• Achievement in art direction
  
• Achievement in cinematography
  
• Achievement in film editing
  
• Achievement in sound editing
  
• Achievement in sound mixing
  
• Achievement in visual effects
  
• Adapted screenplay
  
• Original screenplay