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The Academy Awards for Best Score awards the film's composer for music written specifically for the movie. It is one of two awards for film music; the other one is the Academy Award for best song. A.R. Rahman of Slumdog Millionaire was the winner of the 2009 Academy Award for Best Score, announced at the Academy Awards Ceremony on February 22, 2009. Other nominees were the original scores of the movies The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Defiance, Milk, and Wall-E.
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Fast Facts
- Winner: Slumdog Millionaire, music by A.R. Rahman
- Presenter: Zac Efron and Alicia Keys
- Nominations announced: January 22, 2009
- Award time: February 22, 2009, 5 p.m. PST
- Network: ABC
- Host: Hugh Jackman
- Voted on by members of the Academy Film and Television Arts and Sciences
- Last year's winner: Atonement, original score by Dario Marianelli
- Awarded to the composer of the original score for the movie
- There is also an award for original song
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The Nominees
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, music by Alexandre Desplat
- Defiance, music by James Newton Howard
- Milk, music by Danny Elfman
- Slumdog Millionaire, music by A.R. Rahman - Winner
- Wall-E, music by Thomas Newman
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Past Winners
- 2007: Atonement
- 2006: Babel
- 2005: Brokeback Mountain
- 2004: Finding Neverland
- 2003: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- 2002: Frida
- 2001: Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- 2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- 1999: The Red Violin
- 1998: Shakespeare in Love
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Best Score Oscar Winner 2009 Nominees
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, music by Alexandre Desplat
Milk, music by Danny Elfman
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