Best Feature-Length Film
1. WALL*E
2. A Christmas Tale
3. Synecdoche,
New York
4. Revolutionary Road
5. The Wrestler
6. Flight of the Red Balloon
7. Alice's House
8. Slumdog Millionaire
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and
2 Days
10. Milk
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
2. Sean Penn, Milk
3. Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
4. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche,
New York
5. Dore Mann, Frownland
Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Kate Winslet, The Reader
2. Juliette Binoche, Flight
of the Red Balloon
3. Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
4. Catherine Deneuve, A Christmas
Tale
5. Samantha Morton, Synecdoche,
New York
Best Supporting Performance,
Male
1. Mathieu Amalric, A Christmas
Tale
2. James Franco, Milk
3. Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Slumdog
Millionaire
4. Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
5. Tom Noonan, Synecdoche,
New York
Best Supporting Performance,
Female
1. Dianne Wiest, Synecdoche,
New York
2. Chiara Mastroianni, A
Christmas Tale
3. Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
4. Michelle Williams, Synecdoche,
New York
5. Penelope Cruz, Vicky Christina
Barcelona
Best Direction
1. Andrew Stanton, WALL*E
2. Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche,
New York
3. Arnaud Desplechin, A Christmas
Tale
4. Hsiao-hsien Hou, Flight
of the Red Balloon
5. Sam Mendes, Revolutionary Road
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon,
WALL*E
2. Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
3. Arnaud Desplechin & Emmanuel
Bourdieu, A Christmas Tale
4. Jason Segal, Forgetting
Sarah Marshall
5. Chico
Teixeira, Alice's House
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Christopher Doyle & Rain
Kathy Li, Paranoid Park
2. Wally Pfister, The Dark
Knight
3. Maryse Alberti, The Wrestler
4. Mauro Pinheiro Jr., Alice's House
5. Michael Roy, Ciao
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Paranoid Park
2. Tropic Thunder
3. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
4. The Wrestler
5. WALL*E
Best Cinematic Moment
1. WALL*E cares for Eve, WALL*E
2. WALL*E and Eve's dance in
space, WALL*E
3. A face plant, A Christmas
Tale
4. the last ram, The Wrestler
5. The burning house metaphor,
Synecdoche, New York
6. The Dracula song, Forgetting
Sarah Marshall
7. Sam Mendes: "See honey, it's
not just me" (the 20 second sex
scenes in Revolutionary Road)
8. my girlfriend's decision to
walk out half-way through Sex and the City
9. the skateboarding footage
in Paranoid Park
10. the floating balloon, Flight
of the Red Balloon
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
2. David Kross, The Reader
3. James Franco
4. Jason Segel
5. Dore Mann
Best Body of Work
1. Kate Winslet (The Reader,
Revolutionary Road, "Extras")
2. Gus Van Sant (Milk,
Paranoid Park,
"Entourage," 8)
3. James Franco (Milk,
Pineapple Express, "SNL")
4. Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt,
Synecdoche, New York)
5. Josh Brolin (W.,
Milk)
Best Ensemble Performance
1. A Christmas Tale
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. The Dark Knight
4. Milk
5. Revolutionary Road
Best Movie-Related Web Site
1. Screengrab
2. They Shoot Movies, Don't They?
3. rogerebert.com
4. Spout Blog
5. Criterion
10th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1998
1. Rushmore
2. The Thin Red Line
3. Run Lola Run
4. Pi
5. Dark City
25th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1983
1. The King of Comedy
2. Confidentially Yours
3. Zelig
4. Koyaanisqatsi
5. National Lampoon's Vacation
50th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1958
1. Vertigo
2. Touch of Evil
3. Mon Oncle
4. The Magician
5. Gigi
