Oscar 81st Annual Academy Awards Winners!!!

Friends.. Here is the list of Oscar 81st Annual Academy award winners...

Best Picture

WINNER: Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director

WINNER: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"

Leading Actor

WINNER: Sean Penn, "Milk"

Leading Actress

WINNER: Kate Winslet, "The Reader"

Supporting Actor

WINNER: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"

Supporting Actress

WINNER: Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

Animated Feature

WINNER: "WALL-E"

Adapted Screenplay

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire" screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original Screenplay

WINNER: "Milk" written by Dustin Lance Black

Art Direction

WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Donald Graham Burt, set decoration: Victor J. Zolfo

Cinematography

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire" Anthony Dod Mantle

Costume Design

WINNER: "The Duchess" Michael O'Connor

Documentary Feature

WINNER: "Man on Wire"

Documentary Short

WINNER: "Smile Pinki"

Film Editing

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire" Chris Dickens

Foreign Language Film

WINNER: "Departures" Japan

Makeup

WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Greg Cannom

Original Score

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman

Original Song

WINNER: "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" music by A.R. Rahman, lyrics by Gulzar

Animated Short

WINNER: "La Maison en Petits Cubes"

Live-action Short

WINNER: "Spielzeugland"

Sound Editing

WINNER: "The Dark Knight" Richard King

Sound Mixing

WINNER: "Slumdog Millionaire," Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty

Visual Effects

WINNER: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron

Slumdog Millionaire Hot Favourite at Oscars

Slumdog Millionaire, director Danny Boyle's neo-realastic film with 10 Oscar nominations stood poised to ride into ultimate cinematic fame at 81st Academy Awards at Los Angeles. Powered by a non-stop winning streak in other international awards, the story of a Mumbai slum teaboy's unlikely road to riches was the favourite to win the most coveted Oscar-Best picture award.

As the countdown began for the awards ceremony at the kodak theatre and British bookmakers listed it their clear favourite, child actors,10 year old Azharuddin Ismail and 9 year old Rubina Ali went round Mumbai on Friday. They excitedly spoke to the Media and acknowledged the collective enthusiasm of the city. Music maestro A.R.Rehmann, presently in Los Angeles preparing to perform at the prestigious ceremony told it would be a great honour if the film could grab the award.

Nine children who acted in the film were being hosted for the exciting awards ceremony function and Fox Searchlight was paying for visas, travel and accommodation. The film has won rave reviews and sharp reactions for its slum and poverty slot, competes for the best picture with the period drama "The curious case of Benjamin Button", the political story.

With Danny Boyle and his film heavily favoured to win the Best Director and Picture, Oscar watchers are looking to the acting honours for suspense at the ceremony.