National Board of Review
Awards for 2008:
Best Film
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Top Ten Films
(In alphabetical order) BURN AFTER READING, CHANGELING, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, THE DARK KNIGHT, DEFIANCE, FROST/NIXON, GRAN TORINO, MILK, WALL-E, THE WRESTLER
Best Foreign Language Film
MONGOL
Top Five Foreign Films
(In alphabetical order) THE EDGE OF HEAVEN, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, ROMAN DE GARE, A SECRET, WALTZ WITH BASHIR
Best Documentary
MAN ON WIRE
Top Five Documentaries
(In alphabetical order) AMERICAN TEEN, THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON), DEAR ZACHARY, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD, ROMAN POLANSKI: WANTED AND DESIRED
Top Independent Films
(In alphabetical order) FROZEN RIVER, IN BRUGES, IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS, MR. FOE, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, SNOW ANGELS, SON OF RAMBOW, WENDY AND LUCY, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, THE VISITOR
Best Actor
CLINT EASTWOOD, Gran Torino
Best Actress
ANNE HATHAWAY, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor
JOSH BROLIN, Milk
Best Supporting Actress
PENELOPE CRUZ, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Ensemble Cast
DOUBT
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor
DEV PATEL, Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
VIOLA DAVIS, Doubt
Best Director
DAVID FINCHER, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Directorial Debut
COURTNEY HUNT, Frozen River
Best Adapted Screenplay
SIMON BEAUFOY, Slumdog Millionaire and ERIC ROTH, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spotlight Award
MELISSA LEO, Frozen River and RICHARD JENKINS, The Visitor
Best Original Screenplay
NICK SCHENK, Gran Torino
Best Animated Feature
WALL-E
William K. Everson Award For Film History
MOLLY HASKELL and ANDREW SARRIS
The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression
TRUMBO
Full Version: Award season
LOS ANGELES, DECEMBER 9, 2008 "Wall-E" was voted Best Picture of the Year, it was announced today by Lael Loewenstein, President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). The runner up was "The Dark Knight."
LAFCA's 34th annual achievement awards ceremony will be held Monday, January 12 at the InterContinental Los Angeles. The 34th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards are dedicated to Manoel de Oliveira for his extraordinary contribution to the cinema as he enters his 100th year.
Other award winners are:
DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, "The Dark Knight”
ACTRESS: Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Runner-up: Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
ACTOR: Sean Penn, “Milk”
Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
SCREENPLAY: Mike Leigh, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, "Synecdoche, New York"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "Elegy"
Runner-up: Viola Davis, "Doubt"
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Runner-up: Eddie Marsan, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "Still Life“ directed by Jia Zhangke
Runner-up: "The Class" directed by Laurent Cantet
DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM: "Man on Wire" directed by James Marsh
Runner-up: "Waltz with Bashir" directed by Ari Folman
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Mark Friedberg, "Synecdoche, New York"
Runner-up: Nathan Crowley, "The Dark Knight"
ANIMATION: “Waltz with Bashir"
MUSIC/SCORE: A.R. Rahman, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yu Lik Wai, "Still Life"
Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
NEW GENERATION: Steve McQueen, “Hunger”
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: John Calley (previously announced)
DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: James Benning, “RR”
and “Casting a Glance”
Founded in 1975, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is comprised of Los Angeles-based, professional film critics working in the Los Angeles print and electronic media. Each December, LAFCA members vote on the year’s Achievement Awards, honoring screen excellence on both sides of the camera. Plaques of recognition are then presented to winners during LAFCA’s annual awards ceremony, held in mid-January.
Aside from honoring each year’s outstanding cinematic achievements, LAFCA has also made it a point to look back and pay tribute to distinguished industry veterans with its annual Career Achievement Award, which is announced in October, as well as to look forward by spotlighting fresh, promising talent with its annual New Generation Award. In addition, over the past three decades, LAFCA has sponsored and hosted numerous film panels and events and donated funds to various Los Angeles film organizations, especially where film preservation was concerned. LAFCA members have also collectively been vocal about taking up causes they have felt passionate about, from drafting formal protests against censorship and colorization to lending their support to controversial films.
LAFCA's 34th annual achievement awards ceremony will be held Monday, January 12 at the InterContinental Los Angeles. The 34th annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards are dedicated to Manoel de Oliveira for his extraordinary contribution to the cinema as he enters his 100th year.
Other award winners are:
DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, "The Dark Knight”
ACTRESS: Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Runner-up: Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
ACTOR: Sean Penn, “Milk”
Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
SCREENPLAY: Mike Leigh, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, "Synecdoche, New York"
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "Elegy"
Runner-up: Viola Davis, "Doubt"
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Runner-up: Eddie Marsan, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "Still Life“ directed by Jia Zhangke
Runner-up: "The Class" directed by Laurent Cantet
DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM: "Man on Wire" directed by James Marsh
Runner-up: "Waltz with Bashir" directed by Ari Folman
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Mark Friedberg, "Synecdoche, New York"
Runner-up: Nathan Crowley, "The Dark Knight"
ANIMATION: “Waltz with Bashir"
MUSIC/SCORE: A.R. Rahman, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yu Lik Wai, "Still Life"
Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
NEW GENERATION: Steve McQueen, “Hunger”
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: John Calley (previously announced)
DOUGLAS E. EDWARDS INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO: James Benning, “RR”
and “Casting a Glance”
Founded in 1975, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is comprised of Los Angeles-based, professional film critics working in the Los Angeles print and electronic media. Each December, LAFCA members vote on the year’s Achievement Awards, honoring screen excellence on both sides of the camera. Plaques of recognition are then presented to winners during LAFCA’s annual awards ceremony, held in mid-January.
Aside from honoring each year’s outstanding cinematic achievements, LAFCA has also made it a point to look back and pay tribute to distinguished industry veterans with its annual Career Achievement Award, which is announced in October, as well as to look forward by spotlighting fresh, promising talent with its annual New Generation Award. In addition, over the past three decades, LAFCA has sponsored and hosted numerous film panels and events and donated funds to various Los Angeles film organizations, especially where film preservation was concerned. LAFCA members have also collectively been vocal about taking up causes they have felt passionate about, from drafting formal protests against censorship and colorization to lending their support to controversial films.
NY Film Critics 2008 Awards
Best Actress Sally Hawkins Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Screenplay Jenny Lumet Rachel Getting Married
Best Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle Slumdog Millionaire
Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin Milk
Best Animated Film WALL-E
Best Director Mike Leigh Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best First Film Courtney Hunt Frozen River
Best Foreign Film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Best Actor Sean Penn Milk
Best Documentary Man on Wire
Best Picture Milk
Best Actress Sally Hawkins Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Screenplay Jenny Lumet Rachel Getting Married
Best Cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle Slumdog Millionaire
Best Supporting Actor Josh Brolin Milk
Best Animated Film WALL-E
Best Director Mike Leigh Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best First Film Courtney Hunt Frozen River
Best Foreign Film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Best Actor Sean Penn Milk
Best Documentary Man on Wire
Best Picture Milk
holy crap, sally is doing so good. i liked her performance but i dunno. ah well, i guess it was a weak year for best actress anyway. so good for her.
Actually quite the opposite – this year there were more than normal vying and worthy.
oh shuttup mary mary quite contrary.
LOL! Not trying to be contrary - you know I hate that. Just saying there are some serious contenders this year.
Winslet (twice)
Streep
Hawkins
Beckinsale
Williams
Jolie
Scott Thomas
Hathaway
Leo
Knightly
Et al.
Usually there are 4 that are locks and then an iffy candidate. This year it's all over the map.
Winslet (twice)
Streep
Hawkins
Beckinsale
Williams
Jolie
Scott Thomas
Hathaway
Leo
Knightly
Et al.
Usually there are 4 that are locks and then an iffy candidate. This year it's all over the map.
Boy, I guess I just don't care about the movies anymore-I haven't seen a single one of these films & aside from MILK, I just don't have much interest.
I've only heard of about 65-75% of the movies listed. I care about movies, but I've been so busy with school that I just haven't had time to read EW (which is where I get pretty much all my entertainment news) and I really haven't had time to go to the movies. It actually makes me kind of sad that I feel kind of disconnected from the whole movie thing right now. I can't wait until I'm done with school. Then I can spend my time reading about stuff I actually care about and which interests me. But, as it is right now, I just haven't had the time this semester.
Poor poopsie, that's sad.
And no offense, but if a black perosn said "I only have interest in seeing "insert black themed movie here" I would find that equally sad.
For most of us movies are our only way of learning about others.
And no offense, but if a black perosn said "I only have interest in seeing "insert black themed movie here" I would find that equally sad.
For most of us movies are our only way of learning about others.
jolie has no chance. that movie is a flop.
She has been on alot of "best" lists, but yes - she has no chance.
HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION 2008 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS NOMINATIONS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2008
1. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMATHE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures
FROST/NIXON
Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Pictures
THE READER
Mirage Enterprises; The Weinstein Company
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
An Evamere Entertainment BBC Films Neal Street Production; DreamWorks Pictures in Association with BBC Films and Paramount Vantage
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.; Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.
2. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMAANNE HATHAWAY – RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
ANGELINA JOLIE – CHANGELING
MERYL STREEP – DOUBT
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)
KATE WINSLET – REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
3. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMALEONARDO DICAPRIO – REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
FRANK LANGELLA – FROST/NIXON
SEAN PENN – MILK
BRAD PITT – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
MICKEY ROURKE – THE WRESTLER
4. BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICALBURN AFTER READING
Working Title/Releasing Company; Focus Features in association with Studio Canal
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Summit Entertainment, Film4, Ingenious Film Partners, Miramax Films; Miramax Films
IN BRUGES
Blueprint Pictures; Focus Features
MAMMA MIA!
Relativity Media, Playtone, Littlestar; Universal Pictures
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
Mediapro; The Weinstein Company
5.BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICALREBECCA HALL – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
SALLY HAWKINS – HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
FRANCES MCDORMAND – BURN AFTER READING
MERYL STREEP – MAMMA MIA!
EMMA THOMPSON – LAST CHANCE HARVEY
6. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICALJAVIER BARDEM – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
COLIN FARRELL – IN BRUGES
JAMES FRANCO – PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
BRENDAN GLEESON – IN BRUGES
DUSTIN HOFFMAN – LAST CHANCE HARVEY
7. BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM BOLT
Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
KUNG FU PANDA
DreamWorks Animation SKG; Paramount Pictures
WALL-E
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
8. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMTHE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (GERMANY)
(DER BADDER MEINHOF KOMPLEX)
Constantin Film Produktion GmbH; Summit Entertainment, LLC
EVERLASTING MOMENTS (SWEDEN/DENMARK)
(MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK)
Final Cut Productions Aps; IFC Films
GOMORRAH (ITALY)
(GOMORRA)
Fandango; IFC Films
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (FRANCE)
(IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)
UGC YM/UGC Images/France 3 Cinema/Integral Film; Sony Pictures Classics
WALTZ WITH BASHIR (ISRAEL)
Bridgit Folman Film Gang/Les Films D'Ici/Razor Films/Arte France/ITVS International; Sony Pictures Classics
9. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTUREAMY ADAMS – DOUBT
PENELOPE CRUZ – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
VIOLA DAVIS –DOUBT
MARISA TOMEI – THE WRESTLER
KATE WINSLET – THE READER
10. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURETOM CRUISE – TROPIC THUNDER
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. –TROPIC THUNDER
RALPH FIENNES – THE DUCHESS
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – DOUBT
HEATH LEDGER – THE DARK KNIGHT
11. BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTUREDANNY BOYLE – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
STEPHEN DALDRY – THE READER
DAVID FINCHER – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
RON HOWARD – FROST/NIXON
SAM MENDES – REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
12. BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURESIMON BEAUFOY – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
DAVID HARE – THE READER
PETER MORGAN – FROST/NIXON
ERIC ROTH – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY – DOUBT
13. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTUREALEXANDRE DESPLAT –THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
CLINT EASTWOOD – CHANGELING
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD – DEFIANCE
A. R. RAHMAN – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
HANS ZIMMER – FROST/NIXON
14. BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE “DOWN TO EARTH” — WALL-E
Music by: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman
Lyrics by: Peter Gabriel
“GRAN TORINO” — GRAN TORINO
Music by: Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens
Lyrics by: Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens
“I THOUGHT I LOST YOU” — BOLT
Music & Lyrics by: Miley Cyrus, Jeffrey Steele
“ONCE IN A LIFETIME” — CADILLAC RECORDS
Music & Lyrics by: Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarnon, Ian Dench, James Dring, Jody Street
“THE WRESTLER” — THE WRESTLER
Music & Lyrics by: Bruce Springsteen
15. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMADEXTER (SHOWTIME)
Showtime/John Goldwyn Productions/The Colleton Company/Clyde Phillips Productions
HOUSE (FOX)
Universal Media Studios in association with Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry Productions
IN TREATMENT (HBO)
Sheleg, Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
MAD MEN (AMC)
Lionsgate Television
TRUE BLOOD (HBO)
Your Face Goes Here Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
16. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA SALLY FIELD – BROTHERS AND SISTERS
MARISKA HARGITAY –LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
JANUARY JONES – MAD MEN
ANNA PAQUIN – TRUE BLOOD
KYRA SEDGWICK – THE CLOSER
17. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMAGABRIEL BYRNE – IN TREATMENT
MICHAEL C. HALL – DEXTER
JON HAMM – MAD MEN
HUGH LAURIE – HOUSE
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS – THE TUDORS
18. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL30 ROCK (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.
CALIFORNICATION (SHOWTIME)
Showtime Presents in association with Aggressive Mediocrity, And Then...
ENTOURAGE (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
THE OFFICE (NBC)
Deedle Dee Productions, Reveille LLC, Universal Media Studios
WEEDS (SHOWTIME)
Lionsgate Television
19.BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –COMEDY OR MUSICALCHRISTINA APPLEGATE – SAMANTHA WHO?
AMERICA FERRERA – UGLY BETTY
TINA FEY – 30 ROCK
DEBRA MESSING – THE STARTER WIFE
MARY-LOUISE PARKER – WEEDS
20. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICALALEC BALDWIN – 30 ROCK
STEVE CARELL – THE OFFICE
KEVIN CONNOLLY – ENTOURAGE
DAVID DUCHOVNY – CALIFORNICATION
TONY SHALHOUB – MONK
21. BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONA RAISIN IN THE SUN (ABC)
Sony Pictures Television
BERNARD AND DORIS (HBO
Trigger Street Independent Productions in association with Little Bird and Chicago Films and HBO Films
CRANFORD (PBS)
A Co-Production of BBC and WGBH Boston.
JOHN ADAMS (HBO)
Playtone in association with HBO Films
RECOUNT (HBO)
Spring Creek/Mirage Productions in association with Trigger Street Productions, Everyman Pictures and HBO Films
22. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONJUDI DENCH – CRANFORD
CATHERINE KEENER – AN AMERICAN CRIME
LAURA LINNEY – JOHN ADAMS
SHIRLEY MACLAINE – COCO CHANEL
SUSAN SARANDON – BERNARD AND DORIS
23. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONRALPH FIENNES – BERNARD AND DORIS
PAUL GIAMATTI – JOHN ADAMS
KEVIN SPACEY – RECOUNT
KIEFER SUTHERLAND – 24: REDEMPTION
TOM WILKINSON – RECOUNT
24. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONEILEEN ATKINS – CRANFORD
LAURA DERN – RECOUNT
MELISSA GEORGE – IN TREATMENT
RACHEL GRIFFITHS – BROTHERS AND SISTERS
DIANNE WIEST – IN TREATMENT
25. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONNEIL PATRICK HARRIS – HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
DENIS LEARY – RECOUNT
JEREMY PIVEN – ENTOURAGE
BLAIR UNDERWOOD – IN TREATMENT
TOM WILKINSON – JOHN ADAMS
NOMINATIONS BY MOTION PICTURE STUDIOS AND TELEVISION NETWORKSMOTION PICTURE STUDIOS
Warner Bros. Pictures 11
Universal Pictures 9
The Weinstein Company 8
Fox Searchlight Pictures 7
Miramax Films 7
DreamWorks Pictures 6
Focus Features 6
Paramount Pictures 6
Paramount Vantage 6
BBC Films 5
Sony Pictures Classics 4
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 4
IFC Films 2
Overture Films 2
Sony Pictures Releasing 2
Studio Canal 2
Pathe 1
Summit Entertainment, LLC 1
Village Roadshow 1
TELEVISION NETWORKS
HBO 22
SHOWTIME 8
NBC 6
ABC 5
AMC 5
FOX 3
PBS 3
USA NETWORK 2
CBS 1
LIFETIME TELEVISION 1
TNT 1
NOMINATIONS BY MOTION PICTURE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON 5
DOUBT 5
FROST/NIXON 5
THE READER 4
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD 4
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 4
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA 4
IN BRUGES 3
THE WRESTLER 3
BOLT 2
BURN AFTER READING 2
CHANGELING 2
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY 2
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T'AIME) 2
LAST CHANCE HARVEY 2
MAMMA MIA! 2
TROPIC THUNDER 2
WALL-E 2
BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (DER BADDER MEINHOF KOMPLEX) 1
CADILLAC RECORDS 1
THE DARK KNIGHT 1
DEFIANCE 1
THE DUCHESS 1
EVERLASTING MOMENTS (MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK) 1
GOMORRAH (GOMORRA) 1
GRAN TORINO 1
KUNG FU PANDA 1
MILK 1
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 1
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED 1
WALTZ WITH BASHIR 1
NOMINATIONS BY TELEVISION SERIES OR PROGRAM
IN TREATMENT 5
RECOUNT 5
JOHN ADAMS 4
30 ROCK 3
BERNARD AND DORIS 3
CRANFORD 3
ENTOURAGE 3
MAD MEN 3
BROTHERS AND SISTERS 2
CALIFORNICATION 2
DEXTER 2
HOUSE 2
THE OFFICE 2
TRUE BLOOD 2
WEEDS 2
24: REDEMPTION 1
A RAISIN IN THE SUN 1
AN AMERICAN CRIME 1
CLOSER, THE 1
COCO CHANEL 1
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER 1
LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT 1
MONK 1
SAMANTHA WHO? 1
THE STARTER WIFE 1
UGLY BETTY
1. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMATHE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures
FROST/NIXON
Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Pictures
THE READER
Mirage Enterprises; The Weinstein Company
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
An Evamere Entertainment BBC Films Neal Street Production; DreamWorks Pictures in Association with BBC Films and Paramount Vantage
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.; Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.
2. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMAANNE HATHAWAY – RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
ANGELINA JOLIE – CHANGELING
MERYL STREEP – DOUBT
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)
KATE WINSLET – REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
3. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMALEONARDO DICAPRIO – REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
FRANK LANGELLA – FROST/NIXON
SEAN PENN – MILK
BRAD PITT – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
MICKEY ROURKE – THE WRESTLER
4. BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICALBURN AFTER READING
Working Title/Releasing Company; Focus Features in association with Studio Canal
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
Summit Entertainment, Film4, Ingenious Film Partners, Miramax Films; Miramax Films
IN BRUGES
Blueprint Pictures; Focus Features
MAMMA MIA!
Relativity Media, Playtone, Littlestar; Universal Pictures
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
Mediapro; The Weinstein Company
5.BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICALREBECCA HALL – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
SALLY HAWKINS – HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
FRANCES MCDORMAND – BURN AFTER READING
MERYL STREEP – MAMMA MIA!
EMMA THOMPSON – LAST CHANCE HARVEY
6. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICALJAVIER BARDEM – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
COLIN FARRELL – IN BRUGES
JAMES FRANCO – PINEAPPLE EXPRESS
BRENDAN GLEESON – IN BRUGES
DUSTIN HOFFMAN – LAST CHANCE HARVEY
7. BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM BOLT
Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
KUNG FU PANDA
DreamWorks Animation SKG; Paramount Pictures
WALL-E
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
8. BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMTHE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (GERMANY)
(DER BADDER MEINHOF KOMPLEX)
Constantin Film Produktion GmbH; Summit Entertainment, LLC
EVERLASTING MOMENTS (SWEDEN/DENMARK)
(MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK)
Final Cut Productions Aps; IFC Films
GOMORRAH (ITALY)
(GOMORRA)
Fandango; IFC Films
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (FRANCE)
(IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)
UGC YM/UGC Images/France 3 Cinema/Integral Film; Sony Pictures Classics
WALTZ WITH BASHIR (ISRAEL)
Bridgit Folman Film Gang/Les Films D'Ici/Razor Films/Arte France/ITVS International; Sony Pictures Classics
9. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTUREAMY ADAMS – DOUBT
PENELOPE CRUZ – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
VIOLA DAVIS –DOUBT
MARISA TOMEI – THE WRESTLER
KATE WINSLET – THE READER
10. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURETOM CRUISE – TROPIC THUNDER
ROBERT DOWNEY JR. –TROPIC THUNDER
RALPH FIENNES – THE DUCHESS
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – DOUBT
HEATH LEDGER – THE DARK KNIGHT
11. BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTUREDANNY BOYLE – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
STEPHEN DALDRY – THE READER
DAVID FINCHER – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
RON HOWARD – FROST/NIXON
SAM MENDES – REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
12. BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURESIMON BEAUFOY – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
DAVID HARE – THE READER
PETER MORGAN – FROST/NIXON
ERIC ROTH – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY – DOUBT
13. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTUREALEXANDRE DESPLAT –THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
CLINT EASTWOOD – CHANGELING
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD – DEFIANCE
A. R. RAHMAN – SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
HANS ZIMMER – FROST/NIXON
14. BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE “DOWN TO EARTH” — WALL-E
Music by: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman
Lyrics by: Peter Gabriel
“GRAN TORINO” — GRAN TORINO
Music by: Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens
Lyrics by: Kyle Eastwood, Michael Stevens
“I THOUGHT I LOST YOU” — BOLT
Music & Lyrics by: Miley Cyrus, Jeffrey Steele
“ONCE IN A LIFETIME” — CADILLAC RECORDS
Music & Lyrics by: Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarnon, Ian Dench, James Dring, Jody Street
“THE WRESTLER” — THE WRESTLER
Music & Lyrics by: Bruce Springsteen
15. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMADEXTER (SHOWTIME)
Showtime/John Goldwyn Productions/The Colleton Company/Clyde Phillips Productions
HOUSE (FOX)
Universal Media Studios in association with Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry Productions
IN TREATMENT (HBO)
Sheleg, Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
MAD MEN (AMC)
Lionsgate Television
TRUE BLOOD (HBO)
Your Face Goes Here Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
16. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA SALLY FIELD – BROTHERS AND SISTERS
MARISKA HARGITAY –LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
JANUARY JONES – MAD MEN
ANNA PAQUIN – TRUE BLOOD
KYRA SEDGWICK – THE CLOSER
17. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMAGABRIEL BYRNE – IN TREATMENT
MICHAEL C. HALL – DEXTER
JON HAMM – MAD MEN
HUGH LAURIE – HOUSE
JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS – THE TUDORS
18. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL30 ROCK (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.
CALIFORNICATION (SHOWTIME)
Showtime Presents in association with Aggressive Mediocrity, And Then...
ENTOURAGE (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
THE OFFICE (NBC)
Deedle Dee Productions, Reveille LLC, Universal Media Studios
WEEDS (SHOWTIME)
Lionsgate Television
19.BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES –COMEDY OR MUSICALCHRISTINA APPLEGATE – SAMANTHA WHO?
AMERICA FERRERA – UGLY BETTY
TINA FEY – 30 ROCK
DEBRA MESSING – THE STARTER WIFE
MARY-LOUISE PARKER – WEEDS
20. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICALALEC BALDWIN – 30 ROCK
STEVE CARELL – THE OFFICE
KEVIN CONNOLLY – ENTOURAGE
DAVID DUCHOVNY – CALIFORNICATION
TONY SHALHOUB – MONK
21. BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONA RAISIN IN THE SUN (ABC)
Sony Pictures Television
BERNARD AND DORIS (HBO
Trigger Street Independent Productions in association with Little Bird and Chicago Films and HBO Films
CRANFORD (PBS)
A Co-Production of BBC and WGBH Boston.
JOHN ADAMS (HBO)
Playtone in association with HBO Films
RECOUNT (HBO)
Spring Creek/Mirage Productions in association with Trigger Street Productions, Everyman Pictures and HBO Films
22. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONJUDI DENCH – CRANFORD
CATHERINE KEENER – AN AMERICAN CRIME
LAURA LINNEY – JOHN ADAMS
SHIRLEY MACLAINE – COCO CHANEL
SUSAN SARANDON – BERNARD AND DORIS
23. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONRALPH FIENNES – BERNARD AND DORIS
PAUL GIAMATTI – JOHN ADAMS
KEVIN SPACEY – RECOUNT
KIEFER SUTHERLAND – 24: REDEMPTION
TOM WILKINSON – RECOUNT
24. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONEILEEN ATKINS – CRANFORD
LAURA DERN – RECOUNT
MELISSA GEORGE – IN TREATMENT
RACHEL GRIFFITHS – BROTHERS AND SISTERS
DIANNE WIEST – IN TREATMENT
25. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISIONNEIL PATRICK HARRIS – HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER
DENIS LEARY – RECOUNT
JEREMY PIVEN – ENTOURAGE
BLAIR UNDERWOOD – IN TREATMENT
TOM WILKINSON – JOHN ADAMS
NOMINATIONS BY MOTION PICTURE STUDIOS AND TELEVISION NETWORKSMOTION PICTURE STUDIOS
Warner Bros. Pictures 11
Universal Pictures 9
The Weinstein Company 8
Fox Searchlight Pictures 7
Miramax Films 7
DreamWorks Pictures 6
Focus Features 6
Paramount Pictures 6
Paramount Vantage 6
BBC Films 5
Sony Pictures Classics 4
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures 4
IFC Films 2
Overture Films 2
Sony Pictures Releasing 2
Studio Canal 2
Pathe 1
Summit Entertainment, LLC 1
Village Roadshow 1
TELEVISION NETWORKS
HBO 22
SHOWTIME 8
NBC 6
ABC 5
AMC 5
FOX 3
PBS 3
USA NETWORK 2
CBS 1
LIFETIME TELEVISION 1
TNT 1
NOMINATIONS BY MOTION PICTURE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON 5
DOUBT 5
FROST/NIXON 5
THE READER 4
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD 4
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE 4
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA 4
IN BRUGES 3
THE WRESTLER 3
BOLT 2
BURN AFTER READING 2
CHANGELING 2
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY 2
I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T'AIME) 2
LAST CHANCE HARVEY 2
MAMMA MIA! 2
TROPIC THUNDER 2
WALL-E 2
BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX (DER BADDER MEINHOF KOMPLEX) 1
CADILLAC RECORDS 1
THE DARK KNIGHT 1
DEFIANCE 1
THE DUCHESS 1
EVERLASTING MOMENTS (MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK) 1
GOMORRAH (GOMORRA) 1
GRAN TORINO 1
KUNG FU PANDA 1
MILK 1
PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 1
RACHEL GETTING MARRIED 1
WALTZ WITH BASHIR 1
NOMINATIONS BY TELEVISION SERIES OR PROGRAM
IN TREATMENT 5
RECOUNT 5
JOHN ADAMS 4
30 ROCK 3
BERNARD AND DORIS 3
CRANFORD 3
ENTOURAGE 3
MAD MEN 3
BROTHERS AND SISTERS 2
CALIFORNICATION 2
DEXTER 2
HOUSE 2
THE OFFICE 2
TRUE BLOOD 2
WEEDS 2
24: REDEMPTION 1
A RAISIN IN THE SUN 1
AN AMERICAN CRIME 1
CLOSER, THE 1
COCO CHANEL 1
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER 1
LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT 1
MONK 1
SAMANTHA WHO? 1
THE STARTER WIFE 1
UGLY BETTY
QUOTE (phairphreak @ Dec 10 2008, 06:04 PM) 
Poor poopsie, that's sad.
