Awards Season Ketchup!

Washington DC Film Critics Association:

Best Film - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director - Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor - Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress - Meryl Streep, Doubt
Best Supp. Actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supp. Actress - Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Best Breakthrough Performance - Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Adapted Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Best Animated Feature - Wall-E
Best Foreign Language Film - Let the Right One In
Best Documentary - Man on Wire
Best Art Direction - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW

Best Film - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director - David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Actor - Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Best Actress - Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supp. Actor - Josh Brolin, Milk
Best Supp. Actress - Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Foreign Language Film - Mongol
Best Documentary - Man On Wire
Best Animated Feature - Wall-E
Best Ensemble Cast - Doubt
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor - Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress - Viola Davis, Doubt
Best Directorial Debut - Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Best Original Screenplay - Nick Schenk, Gran Torino
Best Adapted Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire AND Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spotlight Awards - Melissa Leo, Frozen River AND Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
The Bulgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression - Trumbo

Top 10 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

Top 5 Foreign Language Films:
(alph)
Edge of Heaven
Let the Right One In
Roman De Guerre
A Secret
Waltz With Bashir

Top 5 Documentary Films:
(alph)
American Teen
The Betrayal
Dear Zachary
Encounters and the End of the World
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

William K. Everson Film History Award:
Molly Haskel & Andrew Sarris

Top 10 Independent Films:
(alph)
Frozen River
In Bruges
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Mr. Foe
Rachel Getting Married
Snow Angels
Wendy and Lucy
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Visitor



INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD NOMINATIONS!

Best Feature:
Ballast
Frozen River
Rachel Getting Married
Wendy and Lucy
The Wrestler

Best Director:
Lance Hammer, Ballast
Ramin Bahrani, Chop Shop
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Tom McCarthy, The Visitor

Best First Feature:
Afterschool
Medicine for Melancholy
Sangre De Mi Sangre
Sleep Dealer
Synecdoche, New York

John Cassavettes Award:
In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Prince of Broadway
The Signal
Take Out
Turn the River

Best Screenplay:
Sangre De Mi Sangre
Savage Grace
Sugar
Synecdoche, New York
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best First Screenplay:
Ballast
Frozen River
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Wackness

Best Female Lead:
Summer Bashil, Towelhead
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Tarra Riggs, Ballast
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy

Best Male Lead:
Javier Bardem, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Sean Penn, Milk
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Supporting Female:
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Rosie Perez, The Take
Misty Upham, Frozen River
Debra Winger, Rachel Getting Married

Best Supporting Male:
James Franco, Milk
Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker
Charlie McDermott, Frozen River
JimMyron Ross, Ballast
Haaz Sleiman, The Visitor

Best Foreign Film:
The Class
Gomorra
Hunger
Secret of the Grain
Silent Light

Best Documentary:
The Betrayals
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire
The Order of Myths
Up the Yangtze

Best Cinematography:
Ballast
Chop Shop
Medice for Melancholy
Milk
The Wrestler

Robert Altman Award:
Charlie Kaufman, Jeanne McCarthy, Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson, Diane Weist, Michelle Williams FOR Synecdoche, New York



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