2009 Oscars Nominations Announced Notable Snubs Clint Eastwood Dark Knight And Dev Patel

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button has won recognition with the most Oscar nominations in 13 categories. Instead, the candidates for best actor in a leading role in Richard Jenkin were The Visitor, Frank Langella in Frost Sean Penn in Milk, Brad Pitt in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler . In the best picture category were the candidates The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button Frost and Slumdog Millionaire . Some Clint Eastwood expected to appear in the category Best Actor for his performance in Gran Torino but, alas, he did not.