And no offense, but if a black perosn said "I only have interest in seeing "insert black themed movie here" I would find that equally sad.
For most of us movies are our only way of learning about others.
And no offense, but if a black perosn said "I only have interest in seeing "insert black themed movie here" I would find that equally sad.
For most of us movies are our only way of learning about others.
You know, if you are thinking I commented that I wanted to see "Milk" becasue it is a "gay" movie you are (as usual with postings I seem to make) really off the mark.
I honestly thought it was the only movie that seemed that interesting.
I think that was actually a pretty tacky comment on your part.
You know, you wonder why I don't want to chat to you that much & there you go...
Oh Kate don’t be so sensitive.
And I enjoy your posts, but don’t ever remember wondering why you won’t chat with me.
People can make statements without it being a dig.
And I enjoy your posts, but don’t ever remember wondering why you won’t chat with me.
People can make statements without it being a dig.
Sorry, but that sure seemed like a dig to me.
Well it was not meant to be. I know people who are like that is all. 
Trust me, you would know if it was!
Trust me, you would know if it was!
OOOOOOH dramaz!!!
i don't wanna see milk that much because i don't find sean penn sexy. i imagine him kissing james franco and i'm just ew.
but that's a worse reason than anything else.
that said, i wanna see frozen river, rachel getting married (because i like movies like that, not because i am fond of anne cause i am not).
i don't wanna see milk that much because i don't find sean penn sexy. i imagine him kissing james franco and i'm just ew.
but that's a worse reason than anything else.
that said, i wanna see frozen river, rachel getting married (because i like movies like that, not because i am fond of anne cause i am not).
No more drama please. We don't need more Tramp-like antics. Saying that though - Poopy, have a dig at meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?!?!??!?! Anything. I miss... everything.
I would love to see Rachel Getting Married. I miss good ensemble dramas.
I would love to see Rachel Getting Married. I miss good ensemble dramas.
I really don't think there's any need for worry-I just saw that comment right away this morning & I just didn't want my earlier post taken out of context (partially due to earlier incidents with someone I am never mentioning again).
I shouldn't have put my personal irritation with Phreak into the post & for that I'm sorry, but he & I are just entirely different people so sometimes we are just not going to get along.
We have co-existed here for years now & I am sure we will continue to.
From what I understand, he dreams of digging in to you, so you have no need to worry...
I shouldn't have put my personal irritation with Phreak into the post & for that I'm sorry, but he & I are just entirely different people so sometimes we are just not going to get along.
We have co-existed here for years now & I am sure we will continue to.
From what I understand, he dreams of digging in to you, so you have no need to worry...
WOW!
Happy Holidays!
Hope that doesn't offend.
Happy Holidays!
Hope that doesn't offend.
pp is such a lightning rod.
don't take "rod" out of context, maniac.
don't take "rod" out of context, maniac.
AFI AWARDS 2008
AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
GRAN TORINO
IRON MAN
MILK
WALL¥E
WENDY AND LUCY
THE WRESTLER
AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
BREAKING BAD
IN TREATMENT
JOHN ADAMS
LIFE
LOST
MAD MEN
THE OFFICE
RECOUNT
THE SHIELD
THE WIRE
AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
GRAN TORINO
IRON MAN
MILK
WALL¥E
WENDY AND LUCY
THE WRESTLER
AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
BREAKING BAD
IN TREATMENT
JOHN ADAMS
LIFE
LOST
MAD MEN
THE OFFICE
RECOUNT
THE SHIELD
THE WIRE
Actress In A Motion Picture, Drama
Angelina Jolie Changeling Universal
Actor In A Motion Picture, Drama
Richard Jenkins The Visitor Overture Films
Actress In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical
Sally Hawkins Happy-Go-Lucky Miramax Films
Actor In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical
Ricky Gervais Ghost Town DreamWorks Pictures Spyglass Entertainment
Actress In A Supporting Role
Rosemarie DeWitt Rachel Getting Married Sony Pictures Classics
Actor In A Supporting Role
Michael Shannon Revolutionary Road DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Vantage
Motion Picture, Drama
Slumdog Millionaire Fox Searchlight
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Happy-Go-Lucky Miramax Films
Angelina Jolie Changeling Universal
Actor In A Motion Picture, Drama
Richard Jenkins The Visitor Overture Films
Actress In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical
Sally Hawkins Happy-Go-Lucky Miramax Films
Actor In A Motion Picture, Comedy Or Musical
Ricky Gervais Ghost Town DreamWorks Pictures Spyglass Entertainment
Actress In A Supporting Role
Rosemarie DeWitt Rachel Getting Married Sony Pictures Classics
Actor In A Supporting Role
Michael Shannon Revolutionary Road DreamWorks Pictures Paramount Vantage
Motion Picture, Drama
Slumdog Millionaire Fox Searchlight
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Happy-Go-Lucky Miramax Films
Miniseries
Cranford BBC
Motion Picture Made For Television
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story PBS / BBC
Actress In A Miniseries Or A Motion Picture Made For Television
Judi Dench Cranford BBC/WGBH
Actor In A Miniseries Or A Motion Picture Made For Television
Paul Giamatti John Adams HBO
Actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television
Fionnula Flanagan Brotherhood Showtime
Actor in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television
Nelsan Ellis True Blood HBO
Television Series, Drama
Dexter Showtime
Actress in a Series, Drama
Anna Paquin True Blood HBO
Actor in a Series, Drama
Bryan Cranston Breaking Bad AMC / Sony Pictures Television
Television Series, Comedy or Musical
State of the Union Showtime
Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical
Tracey Ullman State of the Union</td> Showtime
Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical
Justin Kirk Weeds Showtime
Cranford BBC
Motion Picture Made For Television
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story PBS / BBC
Actress In A Miniseries Or A Motion Picture Made For Television
Judi Dench Cranford BBC/WGBH
Actor In A Miniseries Or A Motion Picture Made For Television
Paul Giamatti John Adams HBO
Actress in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television
Fionnula Flanagan Brotherhood Showtime
Actor in a supporting role in a series, mini-series or motion picture made for television
Nelsan Ellis True Blood HBO
Television Series, Drama
Dexter Showtime
Actress in a Series, Drama
Anna Paquin True Blood HBO
Actor in a Series, Drama
Bryan Cranston Breaking Bad AMC / Sony Pictures Television
Television Series, Comedy or Musical
State of the Union Showtime
Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical
Tracey Ullman State of the Union</td> Showtime
Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical
Justin Kirk Weeds Showtime
The Boston Society of Film Critics had trouble deciding top honorees, leading to ties for best picture and actor. See more at the Boston critics' website.
Best picture (tie): "Wall-E," "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best actor (tie:: Sean Penn, "Milk"; Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
Best actress: Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best supporting actress: Penélope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Best director: Gus Van Sant, "Milk," "Paranoid Park"
Best screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, "Milk"
Best cinematography: Christopher Doyle, Rain Kathy Li, "Paranoid Park"
Best documentary: "Man on Wire"
Best foreign-language film: "Let the Right One In"
Best animated film: "Wall-E"
Best film editing: Chris Dickens, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best new filmmaker: Martin McDonagh, "In Bruges"
Best ensemble cast: "Tropic Thunder"
Best picture (tie): "Wall-E," "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best actor (tie:: Sean Penn, "Milk"; Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
Best actress: Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best supporting actress: Penélope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Best director: Gus Van Sant, "Milk," "Paranoid Park"
Best screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, "Milk"
Best cinematography: Christopher Doyle, Rain Kathy Li, "Paranoid Park"
Best documentary: "Man on Wire"
Best foreign-language film: "Let the Right One In"
Best animated film: "Wall-E"
Best film editing: Chris Dickens, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best new filmmaker: Martin McDonagh, "In Bruges"
Best ensemble cast: "Tropic Thunder"
New York Film Critics Online is composed of 27 web-based reviewers and 2 print critics. (See the full list here.) It should not be confused with the New York Film Critics Circle, which permitted the admission of internet journalists this year for the first time ever. Its earlier refusal to recognize web journos caused these new, equivalent to be launched in 2001.
Its best-picture choices since: "Mulholland Drive" (2001), "Chicago" (2002), "Lost in Translation" (2003), "The Squid and the Whale" (2005), "The Queen" (2006), "Diving Bell and the Butterfly" and "There Will Be Blood" (tie, 2007).
