Last Picks of the Year

BEST MOTION PICTURE
Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight)
Milk (Focus Features)
The Dark Knight (Warner Bros.)
The Curious Case of … (Paramount Pics)
Frost/Nixon (Universal Pictures)
Doubt (Miramax Films)
Gran Torino (Warner Bros.)
The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight)
Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTING
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher – The Curious Case of …
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
Jonathan Demme – Rachel Getting Married
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt

BEST ACTOR
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Sean Penn – Milk
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Josh Brolin – W.
Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road

BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Kristen Scott Thomas – I’ve Loved You So Long
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Melissa Leo – Frozen River
Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Josh Brolin – Milk
Michael Sheen – Frost/Nixon
Robert Downey, Jr – Tropic Thunder
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionarie
Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
James Franco – Milk
Bill Irwin – Rachel Getting Married
Ralph Fiennes – The Reader

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
Kate Winslet – The Reader
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Rosemary DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Vera Farmiga – Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of …
Debra Winger – Rachel Getting Married
Elsa Zylberstein – I’ve Loved You So Long

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of … - Eric Roth
Doubt – John Patrick Stanley
Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
Revolutionary Road – Justin Haythe
The Reader – David Hare
The Dark Knight

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Milk
The Wrestler
Wall*E
Rachel Getting Married
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Visitor
Changeling
Happy-Go-Lucky
Frozen River
Nothing But the Truth
Che
I’ve Loved You So Long
Synecdoche, New York
Burn After Reading
Waltz with Bashir

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Wall*E
Waltz with Bashir
Kung Fu Panda

Bolt
Horton Hears a Who
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Revolutionary Road
Defiance
Australia
Changeling
The Happening
Blindness
The Fall

ART DIRECTION
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hellboy II
Revolutionary Road
The Dark Knight
Australia
The Reader
Changeling
Indiana Jones 4
The Fall
Synecdoche, New York
Milk

FILM EDITING
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Quantum of Solace
Milk
Indiana Jones 4
The Fall

COSTUME
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Revolutionary Road
The Duchess
Australia
The Reader
Changeling
Milk
The Fall

MAKEUP
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hellboy II
The Chronicles of Narnia
Synecdoche, New York
Frost/Nixon
The Dark Knight
Milk

ORIGINAL SCORE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Wall*E
Slumdog Millionaire
Revolutionary Road
The Happening
The Reader
Changeling
Blindness
Milk

ORIGINAL SONG
The Wrestler - The Wrestler
Wall*E – Down to Earth
Bolt - I Thought I Lost You
Cadillac Records - Once in a Lifetime
Slumdog Millionaire - Jai Ho
High School Musical 3: Senior Year - A Night to Remember
Forgetting Sarah Marshall – Dracula’s Lament
Gran Torino - Gran Torino
Hamlet 2 - Rock Me Sexy Jesus
Madagascar 2 - The Traveling Song
Quantum of Solace - Another Way to Die
Rachel Getting Married - Up to Our Nex
High School Musical 3: Senior Year - Can I Have This Dance
High School Musical 3: Senior Year - High School Musical

SOUND MIXING
Wall*E
Iron Man
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II
Indiana Jones 4
Defiance
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Cloverfield

SOUND EDITING
Wall*E
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Hancock
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Indiana Jones 4
Quantum of Solace
Defiance
The Fall

VISUAL EFFECTS
The Chronicles of Narnia
Cloverfield
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II
Indiana Jones 4
Iron Man
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Spiderwick Chronicles

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water
Encounters at the End of the World
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
I.O.U.S.A
At the Death House Door
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh
Fuel
The Garden
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
In a Dream
Made in America
Standard Operating Procedure
They Killed Sister Dorothy

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE
The Class
Gomorrah
Waltz with Bashir
Everlasting Moments
Captain Abu Raed
Mermaid
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Tony Manero
Last Stop 174
Three Monkeys
O’Horten
The Blind Sunflowers
Jerusalema
Revanche
Lion’s Den