The 81st Academy Awards belonged to the Brits last night as Kate Winslett finally clinches the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Reader, after being nominated 5 times before. 

Slumdog Millionaire also triumphed again trouncing the awards season and sccoping 8 out of its 10 nominations, including Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for Danny Boyle.

Although Mickey Rourke was widely tipped for Best Actor, the accolade went to Academy Award winner Sean Penn for his role as gay rights activist Harvey Milk.

The late Heath Ledger rightly won a posthumous Oscar for his role as The Joker in The Dark Knight. The actor's family received the award on behalf of Heath Ledger, who sadly died in January 2008.

Whilst the stars are still out celebrating we take a look at who won what at this years Awards. And the Oscar goes to ....

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor"
Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon"
Sean Penn in "Milk"
Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler"

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Josh Brolin in "Milk"
Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder"
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt"
Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight"
Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road"

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married"
Angelina Jolie in "Changeling"
Melissa Leo in "Frozen River"
Meryl Streep in "Doubt"
Kate Winslet in "The Reader"

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams in "Doubt"
Pen�lope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Viola Davis in "Doubt"
Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR
"Bolt" (Walt Disney)
"Kung Fu Panda" (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount)
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney)

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
"Changeling" Art Direction: James J. Murakami
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt
"The Dark Knight" Art Direction: Nathan Crowley
"The Duchess" Art Direction: Michael Carlin
"Revolutionary Road" Art Direction: Kristi Zea

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Changeling" Tom Stern
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Claudio Miranda
"The Dark Knight" Wally Pfister
"The Reader" Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
"Slumdog Millionaire" Anthony Dod Mantle

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
"Australia" Catherine Martin
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Jacqueline West
"The Duchess" Michael O'Connor
"Milk" Danny Glicker
"Revolutionary Road" Albert Wolsky

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" David Fincher
"Frost/Nixon" Ron Howard
"Milk" Gus Van Sant
"The Reader" Stephen Daldry
"Slumdog Millionaire" Danny Boyle

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
"Encounters at the End of the World" Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
"The Garden" Scott Hamilton Kennedy
"Man on Wire" James Marsh and Simon Chinn
"Trouble the Water" Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"The Conscience of Nhem En" Steven Okazaki
"The Final Inch" Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
"Smile Pinki" Megan Mylan
"The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306" Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"The Dark Knight" Lee Smith
"Frost/Nixon" Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
"Milk" Elliot Graham
"Slumdog Millionaire" Chris Dickens

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" Germany
"The Class" France
"Departures" Japan
"Revanche" Austria
"Waltz with Bashir" Israel

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE-UP
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Greg Cannom
"The Dark Knight" John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MORION PICTURES (Original score)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Alexandre Desplat
"Defiance" James Newton Howard
"Milk" Danny Elfman
"Slumdog Millionaire" A.R. Rahman
"WALL-E" Thomas Newman

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES (Original song)
"Down to Earth" from "WALL-E"
"Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire"
"O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire"

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"Frost/Nixon"
"Milk"
"The Reader"
"Slumdog Millionaire"

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"La Maison en Petits Cubes"
"Lavatory - Lovestory" Konstantin Bronzit
"Oktapodi" Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
"Presto" Doug Sweetland
"This Way Up" Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
"Auf der Strecke (On the Line)" Reto Caffi
"Manon on the Asphalt" Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
"New Boy" Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
"The Pig" Tivi Magnusson and Dorte H�gh
"Spielzeugland (Toyland)" Jochen Alexander Freydank

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
"The Dark Knight" Richard King
"Iron Man" Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
"Slumdog Millionaire" Tom Sayers
"WALL-E" Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
"Wanted" Wylie Stateman

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
"The Dark Knight" Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
"Slumdog Millionaire" Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
"WALL-E" Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
"Wanted" Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Monta�o and Petr Forejt

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
"The Dark Knight" Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
"Iron Man" John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" Eric Roth
"Doubt" John Patrick Shanley
"Frost/Nixon" Peter Morgan
"The Reader" David Hare
"Slumdog Millionaire" Simon Beaufoy

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"Frozen River" Courtney Hunt
"Happy-Go-Lucky" Mike Leigh
"In Bruges" Martin McDonagh
"Milk" Dustin Lance Black
"WALL-E" Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon