2009 Academy Awards Top Three Best Dressed Celebrities

#1 Best Dressed Celebrity at the 2009 Academy Awards - Marisa Tomei


Marisa Tomei looked great in her white Versace gown. Accentuated with a number of folds, the one shoulder of the gown helped show off her toned body and the pleats of the dress further complimented her red carpet look!

#2 Best Dressed Celebrity at the 2009 Academy Awards - Sara Jessica Parker

Sara Jessica Parker always leaves us waiting to see what she's going to wear down the red carpet at the Oscars and this year was no different! She brought in her 2009 Academy Award appearance wearing a Dior Haute Couture gown that showed off her toned body in only a way she could.

#3 Best Dressed Celebrity at the 2009 Academy Awards - Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep showed us that elegance still counts at the red carpet! She looked absolutely great in her taupe gown and overcome past year's that she made the worst dressed lists!

2009 Academy Awards Top Three Worst Dressed Celebrities

#1 Worst Dressed Star at the 2009 Academy Awards - Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman's purple and pink Rodarte dress with her criss-cross straps on the dress bodice just looked way too boring for this year's Oscars. The dress was definitely colorful, but just didn't fit her style or body.


#2 Worst Dressed Star at the 2009 Academy Awards - Marion Cotillard

Here's a look at the winners for the 81st Academy Awards, at a glance:

Best Motion Picture

  • Slumdog Millionaire: Winner
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
The Reader
Milk

Best Director
  • Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire: Winner
Stephen Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Performance by an Actor

Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
  • Sean Penn – Milk: Winner
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Performance by an Actress

Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
  • Kate Winslet - The Reader: Winner
Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role

Amy Adams – Doubt
  • Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Winner
Viola Davis – Doubt
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role

Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
  • Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight: Winner
Best Foreign Language Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
  • Departures (Japan): Winner
Revanche (Austria)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Best Animated Feature Film Of The Year

Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
  • Wall-E: Winner
Original Screenplay

Frozen River - Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
  • Milk - Dustin Lance Black: Winner
Wall-E - Andrew Stanton

Adapted Screenplay

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Roth
Doubt -John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
  • Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy : Winner
The Reader - David Hare

Best Animated Short Film
  • La Maison en Petits Cubes: Winner
Lavatory - Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Best Art Director

Changeling - James J. Murakami
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Donald Graham Burt: Winner
The Dark Knight
The Duchess - Michael Carlin
Revolutionary Road - Kristi Zea

Best Costume Design

Australia - Catherine Martin
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jacqueline West
  • The Duchess - Michael O'Connor: Winner
Milk - Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road - Albert Wolsky

Best Makeup
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Greg Cannom: Winner
The Dark Knight - John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Best Cinematography

Changeling - Tom Stern
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight - Wally Pfister
The Reader - Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
  • Slumdog Millionaire - Anthony Dod Mantle: Winner
Best Film Editing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button- Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
The Dark Knight - Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
Frost/Nixon - Wally Pfister
Milk - Elliot Graham
  • Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens: Winner
Best Live Action Short Film

Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
  • New Boy: Winner
The Pig
Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Best Original Score

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
Defiance - James Newton Howard
Milk - Danny Elfman
  • Slumdog Millionaire - AR Rahman: Winner
Wall-E - Thomas Newman

Best Original Song

Down to Earth - Wall-E - Music by Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman; Lyric by Peter Gabriel
  • Jai Ho - Slumdog Millionaire - Music by AR Rahman; Lyric by Gulzar : Winner
O Saya - Slumdog Millionaire - Music and Lyric by AR Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam

Best Documentary Feature
  • The Betrayal (Nerakhoon): Winner
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

Best Documentary Short

The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
  • Smile Pinki: Winner
The Witness

Best Visual Effects
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron: Winner
The Dark Knight - Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin
Iron Man - John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick, Shane Mahan

Best Sound Editing
  • The Dark Knight - Richard King: Winner
Iron Man - Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
Slumdog Millionaire - Glenn Freemantle, Tom Sayers
Wall-E - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted - Wylie Stateman

Best Sound Mixing

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
The Dark Knight - Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
  • Slumdog Millionaire - Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty: Winner
Wall-E - Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
Wanted - Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt