And the Oscar noms are in!

Just a month to go until the 81st Academy Awards, and the nominations were announced this morning.

What will shock no-one: Heath Ledger is nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

However, The Dark Knight didn’t get a Best Picture or a Best Director nomination, as many had speculated it would. Instead, The Reader became the dark-horse fifth nominee, joining Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, and Milk. I was also surprised that The Dark Knight didn’t get a Best Original Score nomination.

In overall tallies, Benjamin Button leads, with 13 nominations. Slumdog Millionaire follows behind with 10, though two of those are in the Best Original Song category, meaning it can only win a total of 9. (Note: if the split vote causes the song from WALL-E to win, I will eat my hat. And be very unhappy.) Hey, at least we’re guaranteed a Bollywood number during the ceremony!