Best Feature-Length Film
1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and
2 Days
2. Man on Wire
3. Synecdoche, New York
4. Happy-Go-Lucky
5. The Wrestler
6. The Dark Knight
7. Standard Operating Procedure
8. Let the Right One In
9. Waltz with Bashir
10. Tropic Thunder
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
2. Sean Penn, Milk
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche,
New York
4. Benicio Del Toro, Che
5. Sam Rockwell, Snow Angels
Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Michelle Williams, Wendy
and Lucy
3. Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months,
3 Weeks and 2 Days
4. Meryl Streep, Doubt
5. Tarra Riggs, Ballast
Best Supporting Performance,
Male
1. Heath Ledger, The Dark
Knight
2. Robert Downey Jr., Tropic
Thunder
3. Josh Brolin, Milk
4. Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
5. James Franco, Pineapple
Express
Best Supporting Performance,
Female
1. Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina
Barcelona
2. Samantha Morton, Synecdoche,
New York
3. Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
4. Viola Davis, Doubt
5. Dianne Wiest, Synecdoche,
New York
Best Direction
1. Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months,
3 Weeks and 2 Days
2. James Marsh, Man on Wire
3. Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche,
New York
4. Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Darren Aronofsky, The
Wrestler
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Charlie Kaufman, Synechdoche,
New York
2. Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months,
3 Weeks and 2 Days
3. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen,
Burn After Reading
4. Woody Allen, Vicky Cristina
Barcelona
5. Martin
McDonagh, In Bruges
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Darius Khondji, My Blueberry
Nights
2. Christopher Doyle & Rain
Kathy Li, Paranoid Park
3. Robert Richardson, Standard
Operating Procedure
4. Wally Pfister, The Dark
Knight
5. Hoyte Van Hoytema, Let
the Right One In
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Alexandre Desplat, The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Danny Elfman, Standard
Operating Procedure
3. Max Richter, Waltz with
Bashir
4. Alberto Iglesias, Che
5. A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematic Moment
1. Late night disposal, 4
Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2. Hardcore match, The Wrestler
3. Sweding montage, Be Kind
Rewind
4. Penguin going the wrong way,
Encounters at the End of the World
5. Sleepwalking, Step Brothers
6. Actors playing actors, Synecdoche,
New York
7. Waltzing, Waltz with Bashir
8. Open-heart surgery, Iron
Man
9. Nuclear test, Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
10. Gynecologist office, Teeth
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Lance Hammer, Ballast
2. James Franco, Pineapple
Express, Milk
3. Darren Aronofsky, The
Wrestler
4. Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel
Getting Married
5. Shea Whigham, Splinter
Best Body of Work
1. Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park, Milk)
2. Kate Winslet (The Reader,
Revolutionary Road)
3. Robert Downey Jr. (Charlie
Bartlett, Iron Man, Tropic Thunder)
4. Roger Deakins (Doubt,
The Reader, Revolutionary Road)
5. Philip Seymour Hoffman (Synecdoche,
New York, Doubt)
Best Ensemble Performance
1. Synecdoche, New York
2. Milk
3. Burn After Reading
4. Rachel Getting Married
5. Doubt
Best Movie-Related Web Site
1. The House Next Door
2. The Criterion Contraption
3. Roger Ebert’s Journal
4. Final Girl
5. Awardsdaily
10th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1998
1. The Thin Red Line
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas
4. Rushmore
5. The Big Lebowski
25th Anniversary
Award, Best Feature Film 1983
1. Videodrome
2. Koyaanisqatsi
3. The King of Comedy
4. A Christmas Story
5. Scarface
50th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1958
1. Vertigo
2. Touch of Evil
3. Mon Oncle
4. I Bury the Living
5. Elevator
to the Gallows