The 81st annual Academy Awards will be held on Thursday morning. Until then, the nominations made for the event showed that Brad Pitt’s “The Curios Case of Benjamin Button” picked up 13 nominations, including the Best Picture. Nevertheless, this year strikes about the nominations’ variety, unlike last year, when there was an exact type of movie to win.

The big studio movie “Benjamin Button” together with the partly-spoken in Hindi and Golden Globe awarded, “Slumdog Millionaire,” were on first and second place when it came to nominations. “Slumdog” had 10 nominations after it had already won 4 Golden Globes.

“Milk,” the entry from Focus Features, which tells the story of Harvey Milk, the first gay activist, and its popularity, grabbed 8 nominations, among which Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Despite the fact that the movie had been almost ignored at the Golden Globes, it seems that it will have more good luck on Thursday.

 “The Curios Case of Benjamin Button” is one of Pitt’s most interesting roles. The movie is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1921 book of the same name. Directed by David Fincher, written by Eric Roth and starring Pitt and Cate Blanchett, the movie was released on December 25, 2008 by Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros.

It’s a fact that the mysterious movie caught a lot of attention at it told a story inside another story. A dying woman calls her daughter on her deathbed as Hurricane Katrina approached in August 2005 to tell her a narrative about the clockmaker Gateau.

This clockmaker was supposed to create a clock for the New Orleans train station and he went on with it even if during the time it created it, he had received the news about his son’s death in World War I. Yet, Gateau created the clock to run backward for the hope of bringing back the people who died in the war.

Coming back to 2005, the dying woman asks her daughter to read from a diary which contained photos and postcards written and sent by Benjamin Button. After the story goes to Button’s point of view, the World War I ends just when a baby boy is born with the appearance and physical limitations of a man who is 86 years old.

His mother dies soon after the birth and his father abandons him on the porch of a nursing home. After a woman adopts him and calls him Benjamin, his life starts to run backwards.

Yet, the poorest nominated movie for the Oscars was “Revolutionary Road,” which brings back together Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie received only a Best Supporting Actor Nomination for Michael Shannon. Winslet had five Oscar nominations until now and failed to win each one of them, in spite of her acclaimed work.