On the heels of the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) have announced their 2008 winners and Pixar's WALL•E scores Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Animated Feature and Score (Thomas Newman). Not too bad if you ask me as Slumdog Millionaire also does quite well winning for Director (Danny Boyle), Adapted Screenplay and Most Promising Performer (Dev Patel).

The most noticeable ingredient missing would be Milk, which wasn't recognized at all as Mickey Rourke took Best Actor where he has been fighting neck-and-neck with Sean Penn all season. I also like seeing some attention for Kate Winslet's performance in The Reader for Best Supporting Actress, even if she wasn't the best of the year it's nice to see I am not alone in liking it.

Here's the complete list…

BEST PICTURE: WALL•E

BEST DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

BEST ACTOR: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kate Winslet, The Reader

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: WALL•E (Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Let the Right One In

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Man On Wire

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: WALL•E

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Dark Knight (Wally Pfister)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: WALL•E (Thomas Newman)

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

MOST PROMISING DIRECTOR: Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In

Related post categories: Kudos to You, Those Other Awards : Slumdog Millionaire, WALL-E

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