The Academy Awards 2009 in numbers

So you've probably already read our complete list of this year's Oscar nominations . But for those of you championing your favourite films this year, it's a bit tricky to trawl through the list counting up every single nomination.

So we've done it for you. It makes for interesting reading - especially if you were getting ready to flame the academy for snubbing The Dark Knight.

And the more awards, the higher it appears.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – 13 Nominations

Best Picture, Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup, Original Score, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects

Slumdog Millionaire – 10 Nominations

Best Picture, Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Original Score, Original Song x 2, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Film Editing

Milk – 8 Nominations

Best Picture, Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Original Score, Film Editing

The Dark Knight – 8 Nominations

Best Supporting Actor, Art Direction, Cinematography, Makeup, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Visual Effects, Film Editing

Wall-E – 6 Nominations

Best Original Screenplay, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Best Animated Feature

The Reader – 5 Nominations

Best Picture, Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography,

Doubt – 5 Nominations

Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay

Frost/Nixon – 5 Nominations

Best Picture, Director, Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing

Changeling – 3 Nominations

Best Actress, Art Direction, Cinematography

Revolutionary Road – 3 Nominations

Best Supporting Actor, Art Direction, Costume Design

The Wrestler – 2 Nominations

Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress

Frozen River – 2 Nominations

Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay

The Duchess – 2 Nominations

Art Direction, Costume Design

Iron Man – 2 Nominations

Sound Editing, Visual Effects[page-break]

Tropic Thunder – 1 Nomination

Best Supporting Actor

The Visitor – 1 Nomination

Best Actor

Rachel Getting Married – 1 Nomination

Best Actress

Vicky Cristina Barcelona – 1 Nomination

Best Supporting Actress

Happy-Go-Lucky – 1 Nomination

Best Original Screenplay

In Bruges – 1 Nomination

Best Original Screenplay

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

The Class – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

Departures – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

Revanche – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

Waltz With Bashir – 1 Nomination

Best Foreign Language Film

Australia – 1 Nomination

Costume Design

The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) – 1 Nomination

Documentary Feature

Encounters at the End of the World – 1 Nomination

Documentary Feature

The Garden – 1 Nomination

Documentary Feature

Man on Wire – 1 Nomination

Documentary Feature

Trouble the Water – 1 Nomination

Documentary Feature

The Conscience of Nhem En – 1 Nomination

Documentary Short Subject

The Final Inch – 1 Nomination

Documentary Short Subject

Smile Pinki – 1 Nomination

Documentary Short Subject

The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306 – 1 Nomination

Documentary Short Subject

Hellboy II: The Golden Army – 1 Nomination

Makeup

Defiance – 1 Nomination

Original Score

La Maison de Petits Cubes – 1 Nomination

Best Animated Short

Lavatory – Lovestory – 1 Nomination

Best Animated Short

Oktapodi – 1 Nomination

Best Animated Short

Presto – 1 Nomination

Best Animated Short

This Way Up – 1 Nomination

Best Animated Short

Wanted – 1 Nomination

Sound Editing

Bolt – 1 Nomination

Best Animated Feature

Kung Fu Panda - 1 Nomination

Best Animated Feature

The Total Film team are made up of the finest minds in all of film journalism. They are: Editor Jane Crowther, Deputy Editor Matt Maytum, Reviews Ed Matthew Leyland, News Editor Jordan Farley, and Online Editor Emily Murray. Expect exclusive news, reviews, features, and more from the team behind the smarter movie magazine. 

Latest in Film Festivals & Awards
Zoe Saldana at the Oscars
James Cameron responds to Zoe Saldaña's Oscar win: "I was so happy to see Zoe acknowledged as the world-class performer we, in the Avatar family, have always known her to be"
Francis Ford Coppola and Adam Driver
The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola has given a legendary response to his Razzie win for Megalopolis, which he is "thrilled" to accept
Mikey Madison and Mark Eidelstein in Anora
Anora's Sean Baker wins Best Director at the 2025 Oscars and immediately pleads, "Filmmakers, keep making films for the big screen"
Oscars
2025 Oscar winners in full: Anora wins big as The Brutalist and Wicked pick up multiple awards
Mikey Madison and Mark Eidelstein in Anora
Mikey Madison wins Best Actress at the 2025 Oscars, thanking director Sean Baker: "This is all because of you"
Adrien Brody as László Tóth in The Brutalist
The Brutalist's Adrien Brody becomes a two-time Best Actor winner at the 2025 Oscars: "This is the chance to begin again"
Latest in News
Original Xbox console
Former Microsoft exec says the first Xbox was killed early in favor of 360 because it was "losing money left right and center," but luckily "we could afford to hemorrhage cash"
A Monster Hunter Wilds character holding binoculars.
Despite Monster Hunter Wilds suffering monstrous performance problems on PC, it still outsold the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions in the US
Jordan A. Mun looks at herself in a mirror in just a vest in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet screenshot
The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann says Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet will also be about "being lonely," as if his zombie apocalypse wasn’t isolating enough: "I really want you to be lost"
A screenshot of Jordan drinking a soda during the reveal trailer for Intergalactic: The Hertic Prophet.
Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is "a game about faith and religion," which Neil Druckmann jokes will surely get less hate than The Last of Us 2
Pedro Pascal as Joel in The Last of Us
The Last of Us is "better" than 28 Days Later, says movie writer Alex Garland: "This is so much more sophisticated and moving"
Atelier Ryza 3 protagonist closeup
JRPG producer says people prefer their anime girls to have thick thighs when the economy's in the tank, and he's not even joking a little bit