BEST PICTURE of 2008
"Slumdog Millionaire"
BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle with Loveleen Tandan, "Slumdog Millionaire"
BEST ACTOR
Sean Penn, "Milk"
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, "Vicki Cristina Barcelona"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Slumdog Millionaire," Anthony Dod Mantle
BEST SCREENPLAY
"Slumdog Millionaire," Simon Beaufoy
BEST FOREIGN PICTURE
"4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days"
BEST DOCUMENTARY
"Man on Wire"
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"Wall-E"
BEST SCORE
"Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman
BEST BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE
Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
BEST DEBUT AS DIRECTOR
Martin McDonagh, "In Bruges"
BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
"Milk"
TOP 10 BEST FILMS
"Che"
"A Christmas Tale"
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"The Dark Knight"
"Happy-Go-Lucky"
"Milk"
"Rachel Getting Married"
"Slumdog Millionaire"
"Wall-E"
"The Wrestler"
Its best-picture choices since: "Mulholland Drive" (2001), "Chicago" (2002), "Lost in Translation" (2003), "The Squid and the Whale" (2005), "The Queen" (2006), "Diving Bell and the Butterfly" and "There Will Be Blood" (tie, 2007).
BEST PICTURE of 2008
"Slumdog Millionaire"
BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle with Loveleen Tandan, "Slumdog Millionaire"
BEST ACTOR
Sean Penn, "Milk"
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, "Vicki Cristina Barcelona"
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"Slumdog Millionaire," Anthony Dod Mantle
BEST SCREENPLAY
"Slumdog Millionaire," Simon Beaufoy
BEST FOREIGN PICTURE
"4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days"
BEST DOCUMENTARY
"Man on Wire"
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"Wall-E"
BEST SCORE
"Slumdog Millionaire," A.R. Rahman
BEST BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE
Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
BEST DEBUT AS DIRECTOR
Martin McDonagh, "In Bruges"
BEST ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE
"Milk"
TOP 10 BEST FILMS
"Che"
"A Christmas Tale"
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"The Dark Knight"
"Happy-Go-Lucky"
"Milk"
"Rachel Getting Married"
"Slumdog Millionaire"
"Wall-E"
"The Wrestler"
AP critics pick top films of 2008
By DAVID GERMAIN and CHRISTY LEMIRE – 15 hours ago
The top 10 films of 2008, according to AP Movie Writer David Germain:
1. "Happy-Go-Lucky" — As good as Mike Leigh's films are, perhaps his greatest service to cinema is discovering wonderful performers, then workshopping stories tailored to their strengths. The result is the year's finest performance, with Sally Hawkins a lively, merry, inspiring sweetheart, a teacher whose unshakable optimism survives all the negative vibes, from trifling to grave, that the world hurls at her. For fans of great film actors, this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
2. "WALL-E" — If we all had this plucky little robot's work ethic, we wouldn't be in a recession. The animation masters at Pixar have delivered a true innovation, a robot love story tucked in a cautionary environmental tale wrapped in a sci-fi saga, with romantic leads who communicate adorably in mechanical beeps and squeals. The title character of Andrew Stanton's adventure is beyond endearing as he toils alone to clean up filthy old Earth after everybody else has left.
3. "Encounters at the End of the World" — Werner Herzog went to Antarctica declaring he was NOT making another movie about penguins. His documentary presents a series of hypnotic vignettes about the researchers, wanderers and societal malcontents working at the South Pole. And representative of this motley lot, Herzog finds a penguin too fascinating to ignore — a loner striding purposefully away from his flock, into the mountains, toward certain death.
4. "Slumdog Millionaire" — Danny Boyle masterfully applies his "Trainspotting" dichotomy — the humorous and horrific sharing equal screen time, occasionally at the same moment — with this story of a Mumbai orphan who perseveres like a Dickens hero amid police torture, fraternal betrayal and child mutilation. The film has a wickedly joyous heartbeat as fate carries a lowly "slumdog" to fame, fortune and a reunion with the lost love he's been seeking all his life.
5. "Frozen River" — Writer-director Courtney Hunt's meticulous debut feature casts viewers into a winter wasteland so bleak you shiver from the cold, and a cross-cultural tale so authentic you'll shiver again as the chill thaws between its two seemingly intractable leads. Melissa Leo and Misty Upham are quietly transcendent as a white mom and a Mohawk Indian who embark on a smuggling partnership out of necessity, then find self-sacrificing friendship out of the decency they discover in each other.
6. "The Visitor" — This year's sad-sack prize goes to Richard Jenkins, a character actor getting a rare chance to gleam in a lead role as a widowed academic with a life whose empty moments just seem to repeat themselves. Writer-director Tom McCarthy flings this dead man walking into a touching, reinvigorating relationship with an immigrant illegally living in his Manhattan flat, lending our hero a reason to fight not only for his new friend's life, but also his own.
7. "The Wrestler" — Mickey Rourke's art imitates his life in Darren Aronofsky's inventive take on the usually hackneyed sports-comeback flick. After squandering his early promise, Rourke returns with a role tailor-made for him — yet one he had to fight for because of the bad-boy behavior that made him a Hollywood has-been. Even early on, when critics compared him to Brando, Rourke has never been better.
8. "Frost/Nixon" — Frank Langella may not have Richard Nixon's jowls, but he's got the chops and then some to create a riveting portrait. Reprising roles they created in the stage play, Langella and Michael Sheen as David Frost engage in a fascinating battle of wills and wit amid the historic TV interviews from 1977. Without a trace of caricature, Langella is tragically grand in a drama that marks the best work ever from director Ron Howard.
9. "The Dark Knight" — Christopher Nolan isn't kidding when he says he held nothing back from his Batman sequel, which raised the superhero genre from comic-book pages into the realm of highbrow literature. The scope is as grand as "The Godfather," the themes aspire to Shakespeare. Heath Ledger may steal the show with his maniacal Joker, but Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and cast mates form an ensemble as good as any on the big-screen this year.
10. "Wendy and Lucy" — Michelle Williams is an utter heartbreaker in co-writer and director Kelly Reichardt's deceptively simple story of a down-and-out woman heading with her dog toward hopes of a better life in Alaska. Stranded in a small Northwest town where her pet goes missing, she finds mostly hardhearted indifference from the strangers she encounters — but also a glimmer or two of kindness to sustain the faltering faith that one day, things will get better.
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AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire:
1. "The Wrestler" — It couldn't have had a more cliched premise: A washed-up athlete struggles against the odds for one last chance at greatness. But Darren Aronofsky reinvents this well-worn genre, and in the process, allows Mickey Rourke to reinvent himself with disarming charisma and unexpected vulnerability. He gives the performance of his long and infamous career in a stripped-down film that's brutally honest yet funny, touching and even sweet.
2. "Frost/Nixon" — The best movie Ron Howard's ever made is also, on its surface, the simplest. By focusing on the 1977 television showdown between British TV personality David Frost and former President Nixon, Howard creates steadily percolating tension, and he draws powerfully fleshed-out performances from Michael Sheen and Frank Langella.
3. "Man on Wire" — James Marsh's documentary about Philippe Petit, the diminutive French daredevil who walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, plays more like an intricately timed heist flick. You know from the start that Petit makes it — he's alive and all too happy to talk about himself — but you'll still hold your breath as he and his partners in crime relive the feat.
4. "Waltz With Bashir" — Israeli writer-director Ari Folman breaks all the rules with his animated documentary, which is exhilarating in its creativity. You've never seen anything like it: Folman reconstructs the hazy memories of his time as a young soldier at war in 1980s Lebanon by visiting friends and then animating their talks. The result looks like a graphic novel brought brilliantly to life.
5. "WALL-E" — Speaking of animation, Pixar maintains its impeccable track records with this irresistible, visually marvelous tale of the last robot on Earth. Although the little guy and his lady love, Eve, exchange maybe three words total, director Andrew Stanton is resourceful enough to find infinite ways for them to express themselves.
6. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" — A grand, old fashioned epic that takes mind-boggling advantage of the most modern filmmaking technology. Director David Fincher, always a virtuoso stylist, has outdone himself here. You'll be in awe of the wildly ambitious yet intricately detailed way he tells the story of a man who ages in reverse. Brad Pitt melds his leading-man and character-actor abilities in an inspiring heartbreaking performance.
7. "Frozen River" — The story of two desperate women who smuggle immigrants across the Canadian border is so quiet and precise and self-assured, you'd never know it's writer-director Courtney Hunt's feature debut. Here, she's come up with that rare thing: a film that feels completely original.
8. "Milk" — Gus Van Sant boldly returns to mainstream filmmaking with a story that, on its surface, could have been shamelessly mawkish. Instead, he presents the last eight years in the life of Harvey Milk, the slain San Francisco politician and gay rights activist, with a mix of vivid details and nuanced heart. He's also drawn from Sean Penn one of his most glorious performances ever.
9. "Paranoid Park" — More from Van Sant, this time the latest in a series of dreamy, languid meditations on life, death and the quiet angst of disconnected youth. The story of a skateboarder who's involved in the accidental killing of a security guard comes at you as a mesmerizing pastiche of images, with fluid, hypnotic cinematography from Christopher Doyle. It'll sneak up on you and stick with you.
