what awards did the curious case of benjamin button win
Best Makeup Best Visual Effects Best Art Direction
title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) text: Academy Awards the film won in three categories: "Best Achievement in Art Direction", "Best Achievement in Makeup", and "Best Achievement in Visual Effects". It was also nominated in ten other categories: "Best Motion Picture of the Year", "Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role", "Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role", "Best Achievement in Directing", "Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay", "Best Achievement in Cinematography", "Best Achievement in Film Editing", "Best Achievement in Costume Design", "Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score", and "Best Achievement in Sound Mixing". Taraji P. Henson won "Best Actress" at title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) text: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy romantic drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as the love interest throughout his life. The film was released in North America on December 25, 2008 to positive reviews. The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Fincher, Best title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) text: Actor for Pitt, and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects. In August 2005, elderly Daisy Fuller is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Katrina approaches. She tells her daughter, Caroline, about a train station built in 1918 and the blind clockmaker, Mr. Gateau, who was hired to make a clock for it. When it was unveiled at the station, the public was surprised to see the clock running backwards. Mr. Gateau says he made it that way as a memorial, so that title: David Fincher text: studio, expectations surrounding Robert Downey, Jr.'s supporting performance, Fincher's direction and Vanderbilt's adapted script, the film did not earn a single Oscar nomination. A story about life and death, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story of the same name. The film was Fincher's third with Brad Pitt. The film started shooting in November 2006 in New Orleans, before moving on to the Virgin Islands, Montreal, and L.A. Both "Zodiac" and this film are co-productions of Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. The budget for the film was estimated at $150 million, partly title: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film) text: not work out how to make the story work. The film was optioned in 1991 by Steven Spielberg, with Tom Cruise attached for the lead role, but Spielberg left the project to direct "Jurassic Park" and "Schindler's List". Other directors attached were Patrick Read Johnson and Agnieszka Holland. Stark eventually sold the rights to producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, who took the film to Paramount Pictures, with Universal Pictures still on as a co-production partner. By summer 1994, Maryland Film Office chief Jack Gerbes was approached with the possibility of making the film in Baltimore. In October 1998, screenwriter