NYFCC, LAFCA, BFCA!

New York Film Critics Circle:

Best Picture - Milk
Best Director - Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Actor - Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress - Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supp. Actor - Josh Brolin, Milk
Best Supp. Actress - Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Screenplay - Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Best Cinematographer - Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Film - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Best Animated Film - Wall-E
Best First Film - Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Best Documentary - Man on Wire

Los Angeles Film Critics Association:

Picture: Wall-E
Runner-up: The Dark Knight

Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight

Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Ru: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Ru: Melissa Leo, Frozen River

Supp. Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Ru: Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky

Supp. Actress: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Elegy
Ru: Viola Davis, Doubt

Screenplay: Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Ru: Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

Foreign-language film: Still Life
Ru: The Class

Documentary: Man on Wire
Ru: Waltz With Bashir

Animation: Waltz With Bashir

Production Design: Mark Friedberg, Synecdoche New York
Ru: Nathan Crowley, The Dark Knight

Music/score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Ru: Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

New Generation: Steve McQueen, Hunger

Douglas E. Edwards independent/experimental film/video: James Benning, RR and Casting a Glance


Broadcast Film Critics Assocation
The Critics' Choice Awards!

Best Picture
Changeling - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - The Dark Knight - Doubt - Frost/Nixon - Milk - The Reader - Slumdog Millionaire - Wall-E - The Wrestler

Best Actor
Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Best Actress
Kate Beckinsale - Nothing but the Truth
Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt

Best Supp. Actor
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey Jr - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
James Franco - Milk

Best Supp. Actress
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Vera Farmiga - Nothing but the Truth
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Best Acting Ensemble
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Milk
Rachel Getting Married

Best Director
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant - Milk

Best Writer (orig or adapt)
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

Best Animated Feature
Bolt - Kung-Fu Panda - Madagascar: Esape 2 Africa - Wall-E - Waltz With Bashir

Best Young Actor/Actress (under 21)
Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross - The Reader
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire
Brandon Walters - Australia

Best Action Movie
The Dark Knight - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Iron Man - Quantum of Solace - Wanted

Best Comedy Movie
Burn After Reading - Forgetting Sarah Marshall - Role Models - Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Tropic Thunder

Best Picture Made for Television
John Adams - Recount - Coco Chanel

Best Foreign Language Film
A Christmas Tale - Gomorrah - I've Loved You So Long - Let the Right One In - Mongol - Waltz With Bashir

Best Documentary Feature
IOUSA - Man on Wire - Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired - Standard Operating Procedure - Young at Heart

Best Song
Another Way to Die - Quantum of Solace
Down to Earth - Wall-E
I Thought I Lost You - Bolt
Jaiho - Slumdog Millionaire
The Wrestler - The Wrestler

Best Composer
Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
Danny Elfman - Milk
Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire




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