10. "Iron Man" — A rare blockbuster with both brains and emotion, this truly is the summer's best superhero movie (sorry, Batman). Robert Downey Jr.'s intelligence, quick wit and striking presence bring real heft to what could have been a mindless popcorn picture. In making the biggest film of his life, director Jon Favreau deftly juggles all the complicated, expensive toys.
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By DAVID GERMAIN and CHRISTY LEMIRE – 15 hours ago
The top 10 films of 2008, according to AP Movie Writer David Germain:
1. "Happy-Go-Lucky" — As good as Mike Leigh's films are, perhaps his greatest service to cinema is discovering wonderful performers, then workshopping stories tailored to their strengths. The result is the year's finest performance, with Sally Hawkins a lively, merry, inspiring sweetheart, a teacher whose unshakable optimism survives all the negative vibes, from trifling to grave, that the world hurls at her. For fans of great film actors, this is the start of a beautiful friendship.
2. "WALL-E" — If we all had this plucky little robot's work ethic, we wouldn't be in a recession. The animation masters at Pixar have delivered a true innovation, a robot love story tucked in a cautionary environmental tale wrapped in a sci-fi saga, with romantic leads who communicate adorably in mechanical beeps and squeals. The title character of Andrew Stanton's adventure is beyond endearing as he toils alone to clean up filthy old Earth after everybody else has left.
3. "Encounters at the End of the World" — Werner Herzog went to Antarctica declaring he was NOT making another movie about penguins. His documentary presents a series of hypnotic vignettes about the researchers, wanderers and societal malcontents working at the South Pole. And representative of this motley lot, Herzog finds a penguin too fascinating to ignore — a loner striding purposefully away from his flock, into the mountains, toward certain death.
4. "Slumdog Millionaire" — Danny Boyle masterfully applies his "Trainspotting" dichotomy — the humorous and horrific sharing equal screen time, occasionally at the same moment — with this story of a Mumbai orphan who perseveres like a Dickens hero amid police torture, fraternal betrayal and child mutilation. The film has a wickedly joyous heartbeat as fate carries a lowly "slumdog" to fame, fortune and a reunion with the lost love he's been seeking all his life.
5. "Frozen River" — Writer-director Courtney Hunt's meticulous debut feature casts viewers into a winter wasteland so bleak you shiver from the cold, and a cross-cultural tale so authentic you'll shiver again as the chill thaws between its two seemingly intractable leads. Melissa Leo and Misty Upham are quietly transcendent as a white mom and a Mohawk Indian who embark on a smuggling partnership out of necessity, then find self-sacrificing friendship out of the decency they discover in each other.
6. "The Visitor" — This year's sad-sack prize goes to Richard Jenkins, a character actor getting a rare chance to gleam in a lead role as a widowed academic with a life whose empty moments just seem to repeat themselves. Writer-director Tom McCarthy flings this dead man walking into a touching, reinvigorating relationship with an immigrant illegally living in his Manhattan flat, lending our hero a reason to fight not only for his new friend's life, but also his own.
7. "The Wrestler" — Mickey Rourke's art imitates his life in Darren Aronofsky's inventive take on the usually hackneyed sports-comeback flick. After squandering his early promise, Rourke returns with a role tailor-made for him — yet one he had to fight for because of the bad-boy behavior that made him a Hollywood has-been. Even early on, when critics compared him to Brando, Rourke has never been better.
8. "Frost/Nixon" — Frank Langella may not have Richard Nixon's jowls, but he's got the chops and then some to create a riveting portrait. Reprising roles they created in the stage play, Langella and Michael Sheen as David Frost engage in a fascinating battle of wills and wit amid the historic TV interviews from 1977. Without a trace of caricature, Langella is tragically grand in a drama that marks the best work ever from director Ron Howard.
9. "The Dark Knight" — Christopher Nolan isn't kidding when he says he held nothing back from his Batman sequel, which raised the superhero genre from comic-book pages into the realm of highbrow literature. The scope is as grand as "The Godfather," the themes aspire to Shakespeare. Heath Ledger may steal the show with his maniacal Joker, but Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and cast mates form an ensemble as good as any on the big-screen this year.
10. "Wendy and Lucy" — Michelle Williams is an utter heartbreaker in co-writer and director Kelly Reichardt's deceptively simple story of a down-and-out woman heading with her dog toward hopes of a better life in Alaska. Stranded in a small Northwest town where her pet goes missing, she finds mostly hardhearted indifference from the strangers she encounters — but also a glimmer or two of kindness to sustain the faltering faith that one day, things will get better.
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AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire:
1. "The Wrestler" — It couldn't have had a more cliched premise: A washed-up athlete struggles against the odds for one last chance at greatness. But Darren Aronofsky reinvents this well-worn genre, and in the process, allows Mickey Rourke to reinvent himself with disarming charisma and unexpected vulnerability. He gives the performance of his long and infamous career in a stripped-down film that's brutally honest yet funny, touching and even sweet.
2. "Frost/Nixon" — The best movie Ron Howard's ever made is also, on its surface, the simplest. By focusing on the 1977 television showdown between British TV personality David Frost and former President Nixon, Howard creates steadily percolating tension, and he draws powerfully fleshed-out performances from Michael Sheen and Frank Langella.
3. "Man on Wire" — James Marsh's documentary about Philippe Petit, the diminutive French daredevil who walked a tightrope between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, plays more like an intricately timed heist flick. You know from the start that Petit makes it — he's alive and all too happy to talk about himself — but you'll still hold your breath as he and his partners in crime relive the feat.
4. "Waltz With Bashir" — Israeli writer-director Ari Folman breaks all the rules with his animated documentary, which is exhilarating in its creativity. You've never seen anything like it: Folman reconstructs the hazy memories of his time as a young soldier at war in 1980s Lebanon by visiting friends and then animating their talks. The result looks like a graphic novel brought brilliantly to life.
5. "WALL-E" — Speaking of animation, Pixar maintains its impeccable track records with this irresistible, visually marvelous tale of the last robot on Earth. Although the little guy and his lady love, Eve, exchange maybe three words total, director Andrew Stanton is resourceful enough to find infinite ways for them to express themselves.
6. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" — A grand, old fashioned epic that takes mind-boggling advantage of the most modern filmmaking technology. Director David Fincher, always a virtuoso stylist, has outdone himself here. You'll be in awe of the wildly ambitious yet intricately detailed way he tells the story of a man who ages in reverse. Brad Pitt melds his leading-man and character-actor abilities in an inspiring heartbreaking performance.
7. "Frozen River" — The story of two desperate women who smuggle immigrants across the Canadian border is so quiet and precise and self-assured, you'd never know it's writer-director Courtney Hunt's feature debut. Here, she's come up with that rare thing: a film that feels completely original.
8. "Milk" — Gus Van Sant boldly returns to mainstream filmmaking with a story that, on its surface, could have been shamelessly mawkish. Instead, he presents the last eight years in the life of Harvey Milk, the slain San Francisco politician and gay rights activist, with a mix of vivid details and nuanced heart. He's also drawn from Sean Penn one of his most glorious performances ever.
9. "Paranoid Park" — More from Van Sant, this time the latest in a series of dreamy, languid meditations on life, death and the quiet angst of disconnected youth. The story of a skateboarder who's involved in the accidental killing of a security guard comes at you as a mesmerizing pastiche of images, with fluid, hypnotic cinematography from Christopher Doyle. It'll sneak up on you and stick with you.
10. "Iron Man" — A rare blockbuster with both brains and emotion, this truly is the summer's best superhero movie (sorry, Batman). Robert Downey Jr.'s intelligence, quick wit and striking presence bring real heft to what could have been a mindless popcorn picture. In making the biggest film of his life, director Jon Favreau deftly juggles all the complicated, expensive toys.
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I think of all the movies being praised this year I am most excited to see “Wendy & Lucy”. This is the type of movie I can really get behind. I love small minimalist movies that seemingly aren’t about anything, but as you watch you realize they are about something very grand indeed….people. I have a friend that says my favorite movies always involve “weird girls talking” and I suppose she has a point. I will take a small screen gem featuring only two actors (like Night’ Mother) over some character laden heavy handed cliché ridden Hollywood attempt at human feeling any day. I have only recently become a fan of Michelle Williams. It wasn’t until Brokeback Mountain that I realized what a terrific actress she was. I cared about her character more than anyones in that movie. So we got a small indie, a talented ingénue and a lost dog. I am crying already.
The film critics groups continue their love-a-thon with Sally Hawkins as best actress, but — surprise — the San Diego journos just picked Kate Winslet in "The Reader," not "Revolutionary Road." Penelope Cruz may have dominated early critics' prizes in the supporting race, but now Marisa Tomei is wrestling laurels away. No shockeroo that San Francisco's critics heaped awards on "Milk," including best pic, director, actor and screenplay. After all, the film is set in America's West Coast gay capital. Other awardees:
Best director: Gus Van Sant, "Milk"
Best actor (tie): Sean Penn, "Milk" and Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
Best actress: Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best supporting actress: Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"
Original screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, "Milk"
Adapted screenplay: Peter Morgan, "Frost/Nixon"
See more at the critics site HERE.
The San Diego Film Critics Society chose these winners:
Best picture: "Slumdog Millionaire"
Runner-up: "The Dark Knight"
Best director: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best actor: Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
Best actress: Kate Winslet, "The Reader"
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best supporting actress: Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"
Best adapted screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best original screenplay: Tom McCarthy, "The Visitor"
See more at the critics website HERE.
