For those who are interested:
| Category | Film | Distributor | Gross ($M) |
| Picture - Drama | Slumdog Millionaire | Fox Searchlight | 5.9 |
| Frost/Nixon | Universal | 0.2 | |
| Revolutionary Road (Dec 26) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Dec 25) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| The Reader | Weinstein Co. | 0.0 | |
| Picture - Comedy or Musical | Mamma Mia | Universal | 143.8 |
| Burn After Reading | Focus | 60.3 | |
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Weinstein Co. | 22.5 | |
| In Bruges | Focus | 7.8 | |
| Happy-Go-Lucky | Miramax | 2.9 | |
| Director | Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire | Fox Searchlight | 5.9 |
| Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon | Universal | 0.2 | |
| David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Dec 25) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road (Dec 26) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| Stephen Daldry, The Reader | Weinstein Co. | 0.0 | |
| Actor - Drama | Sean Penn, Milk | Focus | 5.0 |
| Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon | Universal | 0.2 | |
| Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Dec 25) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| Leonardo Dicaprio, Revolutionary Road (Dec 26) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (Dec 17) | Fox Searchlight | 0.0 | |
| Actress - Drama | Angelina Jolie, Changeling | Universal | 34.9 |
| Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married | Sony Classics | 9.2 | |
| Kristin Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long | Sony Classics | 1.8 | |
| Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road (Dec 26) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| Meryl Streep, Doubt (Dec 12) | Miramax | 0.0 | |
| Actor - Comedy or Musical | James Franco, Pineapple Express | Sony | 87.3 |
| Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Weinstein Co. | 22.5 | |
| Brendan Gleeson, In Bruges | Focus | 7.8 | |
| Colin Farrell, In Bruges | Focus | 7.8 | |
| Dustin Hoffman, Last Chance Harvey (Dec 25) | Overture | 0.0 | |
| Actress - Comedy or Musical | Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia | Universal | 143.8 |
| Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading | Focus | 60.3 | |
| Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Weinstein Co. | 22.5 | |
| Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky | Miramax | 2.9 | |
| Emma Thompson, Last Chance Harvey (Dec 25) | Overture | 0.0 | |
| Supporting Actor | Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight | Warner Bros. | 530.6 |
| Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder | Paramount | 110.5 | |
| Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder | Paramount | 110.5 | |
| Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess | Par. Vantage | 13.8 | |
| Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt (Dec 12) | Miramax | 0.0 | |
| Supporting Actress | Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona | Weinstein Co. | 22.5 |
| Amy Adams, Doubt (Dec 12) | Miramax | 0.0 | |
| Kate Winslet, The Reader | Weinstein Co. | 0.0 | |
| Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler (Dec 17) | Fox Searchlight | 0.0 | |
| Viola Davis, Doubt (Dec 12) | Miramax | 0.0 | |
| Screenplay | Slumdog Millionaire | Fox Searchlight | 5.9 |
| Frost/Nixon | Universal | 0.2 | |
| Doubt (Dec 12) | Miramax | 0.0 | |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Dec 25) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| The Reader | Weinstein Co. | 0.0 | |
| Animated Film | WALL-E | Buena Vista | 223.7 |
| Kung Fu Panda | Paramount | 215.4 | |
| Bolt | Buena Vista | 81.4 | |
| Foreign Language Film | I've Loved You So Long | Sony Classics | 1.8 |
| Gomorrah (Feb 13) | IFC | 0.0 | |
| Waltz with Bashir (Dec 25) | Sony Classics | 0.0 | |
| Everlasting Moments | IFC | ||
| The Baader Meinhof Complex | Summit | ||
| Score | Changeling | Universal | 34.9 |
| Slumdog Millionaire | Fox Searchlight | 5.9 | |
| Frost/Nixon | Universal | 0.2 | |
| Defiance (Dec 31) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Dec 25) | Paramount | 0.0 | |
| Song | WALL-E | Buena Vista | 223.7 |
| Bolt | Buena Vista | 80.4 | |
| Cadillac Records | Sony | 4.3 | |
| Gran Torino (Dec 12) | Warner Bros. | 0.0 | |
| The Wrestler (Dec 17) | Fox Searchlight | 0.0 |
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
