Online Film Critics Society Awards 2008



12th Online Film Critics Society Awards

January 19, 2009

Best Picture:

 WALL-E  The 12th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were given on 19 January 2009.

Best Picture
WALL-E
 * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
 * The Dark Knight
 * Slumdog Millionaire
 * The Wrestler

Best Director
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
 * Darren Aronofsky – The Wrestler
 * Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
 * David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
 * Andrew Stanton – WALL-E

Best Actor
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
 * Benicio del Toro – Che
 * Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
 * Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
 * Sean Penn – Milk

Best Actress
Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy
 * Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
 * Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
 * Meryl Streep – Doubt
 * Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
 * Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
 * Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
 * Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
 * Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
 * Amy Adams – Doubt
 * Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
 * Viola Davis – Doubt
 * Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Original Screenplay
WALL-E – Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon
 * In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
 * Milk – Dustin Lance Black
 * Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
 * The Wrestler – Robert D. Siegel

Best Adapted Screenplay
Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
 * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
 * The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
 * Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
 * Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

Best Foreign Language Film
Let the Right One In
 * A Christmas Tale
 * The Counterfeiters
 * I've Loved You So Long
 * Waltz with Bashir

Best Documentary
Man on Wire
 * Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
 * Encounters at the End of the World
 * I.O.U.S.A.
 * My Winnipeg

Best Animated Feature
WALL-E
 * Bolt
 * Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who
 * Kung Fu Panda
 * Waltz with Bashir

Best Cinematography
The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
 * Australia – Mandy Walker
 * Che – Peter Andrews
 * The Fall – Colin Watkinson
 * Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Editing
Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens
 * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall
 * The Dark Knight – Lee Smith
 * Milk – Elliot Graham
 * WALL-E – Stephen Schaffer

Best Original Score
The Dark Knight – James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer
 * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
 * Milk – Danny Elfman
 * Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
 * WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Breakthrough Filmmaker
Tomas Alfredson – Let the Right One In
 * Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
 * Kurt Kuenne – Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
 * Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
 * Steve McQueen – Hunger

Breakthrough Performer
Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In
 * Russell Brand – Forgetting Sarah Marshall
 * Kåre Hedebrant – Let the Right One In
 * Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
 * Brandon Walters – Australia