Winners of the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards:
Best picture: "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best director: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best actor: Sean Penn, "Milk"
Best actress: Meryl Streep, "Doubt"
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best supporting actress: Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"
See more at the critics website HERE.
Best director: Gus Van Sant, "Milk"
Best actor (tie): Sean Penn, "Milk" and Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
Best actress: Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best supporting actress: Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"
Original screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, "Milk"
Adapted screenplay: Peter Morgan, "Frost/Nixon"
See more at the critics site HERE.
The San Diego Film Critics Society chose these winners:
Best picture: "Slumdog Millionaire"
Runner-up: "The Dark Knight"
Best director: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best actor: Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"
Best actress: Kate Winslet, "The Reader"
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best supporting actress: Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"
Best adapted screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best original screenplay: Tom McCarthy, "The Visitor"
See more at the critics website HERE.
Winners of the Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards:
Best picture: "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best director: Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best actor: Sean Penn, "Milk"
Best actress: Meryl Streep, "Doubt"
Best supporting actor: Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best supporting actress: Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"
See more at the critics website HERE.
The nominations for the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Thursday morning.
Both Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman earned nominations for "Doubt."
The nominees for outstanding performance by a cast are "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt," "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire."
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actor are Richard Jenkins ("The Visitor"), Frank Langella ("Frost/Nixon"), Sean Penn ("Milk"), Brad Pitt ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") and Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actress are Anne Hathaway ("Rachel Getting Married"), Angelina Jolie ("Changeling"), Melissa Leo ("Frozen River"), Meryl Streep ("Doubt") and Kate Winslet ("Revolutionary Road").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a supporting actor are Josh Brolin ("Milk"), Robert Downey Jr. ("Tropic Thunder"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Doubt"), Heath Ledger ("The Dark Knight") and Dev Patel ("Slumdog Millionaire").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a supporting actress are Amy Adams ("Doubt"), Penelope Cruz ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona"), Viola Davis ("Doubt"), Taraji P. Henson ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") and Kate Winslet ("The Reader").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a TV drama series ensemble are "Boston Legal," "The Closer," "Dexter," "House" and "Mad Men."
The nominees for outstanding performance by a TV comedy series ensemble are "30 Rock," "Desperate Housewives," "Entourage," "The Office" and "Weeds."
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actor in a TV drama are Michael C. Hall ("Dexter"), Jon Hamm ("Mad Men"), Hugh Laurie ("House"), William Shatner ("Boston Legal") and James Spader ("Boston Legal").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actress in a TV drama are Sally Field ("Brothers and Sisters"), Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: SVU"), Holly Hunter ("Saving Grace"), Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men") and Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actor in a TV comedy are Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock"), Steve Carell ("The Office"), David Duchovny ("Californication"), Jeremy Piven ("Entourage") and Tony Shalhoub ("Monk").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actress in a TV comedy are Christina Applegate ("Samantha Who?"), America Ferrera ("Ugly Betty"), Tina Fey ("30 Rock") Mary-Louise Parker ("Weeds") and Tracey Ullman ("Tracey Ullman's State of the Union").
For Academy Award watchers, the SAG Award nominations are considered a bellwether of Oscar acting nominations. The actors' branch is the largest Academy voting bloc and is responsible for creating the short lists for the various Oscar acting categories.
However, a SAG win is by no means a guarantee of an Oscar. Though last year's SAG lead actor winner, Daniel Day-Lewis, won the best acting Oscar for his performance in "There Will Be Blood," the SAG lead actress winner, Julie Christie, didn't duplicate the feat. Christie, who was nominated for "Away From Her," lost to Marion Cotillard, who played Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose."
Moreover, SAG Award nominees for casts sometimes have little overlap with the Oscar nominees for best picture. Last year, the SAG list had just one film -- eventual winner "No Country for Old Men" -- that was also nominated for best picture.
SAG Award nominations are decided by about 4,000 randomly selected members of the actors' union. The full membership is allowed to vote on the winners.
The 15th annual SAG Awards are scheduled to air on January 25. The show will air on TNT and TBS. Both networks are units of Time Warner, as is CNN.
Both Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman earned nominations for "Doubt."
The nominees for outstanding performance by a cast are "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Doubt," "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "Slumdog Millionaire."
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actor are Richard Jenkins ("The Visitor"), Frank Langella ("Frost/Nixon"), Sean Penn ("Milk"), Brad Pitt ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") and Mickey Rourke ("The Wrestler").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actress are Anne Hathaway ("Rachel Getting Married"), Angelina Jolie ("Changeling"), Melissa Leo ("Frozen River"), Meryl Streep ("Doubt") and Kate Winslet ("Revolutionary Road").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a supporting actor are Josh Brolin ("Milk"), Robert Downey Jr. ("Tropic Thunder"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Doubt"), Heath Ledger ("The Dark Knight") and Dev Patel ("Slumdog Millionaire").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a supporting actress are Amy Adams ("Doubt"), Penelope Cruz ("Vicky Cristina Barcelona"), Viola Davis ("Doubt"), Taraji P. Henson ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") and Kate Winslet ("The Reader").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a TV drama series ensemble are "Boston Legal," "The Closer," "Dexter," "House" and "Mad Men."
The nominees for outstanding performance by a TV comedy series ensemble are "30 Rock," "Desperate Housewives," "Entourage," "The Office" and "Weeds."
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actor in a TV drama are Michael C. Hall ("Dexter"), Jon Hamm ("Mad Men"), Hugh Laurie ("House"), William Shatner ("Boston Legal") and James Spader ("Boston Legal").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actress in a TV drama are Sally Field ("Brothers and Sisters"), Mariska Hargitay ("Law & Order: SVU"), Holly Hunter ("Saving Grace"), Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men") and Kyra Sedgwick ("The Closer").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actor in a TV comedy are Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock"), Steve Carell ("The Office"), David Duchovny ("Californication"), Jeremy Piven ("Entourage") and Tony Shalhoub ("Monk").
The nominees for outstanding performance by a lead actress in a TV comedy are Christina Applegate ("Samantha Who?"), America Ferrera ("Ugly Betty"), Tina Fey ("30 Rock") Mary-Louise Parker ("Weeds") and Tracey Ullman ("Tracey Ullman's State of the Union").
For Academy Award watchers, the SAG Award nominations are considered a bellwether of Oscar acting nominations. The actors' branch is the largest Academy voting bloc and is responsible for creating the short lists for the various Oscar acting categories.
However, a SAG win is by no means a guarantee of an Oscar. Though last year's SAG lead actor winner, Daniel Day-Lewis, won the best acting Oscar for his performance in "There Will Be Blood," the SAG lead actress winner, Julie Christie, didn't duplicate the feat. Christie, who was nominated for "Away From Her," lost to Marion Cotillard, who played Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose."
Moreover, SAG Award nominees for casts sometimes have little overlap with the Oscar nominees for best picture. Last year, the SAG list had just one film -- eventual winner "No Country for Old Men" -- that was also nominated for best picture.
SAG Award nominations are decided by about 4,000 randomly selected members of the actors' union. The full membership is allowed to vote on the winners.
