Heath Ledger won a posthumous Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor in what was a bittersweet moment for his family and those who knew him.
Kate Winslet and Sean Penn took home the top acting honors at the Oscars, respectively, while Slumdog Millionaire won pretty much everything else.
There were plenty of other honors (and Academy Awards fashion hits and misses) marking one of the biggest nights in all of entertainment.
Follow the jump to read the full list of winners ...
BEST PICTURE
Slumdog Millionaire
LEAD ACTOR
Sean Penn, Milk
LEAD ACTRESS
Kate Winslet, The Reader
DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Departures
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
ANIMATED FEATURE
Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Kunio Kato, La Maison en Petits Cubes
ART DIRECTION
Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
COSTUME DESIGN
Michael O'Connor for The Duchess
MAKEUP
Greg Cannom, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
LIVE ACTION SHORT FIRM
Jochen Alexander Freydank, Spielzeugland (Toyland)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
James Marsh and Simon Chinn, Man on Wire
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Megan Mylan, Smile Pinki
VISUAL EFFECTS
Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
SOUND EDITING
Richard King, The Dark Knight
SOUND MIXING
Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty, Slumdog Millionaire
FILM EDITING
Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire
ORIGINAL SCORE
A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
ORIGINAL SONG
"Jai Ho," from Slumdog Millionaire
