Best Picture of the Year: "Slumdog Millionaire". Read more about the film.

Best Actor: Sean Penn (left) for "Milk". Read more about the performance.

Best Actress: Kate Winslet (right) for "The Reader". Read more about the performance.

Best Director: Danny Boyle for "Slumdog Millionaire". Read more about the director.

Best Foreign Language Film: "Departures" (Japan)

Best Original Song: "Jai Ho" ( from "Slumdog Millionaire"). Read more about the film.

Best Original Score: "Slumdog Millionaire".

Best Film Editing: "Slumdog Millionaire".   

Best Sound Mixing: "Slumdog Millionaire". Read more about the film.  

Best Sound Editing: "The Dark Knight". Read more about the film.

Best Visual Effects: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Read more about the film.

Best Documentary Short: "Smile Pinki".

Best Documentary Feature: "Man on Wire".

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger for "The Dark Knight" (left). Read more about the performance.

Best Live Action Short: "Spielzeugland (Toyland)".

Best Cinematography: "Slumdog Millionaire". Read more about the film.

Best Make Up: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Read more about the film.

Best Costume Design: "The Duchess".

Best Art Direction: "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". (right) Read more about the film .

Best Animated Short: "La Maison en Petits Cubes".

Best Animated Feature: "Wall-E". Read more about the film.

Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy for "Slumdog Millionaire". Read more about the film.

Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black for "Milk". Read more about the film .

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (left) for "Vicky Cristina Barcelona". Read more about her performance.

Take a look behind the scenes at the Oscars with Variety's Stuart Oldham.

See the complete list of nominees.

Complete coverage at Award Central.

To hell with tonight's Grammy nominations. And whatever on the Sundance lineup. They've already published the only nominations that really matter -- the AVN Movie Awards, the porn industry's annual honorific orgy that takes place Jan. 10 in Las Vegas. They were released a week ago (two days before Thanksgiving?! Guys, whaddreya thinking?) and if anyone actually announced them, they'd still be talking: The nominations stretch on for a whopping 55 pages. Categories include MILF/Cougar Performer, Clever Title (my vote goes to "Charlie Wilson's Whore") and many others that I'd like to include but logic and propriety suggest otherwise. If you want to witness another endless award show for yourself, buy your ticket now; the event sells out. If you're content simply to see the list in its full bludgeoning glory, click here.