The 15th annual SAG Awards are scheduled to air on January 25. The show will air on TNT and TBS. Both networks are units of Time Warner, as is CNN.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY - 81ST AWARDS -
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor" (Overture Films)
Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
Sean Penn in "Milk" (Focus Features)
Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Josh Brolin in "Milk" (Focus Features)
Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder" (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)
Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Angelina Jolie in "Changeling" (Universal)
Melissa Leo in "Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Meryl Streep in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Kate Winslet in "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company)
Viola Davis in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)
Best animated feature film of the year
"Bolt" (Walt Disney) Chris Williams and Byron Howard
"Kung Fu Panda" (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount) John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Andrew Stanton
Achievement in art direction
"Changeling" (Universal) Art Direction: James J. Murakami
Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt
Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley
Set Decoration: Peter Lando
"The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films) Art Direction: Michael Carlin
Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
"Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage) Art Direction: Kristi Zea
Set Decoration: Debra Schutt
Achievement in cinematography
"Changeling" (Universal) Tom Stern
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Claudio Miranda
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Anthony Dod Mantle
Achievement in costume design
"Australia" (20th Century Fox) Catherine Martin
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Jacqueline West
"The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films) Michael O'Connor
"Milk" (Focus Features) Danny Glicker
"Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage) Albert Wolsky
Achievement in directing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Fincher
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Ron Howard
"Milk" (Focus Features) Gus Van Sant
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Stephen Daldry
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Danny Boyle
Best documentary feature
"The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" (Cinema Guild)
A Pandinlao Films Production Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
"Encounters at the End of the World" (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment)
A Creative Differences Production Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
"The Garden"
A Black Valley Films Production Scott Hamilton Kennedy
"Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures)
A Wall to Wall Production James Marsh and Simon Chinn
"Trouble the Water" (Zeitgeist Films)
An Elsewhere Films Production Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Best documentary short subject
"The Conscience of Nhem En"
A Farallon Films Production Steven Okazaki
"The Final Inch"
A Vermilion Films Production Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
"Smile Pinki"
A Principe Production Megan Mylan
"The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306"
A Rock Paper Scissors Production Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde
Achievement in film editing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Lee Smith
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
"Milk" (Focus Features) Elliot Graham
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Chris Dickens
Best foreign language film of the year
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" A Constantin Film Production - Germany
"The Class" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haut et Court Production - France
"Departures" (Regent Releasing) A Departures Film Partners Production - Japan
"Revanche" (Janus Films) A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production - Austria
"Waltz with Bashir" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production - Israel
Achievement in makeup
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Greg Cannom
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (Universal) Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Alexandre Desplat
"Defiance" (Paramount Vantage) James Newton Howard
"Milk" (Focus Features) Danny Elfman
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Thomas Newman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
Lyric by Peter Gabriel
"Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman
Lyric by Gulzar
"O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
Best motion picture of the year
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
A Kennedy/Marshall Production Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
"Milk" (Focus Features)
A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production Nominees to be determined
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)
A Celador Films Production Christian Colson, Producer
Best animated short film
"La Maison en Petits Cubes"
A Robot Communications Production Kunio Kato
"Lavatory - Lovestory"
A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production Konstantin Bronzit
"Oktapodi" (Talantis Films)
A Gobelins, L'école de l'image Production Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
"Presto" (Walt Disney)
A Pixar Animation Studios Production Doug Sweetland
"This Way Up"
A Nexus Production Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes
Best live action short film
"Auf der Strecke (On the Line)" (Hamburg Shortfilmagency)
An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production Reto Caffi
"Manon on the Asphalt" (La Luna Productions)
A La Luna Production Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
"New Boy" (Network Ireland Television)
A Zanzibar Films Production Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
"The Pig"
An M & M Production Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
"Spielzeugland (Toyland)"
A Mephisto Film Production Jochen Alexander Freydank
Achievement in sound editing
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Richard King
"Iron Man" (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment) Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Tom Sayers
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
"Wanted" (Universal) Wylie Stateman
Achievement in sound mixing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
"Wanted" (Universal) Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt
Achievement in visual effects
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
"Iron Man" (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment) John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan
Adapted screenplay
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Eric Roth
Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
"Doubt" (Miramax) Written by John Patrick Shanley
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Screenplay by Peter Morgan
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Screenplay by David Hare
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
Original screenplay
"Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Courtney Hunt
"Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax) Written by Mike Leigh
"In Bruges" (Focus Features) Written by Martin McDonagh
"Milk" (Focus Features) Written by Dustin Lance Black
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon
Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
- NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY - 81ST AWARDS -
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor" (Overture Films)
Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
Sean Penn in "Milk" (Focus Features)
Brad Pitt in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Josh Brolin in "Milk" (Focus Features)
Robert Downey Jr. in "Tropic Thunder" (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)
Michael Shannon in "Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Angelina Jolie in "Changeling" (Universal)
Melissa Leo in "Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Meryl Streep in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Kate Winslet in "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Amy Adams in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Penélope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company)
Viola Davis in "Doubt" (Miramax)
Taraji P. Henson in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Marisa Tomei in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)
Best animated feature film of the year
"Bolt" (Walt Disney) Chris Williams and Byron Howard
"Kung Fu Panda" (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount) John Stevenson and Mark Osborne
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Andrew Stanton
Achievement in art direction
"Changeling" (Universal) Art Direction: James J. Murakami
Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt
Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Nathan Crowley
Set Decoration: Peter Lando
"The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films) Art Direction: Michael Carlin
Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway
"Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage) Art Direction: Kristi Zea
Set Decoration: Debra Schutt
Achievement in cinematography
"Changeling" (Universal) Tom Stern
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Claudio Miranda
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Chris Menges and Roger Deakins
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Anthony Dod Mantle
Achievement in costume design
"Australia" (20th Century Fox) Catherine Martin
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Jacqueline West
"The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films) Michael O'Connor
"Milk" (Focus Features) Danny Glicker
"Revolutionary Road" (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage) Albert Wolsky
Achievement in directing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Fincher
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Ron Howard
"Milk" (Focus Features) Gus Van Sant
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Stephen Daldry
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Danny Boyle
Best documentary feature
"The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" (Cinema Guild)
A Pandinlao Films Production Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath
"Encounters at the End of the World" (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment)
A Creative Differences Production Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser
"The Garden"
A Black Valley Films Production Scott Hamilton Kennedy
"Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures)
A Wall to Wall Production James Marsh and Simon Chinn
"Trouble the Water" (Zeitgeist Films)
An Elsewhere Films Production Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Best documentary short subject
"The Conscience of Nhem En"
A Farallon Films Production Steven Okazaki
"The Final Inch"
A Vermilion Films Production Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant
"Smile Pinki"
A Principe Production Megan Mylan
"The Witness - From the Balcony of Room 306"
A Rock Paper Scissors Production Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde
Achievement in film editing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Lee Smith
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Mike Hill and Dan Hanley
"Milk" (Focus Features) Elliot Graham
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Chris Dickens
Best foreign language film of the year
"The Baader Meinhof Complex" A Constantin Film Production - Germany
"The Class" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haut et Court Production - France
"Departures" (Regent Releasing) A Departures Film Partners Production - Japan
"Revanche" (Janus Films) A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production - Austria
"Waltz with Bashir" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production - Israel
Achievement in makeup
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Greg Cannom
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" (Universal) Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Alexandre Desplat
"Defiance" (Paramount Vantage) James Newton Howard
"Milk" (Focus Features) Danny Elfman
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Thomas Newman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Down to Earth" from "WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
Lyric by Peter Gabriel
"Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman
Lyric by Gulzar
"O Saya" from "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam
Best motion picture of the year
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
A Kennedy/Marshall Production Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers
"Milk" (Focus Features)
A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production Nominees to be determined
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight)
A Celador Films Production Christian Colson, Producer
Best animated short film
"La Maison en Petits Cubes"
A Robot Communications Production Kunio Kato
"Lavatory - Lovestory"
A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production Konstantin Bronzit
"Oktapodi" (Talantis Films)
A Gobelins, L'école de l'image Production Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand
"Presto" (Walt Disney)
A Pixar Animation Studios Production Doug Sweetland
"This Way Up"
A Nexus Production Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes
Best live action short film
"Auf der Strecke (On the Line)" (Hamburg Shortfilmagency)
An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production Reto Caffi
"Manon on the Asphalt" (La Luna Productions)
A La Luna Production Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
"New Boy" (Network Ireland Television)
A Zanzibar Films Production Steph Green and Tamara Anghie
"The Pig"
An M & M Production Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh
"Spielzeugland (Toyland)"
A Mephisto Film Production Jochen Alexander Freydank
Achievement in sound editing
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Richard King
"Iron Man" (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment) Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Tom Sayers
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood
"Wanted" (Universal) Wylie Stateman
Achievement in sound mixing
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt
"Wanted" (Universal) Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt
Achievement in visual effects
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin
"Iron Man" (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment) John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan
Adapted screenplay
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Screenplay by Eric Roth
Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
"Doubt" (Miramax) Written by John Patrick Shanley
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Screenplay by Peter Morgan
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) Screenplay by David Hare
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight) Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
Original screenplay
"Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics) Written by Courtney Hunt
"Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax) Written by Mike Leigh
"In Bruges" (Focus Features) Written by Martin McDonagh
"Milk" (Focus Features) Written by Dustin Lance Black
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon
Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter
To all movie lovers, the Academy Award nominations are in
To my great surprise, Benjamin Button leads with thirteen nominations, I think, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Now, theres NO POSSIBLE WAY I think Pitt will beat Sean Penn in Milk, but it could happen. Also, if the Academy votes "mainstream" rather than "quality" Benjamin Button could win over the vastly superior Slumdog Millionaire.
Also to my surprise, Angelina Jolie received a nomination for Changeling, but I dont think she can possibly overcome Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married or Meryl Streep in Doubt. Their performances were just too strong. Doubt was such a strong movie. Both Amy Adams and Viola Davis, as I predicted, got Supporting Actress nominations for Doubt, and I think Adams will steal the award from Penelope Cruz, who should have won for Volver.
As I did expect, Australia, with Nicole Kidman was the big loser. I dont even think it got one nomination. Didnt deserve one, either, unless it was a technical one. Revolutionary Road was a bigger loser than I thought it would be. Im not unhappy about that, just a little surprised. The Academy seems to be developing some taste. Finally.
To my great surprise, Benjamin Button leads with thirteen nominations, I think, including Best Picture and Best Actor. Now, theres NO POSSIBLE WAY I think Pitt will beat Sean Penn in Milk, but it could happen. Also, if the Academy votes "mainstream" rather than "quality" Benjamin Button could win over the vastly superior Slumdog Millionaire.
Also to my surprise, Angelina Jolie received a nomination for Changeling, but I dont think she can possibly overcome Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married or Meryl Streep in Doubt. Their performances were just too strong. Doubt was such a strong movie. Both Amy Adams and Viola Davis, as I predicted, got Supporting Actress nominations for Doubt, and I think Adams will steal the award from Penelope Cruz, who should have won for Volver.
As I did expect, Australia, with Nicole Kidman was the big loser. I dont even think it got one nomination. Didnt deserve one, either, unless it was a technical one. Revolutionary Road was a bigger loser than I thought it would be. Im not unhappy about that, just a little surprised. The Academy seems to be developing some taste. Finally.
What the fuck are you talking about?
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