Best Feature-Length Film
1. Milk
2. The Wrestler
3. WALL*E
4. Encounters at the End
of the World
5. Synecdoche,
New York
6. Zidane: A 21st Century
Portrait
7. Wendy and Lucy
8. Man on Wire
9. Let the Right One In
10. In Bruges
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Mickey Rourke – The
Wrestler
2. Phillip Seymour Hoffman –
Synecdoche, New York
3. Sean Penn – Milk
4. Colin Farrell – In
Bruges
5. Dev Patel – Slumdog
Millionaire
Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Michelle Williams –
Wendy and Lucy
2. Meryl Streep - Doubt
3. Naomi Watts – Funny
Games
4. Gillian Anderson – X-Files:
I Want to Believe
5. Amy Poehler – Baby
Mama
Best Supporting Performance,
Male
1. Heath Ledger – The
Dark Knight
2. James Franco – Milk/Pineapple
Express
3. Brendan Gleeson – In
Bruges
4. Michael Pitt – Funny
Games
5. Jude Law – My Blueberry
Nights
Best Supporting Performance,
Female
1. Lina Leandersson – Let
the Right One In
2. Amy Adams - Doubt
3. Samantha Morton – Synecdoche,
New York
4. Marissa Tomei – The
Wrestler
5. Viola Davis - Doubt
Best Direction
1. Gus Van Sant - Milk
2. Kelly Reichardt – Wendy
and Lucy
3. Darren Aronofsky – The
Wrestler
4. Danny Boyle – Slumdog
Millionaire
5. Michael Haneke – Funny
Games
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Martin McDonaugh, In Bruges
2. John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
3. Dustin Lance Black, Milk
4. David Mamet, Redbelt
5. Robert Siegel, The Wrestler
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Darius Khondji, Zidane:
A 21st Century Portrait
2. WALL*E
3. Peter Zeitlinger, Encounters
at the End of the World
4. Harris Savides, Milk
5. Darius Khondji, My Blueberry
Nights
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Milk
3. WALL*E
4. Funny Games
5. The Wrestler
Best Cinematic Moment
1. The Dark Knight - The
Joker taking a joy ride in a stolen police car.
2. In Bruges - Colin
Farrell karate chops the dwarf.
3. Man on Wire –
The walk between the towers.
4. Emo Harold in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay.
5. The first sequence in WALL*E.
6. The deranged penguin in Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World.
7. Brad Pitt's grin just before
getting shot in Burn After Reading
8. The pigeons in Bolt
explaining how to get his head unstuck from between the bars.
9. Zidane sets up a goal in Zidane:
A 21st Century Portrait. The perfect collision of the beautiful game and beautiful filmmaking.
10. Michael Pitt rewinds the
movie after the audience is finally given a break in Funny Games.
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Colin Farrell – In
Bruges
2. Mickey Rourke – The
Wrestler
3. Michelle Williams –
Wendy and Lucy
4. James Franco – Milk/Pineapple
Express
5. Dev Patel – Slumdog
Millionaire
Best Body of Work
1. Phillip Seymour Hoffman
2. Robert Downey Jr.
3. James Franco
4. Darius Khondji (My Blueberry
Nights, Zidane, Funny Games)
5. Kate Winslet
Best Ensemble Performance
1. Doubt
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Milk
4. In Bruges
5. Burn After Reading
Best Movie-Related Web Site
1. The House Next Door
2. Like Anna Karina's Sweater
3. The Screengrab
4. d+kaz
5. girish
10th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1998
1. The Thin Red Line
2. Rushmore
3. Buffalo '66
4. Babe: Pig in the City
5. Christmas in August
25th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1983
1. Sans Soleil
2. Born in Flames
3. Koyaanisqatsi
4. A Christmas Story
5. Videodrome
50th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1958
1. Vertigo
2. Touch of Evil
3. Elevator to the Gallows
4. A Movie
5. The Hidden Fortress