Sunday, June 7, 2009

Best of 2008

I've decided to restart blogging....again! What better way to reboot things than with my final opinion of the films of 2008. 5 full months after the year ended.



Films of 2008 - Ranked:

1. Rachel Getting Married
2. The Wrestler
3. Milk
4. In Bruges
5. Let the Right One In
6. Man on Wire
7. Happy-Go-Lucky
8. The Dark Knight
9. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
10. Splinter
11. Wendy and Lucy
12. Wall-E
13. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
14. Pineapple Express
15. Paranoid Park
16. Frozen River
17. Nothing But the Truth
18. Doubt
19. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
20. Changeling
21. Rogue
22. Cloverfield
23. Slumdog Millionaire
24. Eden Lake
25. The Strangers
26. The Reader
27. Transsiberian
28. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
29. Revolutionary Road
30. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
31. The Visitor
32. George A Romero's Diary of the Dead
33. Love Songs
34. Step Brothers
35. Ghost Town
36. Australia
37. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
38. Encounters at the End of the World
39. Kung Fu Panda
40. Married Life
41. Doomsday
42. The Bank Job
43. Wanted
44. Cassandra's Dream
45. Baby Mama
46. Snow Angels
47. Frost/Nixon
48. Burn After Reading
49. Definitely Maybe
50. Iron Man
51. Tropic Thunder
52. Teeth
53. Cadillac Records
54. The Spiderwick Chronicles
55. My Blueberry Nights
56. Sex and the City
57. Quarantine
58. Last Chance Harvey
59. Hamlet 2
60. Charlie Bartlett
61. Funny Games
62. Get Smart
63. Mamma Mia!
64. Nights in Rodanthe
65. The Duchess
66. Blindness
67. Savage Grace
68. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
69. 21
70. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
71. Religulous
72. Then She Found Me
73. Stop Loss
74. Untraceable
75. I Could Never Be Your Woman
76. Role Models
77. The Incredible Hulk
78. What Happens in Vegas
79. The House Bunny
80. Quantum of Solace
81. W.
82. Superhero Movie
83. Appaloosa
84. The Midnight Meat Train
85. The Happening
86. Horton Hears a Who
87. The Secret Life of Bees
88. Leatherheads
89. The Signal
90. Deception
91. Nim's Island
92. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
93. The Lucky Ones
94. The X-Files: I Want To Believe
95. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
96. An American Crime
97. The Other Boleyn Girl
98. Penelope
99. Smart People
100. Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead
101. Made of Honor
102. The Life Before Her Eyes
103. Mad Money
104. The Ruins
105. 27 Dresses
106. The Eye
107. Fool's Gold
108. Twilight
109. Sex and Death 101
110. Pathology
111. Vantage Point
112. Hell Ride
113. Prom Night
114. One Missed Call


Directing:
1. Gus Van Sant - Milk
2. Darren Aronofsky - The Wrestler
3. Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
4. Jonathan Demme - Rachel Getting Married
5. Tomas Alfredson - Let the Right One In

Lead Actor:
1. Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in The Wrestler
2. Sean Penn as Harvey Milk in Milk
3. Colin Farrell as Ray in In Bruges
4. James Franco as Saul in Pineapple Express
5. Javier Bardem as Juan Antonio in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Lead Actress:
1. Sally Hawkins as "Poppy" in Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Anne Hathaway as Kym Buchman in Rachel Getting Married
3. Kate Winslet as April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road
4. Melissa Leo as Ray in Frozen River
5. Rebecca Hall as Vicky in Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Supporting Actor:
1. Josh Brolin as Dan White in Milk
2. Heath Ledger as Joker in The Dark Knight
3. Eddie Marsan as Scott in Happy-Go-Lucky
4. Ralph Fiennes as Harry Waters in In Bruges
5. Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones in Milk

Supporting Actress:
1. Penelope Cruz as Maria Elena in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2. Vera Farmiga as Erica Van Doren in Nothing But the Truth
3. Amy Adams as Delysia Lafosse in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
4. Rosemarie Dewitt as Rachel Buchman in Rachel Getting Married
5. Beyonce Knowles as Etta James in Cadillac Records

Original Screenplay:
1. In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
2. Rachel Getting Married - Jenny Lumet
3. Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
4. Milk - Dustin Lance Black
5. The Wrestler - Robert D. Siegel

Adapted Screenplay:
1. Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist
2. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Lorene Scafaria
3. The Reader - David Hare
4. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan
5. Wendy and Lucy - Jonathan Raymond & Kelly Reichardt

Breakthrough Performance:
1. Jess Wiexler - Teeth
2. Misty Upham - Frozen River
3. Kare Hedebrant - Let the Right One In
4. Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire
5. Lina Leandersson - Let the Right One In

Ensemble Performance - Drama:
1. The Cast of "Rachel Getting Married"
2. The Cast of "Milk"
3. The Cast of "The Dark Knight"
4. The Cast of "Synecdoche, New York"
5. The Cast of "Nothing But the Truth"

Ensemble Performance - Comedy/Musical:
1. The Cast of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
2. The Cast of "Happy-Go-Lucky"
3. The Cast of "Burn After Reading"
4. The Cast of "Cadillac Records"
5. The Cast of "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"

Film Editing:
1. Milk
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Wrestler
5. In Bruges

Cinematography:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Revolutionary Road
3. Changeling
4. Let the Right One In
5. Paranoid Park

Production Design:
1. Changeling
2. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
3. Synecdoche, New York
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Costume Design:
1. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
2. The Other Boleyn Girl
3. The Duchess
4. Australia
5. Sex and the City

Original Score:
1. Milk
2. Wall-E
3. The Reader
4. The Dark Knight
5. Cloverfield

Makeup:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
3. Synecdoche, New York

Visual Effects:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Cloverfield
3. Iron Man

Sound Mixing:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Cloverfield
3. The Strangers
4. Paranoid Park
5. Slumdog Millionaire

Sound Editing:
1. Cloverfield
2. The Dark Knight
3. Wall-E

Original Song:
1. "The Wrestler" - The Wrestler
2. "Down to Earth" - Wall-E
3. "O Saya" - Slumdog Millionaire
4. "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" - Hamlet 2
5. "Dracula's Lament" - Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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