Best Feature-Length Film
1. WALL*E
2. A Christmas Tale
3. The Class
4. The Order of Myths
5. The Dark Knight
6. Synecdoche, New York
7. Before I Forget
8. Chop Shop
9. The Secret of the Grain
10. The Edge of Heaven
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Jeffrey Wright, Cadillac Records
2. Mathieu Amalric, A Christmas Tale
3. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
4. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
5. Sean Penn, Milk
Best Lead Performance,
Female
1. Catherine Deneuve,
A Christmas Tale
2. Kristen Scott Thomas, I've Loved You So Long
3. Jeane Balibar, The Duchess of Langeais
4. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Juliette Binoche, The Flight of the Red Balloon
Best Supporting Performance,
Male
1. Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
2. Eamonn Walker, Cadillac Records
3. Anil Kapoor, Slumdog Millionaire
4. Richard Dreyfuss, W.
5. Eddie Marsen, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Performance,
Female
1. Viola Davis, Doubt
2. Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
3. Chiara Mastroianni, A Christmas Tale
4. Hafsia Herzi, The Secret of the Grain
5. Patricia Clarkson, Elegy
Best Direction
1. Arnaud Desplechin, A Christmas Tale
2. Laurent Cantet, The Class
3. Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
4. Ramin Bahrani, Chop Shop
5. Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Arnaud Desplechin & Emmanuel Bourdieu, A Christmas Tale
2. Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
3. Fatih Akin, The Edge of Heaven
4. Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, WALL*E
5. Jacques Nolot, Before I Forget
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Christopher Doyle & Rain Kathy Li, Paranoid
Park
2. "Peter Andrews" (i.e., Steven Soderbergh), Che
3. Rainer Klausman, The Edge of Heaven
4. Eric Gautier, A Christmas Tale
5. Frederick Elmes, Synecdoche, New York
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Grégoire Hetzel, A Christmas Tale
2. Jon Brion, Synecdoche, New York
3. Danny Elfman, Milk
4. Alberto Iglesias, Che
5. Shantel, The Edge of Heaven
Best Cinematic Moment
1. the insane penguin
in Encounters at the End of the World
2. the Joker's disappearing-pencil
trick in The Dark Knight
3. Robert Downey, Jr.:
"I gets excited about my foods, man" in Tropic Thunder
4. the slapstick testing
sequences with Downey and an overeager fire extinguisher in
Iron Man
5. Hellboy and Abe Sapien
drunkenly singing along with Barry Manilow: Hellboy II: The Golden Army
6. Mathieu Almaric's
pratfall into the street in A Christmas Tale
7. the big belly dance
musical number at the climax of The Secret of the Grain
8. Juliette Binoche
letting out her with witch voice during the puppet show in The Flight of the Red Balloon
9. Souleymane translating
his mother's pleas on behalf of her son in The Class
10. the first fifteen
minutes of WALL*E, before Everything Changes.
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Columbus Short, Cadillac Records
2. James Franco, Pineapple Express
3. Robert Dowey, Jr., Iron Man, etc.
4. Penelope Cruz, Vicky Christina Barcelona
5. Emile Hirsch, Milk
Best Body of Work
1. Robert Downey, Jr., Iron Man, Tropic Thunder
2. Jeffrey Wright, Cadillac Records, Iron Man, W.
3. Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy, Synecdoche, New York
4. Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park, Milk
5. Danny McBride, Tropic Thunder, The Foot Fist
Way, Pineapple Express
Best Ensemble Performance
1. A Christmas Tale
2. The Class
3. Synecdoche, New York
4. Cadillac Records
5. Milk
Best Movie-Related Web
Site
2. Green Cine Daily
3. Like Anna Karina's Sweater
4. If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger...
5. Girish
10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1998
1. Out of Sight
2. The General
3. The Dreamlife of Angels
4. Gods and Monsters
5. Velvet Goldmine
25th Anniversary Award, Best Feature Film 1983
1. The Makioka Sisters
2. The Right Stuff
3. Sans Soleil
4. Local Hero
5. Zelig
50th Anniversary Award,
Best Feature Film 1958
1. Touch of Evil
2. Ashes and Diamonds
3. Enjo
4. The Horse's Mouth
5. The Line-Up
