Who won for the best actor of 81st Oscar winners Academy?
Sean Penn MILK NOMINATED ROLE Sean Penn plays Harvey Milk, the camera store owner whose decision to campaign for a place on San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors becomes a landmark event within the gay rights movement. ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Thank you. Thank you. You commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns. I did not expect this, but I, and I want it to be very clear, that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me often. But I am touched by the appreciation and I hoped for it enough that I did want to scribble down, so I had the names in case you were commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns, and so I want to thank my best friend, Sata Matsuzawa. My circle of long-time support, Mara, Brian, Barry and Bob. The great Cleve Jones. Our wonderful writer, Lance Black. Producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks. And particularly, as all, as actors know, our director either has the patience, talent and restraint to grant us a voice or they don’t, and it goes from the beginning of the meeting, through the cutting room
Performance by an actor in a leading role * Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films) * Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal) * Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features) * Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.) * Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight) Performance by an actor in a supporting role * Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features) * Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount) * Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax) * Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.) * Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage) Performance by an actress in a leading role * Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics) * Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal) * Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics) * Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax) * Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) Performance by an a
