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Four New Critic Top Tens: St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco and Southeastern

Two for 'Milk' and one each for 'Button' and 'Slumdog'

BY: Brad Brevet | December 16th 2008 at 12:02 AM

Critic circles are going to be unveiling their top tens of 2008 at a furious clip and as evidence I have four new lists for you today over the next few pages as critics from St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco and those Southeastern folk have weighed in with their picks for the best films and performances of 2008.

As noted in the teaser above Milk comes out with two pics for Best Picture while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire also took a top prize each. Sean Penn continues to battle with Mickey Rourke for the Best Actor slot and even tied in San Francisco as they just couldn't make up their minds and offered up another tie. Heath Ledger took Best Supporting Actor on all four lists and Kate Winslet gets a bit of love for Revolutionary Road from the St. Louis crowd and for The Reader from the San Diego crowd while Sally Hawkins and Anne Hathaway each received a Best Actress nod from one of the groups.

Danny Boyle takes three of the four director slots with Gus Van Sant (Milk) filling the other as support for Boyle continues to grow without mention of his co-director on the feature Loveleen Tandan. Ahhhh, forgot or never heard of Tandan had yah? Well Sasha at Awards Daily did a nice little recap right here.

That's all the riffing I am going to do this time around. Check out each of the lists as I have placed one on each of the four pages in this article.

ST. LOUIS

BEST PICTURE: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

BEST ACTOR: Sean Penn (Milk)

BEST ACTRESS: Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Viola Davis (Doubt)

BEST DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Slumdog Millionaire (U.K./U.S.A/India)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Man On Wire

BEST COMEDY: Burn After Reading

BEST ANIMATED FILM: WALL•E

MOST ORIGINAL, INNOVATIVE OR CREATIVE FILM: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mandy Walker (Australia)

BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED): Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)

BEST MUSIC (SOUNDTRACK OR SCORE, ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED): The Visitor

BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: The Dark Knight

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"Spirit of the South" is a great award. Love it. And I love Shotgun Stories. The most unfairly neglected movie of the year, along with Frozen River and Ballast.

- MovieJay
( December 16th, 2008 | 2:27 am )
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Isn't it a coincidence that San Francisco picked Milk as best picture?…. A movie that is set in San Francisco.

Bias?

- JerzeyJon
( December 16th, 2008 | 11:07 am )
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YEAH! 4 wins for heath ledger! that made my day :)

- RIPsquishy
( December 16th, 2008 | 11:37 am )
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Glad to see San Fran finally reward Wally Pfister.

Phoenix and some Women's critics organization also released their Award winners as well. Slumdog won…both I think? It at least won Phoenix, and is looking like the clear favorite. It's still early yet, but I think it'll be the winner at the end.

Ledger won in the two that I mentioned as well as the four in the article, good to see him win a few; but I'm still scared for the GG's and Oscars.

I can honestly see the GG's giving supporting to Downey Jr. Since they love to award comedians or comedic roles at that award show.

- William
( December 16th, 2008 | 2:32 pm )
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Oh, and it's good to see In Bruges showing up often! I've always been a fan of Brandon Gleeson, and glad to see a film he starred in doing well at least in these minor award ceremonies.

- William
( December 16th, 2008 | 2:35 pm )
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@William: Downey won't win, you can write that down.

- Jerzey Jon
( December 16th, 2008 | 3:43 pm )
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Well I hope so.

- William
( December 16th, 2008 | 7:36 pm )
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Here's a critics awards that weren't mention here:

New York Online Film Critics

(December 15, 2008)

Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Animted Film: WALL-E
Director: Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Actor: Sean Penn – Milk
Actress: Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Screenplay: Slumdog Millionaire
Score: Slumdog Millionaire
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Documentary: Man on Wire
Breakout Performance: Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Debut as Director: Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
Ensemble: Milk

Top 10:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
In Bruges
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
WALL-E
The Wrestler

- Jerzey Jon
( December 16th, 2008 | 9:13 pm )
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so happy ben button finally awarded best pic yay to st. louis film critics!

- alyanna
( December 17th, 2008 | 7:40 am )
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The new yourk film critics award online for director was given to both the Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan (his co-director). It is important the due credit be given.

- manda
( December 26th, 2008 | 11:56 am )
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