The results are in for the 2009 81st Acad­emy Awards — Heath Ledger has won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Sup­port­ing Role for his por­trayal of the Joker. The Dark Knight also picked up another award for Best Sound Edit­ing. In The Dark Knight’s six other nom­i­na­tions it often lost out to either the Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton or Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire, the lat­ter of which won 8 in total includ­ing Best Pic­ture and Best Director.

Full results list after the break…

Best pic­ture: Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire
Also nom­i­nated: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; Frost/Nixon; Milk; The Reader

Best direc­tor: Danny Boyle — Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire
Also nom­i­nated: Stephen Daldry — The Reader; David Fincher — The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; Ron Howard — Frost/Nixon; Gus Van Sant — Milk

Best actor: Sean Penn — Milk
Also nom­i­nated: Richard Jenk­ins — The Vis­i­tor; Frank Lan­gella — Frost/Nixon; Brad Pitt — The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; Mickey Rourke — The Wrestler

Best actress: Kate Winslet — The Reader
Also nom­i­nated: Anne Hath­away — Rachel Get­ting Mar­ried; Angelina Jolie — Changeling; Melissa Leo — Frozen River; Meryl Streep — Doubt

Best sup­port­ing actor: Heath Ledger — The Dark Knight
Also nom­i­nated: Josh Brolin — Milk; Robert Downey Jr — Tropic Thun­der; Philip Sey­mour Hoff­man — Doubt; Michael Shan­non — Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Road

Best sup­port­ing actress: Pene­lope Cruz — Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Also nom­i­nated: Amy Adams — Doubt; Viola Davis — Doubt; Taraji P Hen­son — The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; Marisa Tomei — The Wrestler

Best orig­i­nal screen­play: Milk
Also nom­i­nated: Happy-Go-Lucky; Wall-E; In Bruges; Frozen River

Best adapted screen­play: Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire
Also nom­i­nated: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; Doubt; Frost/Nixon; The Reader

Best ani­mated fea­ture film: Wall-E
Also nom­i­nated: Bolt; Kung Fu Panda

Best ani­mated short film: La Mai­son en Petits Cubes
Also nom­i­nated: Lava­tory — Lovestory; Oktapodi; Presto; This Way Up

Best for­eign lan­guage film: Depar­tures — Japan
Also nom­i­nated: Revanche — Aus­tria; The Class — France; The Baader Mein­hof Com­plex — Ger­many; Waltz With Bashir — Israel

Best doc­u­men­tary fea­ture: Man on Wire
Also nom­i­nated: The Betrayal; Encoun­ters at the End of the World; The Gar­den; Trou­ble The Water

Best doc­u­men­tary short sub­ject: Smile Pinki
Also nom­i­nated: The Con­science of Nhem En; The Final Inch; The Wit­ness — From the Bal­cony of Room 306

Art direc­tion: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton
Also nom­i­nated: Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Duchess; Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Road

Cos­tume design: The Duchess
Also nom­i­nated: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; Aus­tralia; Milk; Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Road

Make-up: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton
Also nom­i­nated: The Dark Knight; Hell­boy II: The Golden Army

Cin­e­matog­ra­phy: Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire
Also nom­i­nated: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; Changeling; The Dark Knight; The Reader

Best live action short film: Spielzeug­land (Toy­land)
Also nom­i­nated: Auf der Strecke (On The Line); Manon on the Asphalt; New Boy; The Pig

Visual effects: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton
Also nom­i­nated: The Dark Knight; Iron Man

Sound edit­ing: The Dark Knight
Also nom­i­nated: Iron Man; Wanted; Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire; Wall-E

Sound mix­ing: Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire
Also nom­i­nated: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; The Dark Knight; Wanted; Wall-E

Film editing:Slumdog Mil­lion­aire
Also nom­i­nated: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; The Dark Knight; Frost/Nixon; Milk

Best orig­i­nal score: Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire
Also nom­i­nated: The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton; Defi­ance; Milk; Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire; Wall-E

Best orig­i­nal song: Jai Ho — Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire
Also nom­i­nated: Down To Earth — Wall-E; O Saya — Slum­dog Millionaire