Best Feature-Length Film
1. WALL*E
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button
3. Speed Racer
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Fall
6. Dear Zachary: A Letter
to a Son About His Father
7. Rachel Getting Married
8. Milk
9. Revolutionary Road
10. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and
2 Days
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Sean Penn - Milk
2. Colin Farrell – In
Bruges
3. Mickey Rourke – The
Wrestler
4. Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
5. Robert Downey Jr. –
Iron Man
Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Anne Hathaway – Rachel
Getting Married
2. Catinca Untaru – The
Fall
3. Anamaria Marinca – 4
Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
4. Cate Blanchett – The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Performance,
Male
1. Doug Jones – Hellboy
2: The Golden Army
2. Heath Ledger – The
Dark Knight
3. Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
4. Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Robert Downey Jr. –
Tropic Thunder
Best Supporting Performance,
Female
1. Debra Winger – Rachel
Getting Married
2. Viola Davis – Doubt
3. Kate Winslet – The
Reader
4. Amy Adams – Doubt
5. Tilda Swinton – The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Direction
1. David Fincher – The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Tarsem – The Fall
3. Gus Van Sant - Milk
4. Christopher Nolan –
The Dark Knight
5. Cristian Mungiu – 4
Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Jenny Lumet - Rachel Getting
Married
2. Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog
Millionaire
3. Joel & Ethan Coen - Burn
After Reading
4. Eric Roth - The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button
5. Christopher & Jonathan
Nolan - The Dark Knight
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Colin Watkinson - The
Fall
2. Claudio Miranda - The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Harris Savides - Milk
4. Maryse Alberti - The Wrestler
5. Emmanuel Lubezki - Burn After Reading
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Thomas Newman - WALL*E
2. James Newton Howard &
Hans Zimmer - The Dark Knight
3. Michael Giacchino - Speed
Racer
4. Carter Burwell - Burn
After Reading
5. Alexandre Desplat - The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Cinematic Moment
1. One of the concluding shots
in Benjamin Button, when the elderly Cate Blanchett leans down and kisses the little boy. One of the most beautiful
images I have ever seen in my life.
2. The final climactic race in
Speed Racer, when Speed explodes through the finish line.
3. WALL*E and EVE’s “space
dance,” where WALL*E propels himself around EVE with a fire extinguisher.
4. The visuals in The Fall,
which are too numerous to mention but too breathtaking to ignore.
5. The Joker’s disappearing pencil trick in The Dark Knight.
6. The Troll Market in Hellboy
2.
7. Anne Hathaway’s dinner
toast in Rachel Getting Married.
8. Eddie Marsan’s final,
furious meltdown in Happy-Go-Lucky.
9. Harvey Milk’s assassination.
10. Robert Downey Jr.’s
performance in Tropic Thunder. Can’t really single out one scene, but he deserves mention as one of the most
memorable cinematic moments of 2008.
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Tarsem (for The Fall)
2. Mickey Rourke (for The
Wrestler)
3. Anne Hathaway (for Rachel
Getting Married)
4. Martin McDonagh (for In Bruges)
5. Tom Cruise (for Tropic
Thunder)
Best Body of Work
1. Robert Downey Jr. (Iron
Man, Tropic Thunder, Charlie Bartlett)
2. Doug Jones (for the 3 roles
he played in Hellboy 2)
3. Michael Shannon (Shotgun
Stories, Revolutionary Road)
4. Richard Jenkins (The Visitor,
Burn After Reading)
Best Ensemble Performance
1. The Dark Knight
2. Burn After Reading
3. Tropic Thunder
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button
5. Milk
Best Movie-Related Web Site
1. Greencine Daily
2. The House Next Door
3. IMDb
4. Rotten Tomatoes
10th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1998
1. Dark City
2. American History X
3. Rushmore
4. Saving Private Ryan
5. The Big Lebowski
25th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1983
1. Return of the Jedi
2. Trading Places
3. Videodrome
4. Monty Python’s The
Meaning of Life
50th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1958
1. Vertigo
2. The Hidden Fortress
3. Touch of Evil
