Best Feature-Length Film
1. Man on Wire
2. WALL*E
3. The Wrestler
4. In Bruges
5. Burn After Reading
6. Let the Right One In
7. Happy-Go-Lucky
8. Rachel Getting Married
9. Dear Zachary: A Letter
to a Son About His Father
10. Surfwise
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
2. Benicio del Toro, Che
3. Robert Downey Jr., Iron
Man
4. Sean Penn, Milk
5. Brian Cox, Red
Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Melissa Leo, Frozen
River
3. Lina Leandersson, Let
the Right One In
4. Anamaria Marinca, 4
Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
5. Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Performance,
Male
1. Heath Ledger, The Dark
Knight
2. Brad Pitt, Burn After
Reading
3. Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
4. Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic
Thunder
5. Richard Jenkins, Burn
After Reading
Best Supporting Performance,
Female
1. Samantha Morton, Synecdoche,
New York
2. Frances McDormand, Burn
After Reading
3. Marisa Tormei, The Wrestler
4. Vera Farmiga, Quid Pro
Quo
5. Samantha Morton, Mister
Lonely
Best Direction
1. Coen Brothers, Burn
After Reading
2. Darren Aronofsky, The
Wrestler
3. Tomas Alfredson, Let
the Right One In
4. James Marsh, Man on
Wire
5. Martin McDonagh, In
Bruges
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Joel and Ethan Coen, Burn
After Reading
2. Martin McDonagh, In
Bruges
3. Joachim Trier and Eskil
Vogt, Reprise
4. Jenny Lumet, Rachel
Getting Married
5. Woody Allen, Cassandra's
Dream
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Christopher Doyle and
Rain Kathy Li, Paranoid Park
2. Claudio Miranda, The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Tom Stern, Changeling
4. Wally Pfister, The Dark
Knight
5. Harris Savides, Milk
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Man on Wire
3. The Dark Knight
Best Cinematic Moment
1. The Joker's magic trick, The Dark Knight
2. Brad Pitt's accidental demise, Burn After Reading
3. Never go full retard, Tropic
Thunder
4. Swimming pool massacre, Let the Right One In
5. Paper Planes and trains, Slumdog Millionaire
6. Dracula's Lament, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
7. Randy works the deli counter,
The Wrestler
8. The Joker's interrogation, The Dark Knight
9. Between the Towers, Man on Wire
10. Tai Lung's Escape, Kung Fu Panda
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Michael Shannon
2. Russell Brand
3. Anton Yelchin
4. Josh Peck
5. Lina Leandersson
Best Body of Work
1. Richard Jenkins
2. Michael Shannon
3. Robert Downey Jr.
4. James Franco
5. Danny McBride
Best Ensemble Performance
1. Burn After Reading
2. The Dark Knight
3. In Bruges
4. Frost/Nixon
5. W.
Best Movie-Related Web Site
1. Theo's Century of Movies
2. The Man Who Viewed Too Much
3. Time Out Film
4. Roger Ebert's Journal
5. Hollywood Elsewhere
10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1998
1. Rushmore
2. Croupier
3. The Celebration
4. Fear and Loathing in
Las Vegas
5. The Truman Show
25th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1983
1. The Right Stuff
2. Videodrome
3. Scarface
4. The Big Chill
5. The Dead Zone
50th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1958
1. Vertigo
2. Elevator to the Gallows
3. Ivan the Terrible, Part
Two
4. The Magician
5. The Hidden Fortress