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Milk's screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black, picked up the Best Original Screenplay, and gave a passionate speech about equality, and a promise to young people that "we will have equal rights."
Nomination list is below the fold. All of the winners are here, updated as they are announced.
Best Motion Picture of the Year
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire
Achievement in Directing
* David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
* Gus Van Sant, Milk
* Stephen Daldry, The Reader
* Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
* Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
* Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
* Sean Penn, Milk
* Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
* Josh Brolin, Milk
* Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
* Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
* Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
* Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
* Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
* Angelina Jolie, Changeling
* Melissa Leo, Frozen River
* Kate Winslet. The Reader
* Meryl Streep, Doubt
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
* Amy Adams, Doubt
* Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* Viola Davis, Doubt
* Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
* Bolt
* Kung Fu Panda
* Wall-E
Original Screenplay
* Dustin Lance Black, Milk
* Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
* Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
* Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
* Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon, WALL-E
Adapted Screenplay
* Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
* Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
* David Hare, The Reader
* Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
* The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
* The Class (France)
* Departures (Japan)
* Revanche (Austria)
* Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
Original Score
* Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* James Newton Howard, Defiance
* Danny Elfman, Milk
* A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
* Thomas Newman, WALL-E
Original Song
* "Down to Earth," Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; WALL-E
* "Jai Ho," A.R. Rahman and Gulzar; Slumdog Millionaire
* "O Saya," A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam; Slumdog Millionaire
Achievement in Art Direction
* Changeling
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* The Duchess
* Revolutionary Road
Achievement in Cinematography
* Changeling
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire
Achievement in Costume Design
* Australia
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Duchess
* Milk
* Revolutionary Road
Best Documentary Feature
* The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
* Encounters at the End of the World
* The Garden
* Man on Wire
* Trouble the Water
Best Documentary Short Subject
* The Conscience of Nhem En
* The Final Inch
* Smile Pinki
* The Witness-From the Balcony of Room 306
Achievement in Film Editing
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* Slumdog Millionaire
Achievement in Makeup
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* Slumdog Millionaire
Best Animated Short Film
* La Maison en Petits Cubes
* Lavatory-Lovestory
* Oktapodi
* Presto
* This Way Up
Best Live Action Short Film
* Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
* Manon on the Asphalt
* New Boy
* The Pig
* Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Achievement in Sound Editing
* The Dark Knight
* Iron Man
* Slumdog Millionaire
* WALL-E
* Wanted
Achievement in Sound Mixing
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Slumdog Millionaire
* WALL-E
* Wanted
Achievement in Visual Effects
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Iron Man
Cross posted at http://www.tips-q.com/content/afa-michigan-has-conspiracy-theory
The saga continues. Weeks before AFA founder, Don Wildmon released his latest book titled "Speechless - Silencing the Christians," AFA created a website that provides a video of the same title. Then they purchased TV time to air the video. Neither the web site nor the video had included any mention of the forthcoming book. The video is a mangled and incoherent attack on the GLBT community. It is predicated on the preposterous theory that 
the 1989 book "After the Ball" constitutes the "homosexual agenda." The whole thing is rather silly. It makes much more sense when you realize that the web site and infomercials were intended to market Wildmon's tome. By the way the forward was written by none other than the ultimate economic opportunist --- Ann Coulter. That makes sense when you consider that Coulter's hero is Tailgunner Joe McCarthy. Oh well. I digress.
The American Family Association's Michigan "franchise" is suggesting that WOOD-TV refused to air the infomercial because of the influence of a former staffer who is now with the Human Rights Campaign. One of the more amusing claims is "The broader question raised by that relationship and your censorship of AFA's pro-family documentary is whether viewers can trust WOOD-TV to be a fair and impartial source of news regarding the homosexual agenda."
Of course that presupposes that the so-called "homosexual agenda" is credible and anything more than a scare tactic of the radical Christian right. It also presupposes that the station's Standards & Practices with respect to infomercials has some correlation to the station's news division.
AFA-Michigan President Gary Glenn said in a statement delivered Thursday to WOOD-TV General Manager Diane Kniowski that "the irony of station management's on-again, off-again gymnastics was so transparent that it would be amusing if the issues addressed by the documentary were not so serious."
"The documentary details the threat homosexual activists' political agenda poses to religious freedom and such activists' efforts to demonize, silence, and eventually criminalize any expression of public opposition to that agenda," Glenn wrote Kniowski. "Its title is 'Speechless: Silencing the Christians,' and your capitulation or perhaps even collusion with homosexual activists' demands that you censor and cancel the broadcast proves the point. To reassure the public that WOOD-TV is not in collusion with homosexual activists, including a former high-level WOOD-TV staffer, we urge you to reconsider your decision."
Glenn wrote Kniowski that he "initially thought station management's clumsy path to censorship resulted from a combination of politically correct handwringing, lack of professional objectivity, or perhaps even incompetence."
"Now, however, we learn that a public spokesman for the so-called Human Rights Campaign - the national homosexual activist group that claimed credit for pressuring your station to censor and breach its agreement to air AFA's paid documentary - is a former long-time WOOD-TV newsroom executive who while holding that position was allowed by the station to actively and publicly campaign against the Marriage Protection Amendment approved by Michigan voters in 2004," Glenn wrote.
"That new information leads us to question whether the real story is that WOOD-TV management was unduly influenced by or even acted in collusion with a former high-level staffer who you allowed to openly campaign for homosexual activists' political agenda while with the station and who now promotes that agenda full-time nationwide," Glenn wrote. "The broader question raised by that relationship and your censorship of AFA's pro-family documentary is whether viewers can trust WOOD-TV to be a fair and impartial source of news regarding the homosexual agenda."
According to HRC's website: "Trevor Thomas joined the Human Rights Campaign in October of 2007 as Deputy Communications Director. Prior to HRC, Thomas worked for Michigan Governor Jennifer M. Granholm, serving in her executive office. ... Thomas, a journalist by trade, worked as an assignment editor and news producer at West Michigan's NBC affiliate - WOOD-TV. In this role, he helped cover state and national stories, including the 2004 presidential election, the 2002 state gubernatorial election and the attacks on September 11, 2001. He also previously served as a producer/reporter at WGVU - the NPR/PBS affiliate."
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