Four More Critic Award Groups: Houston, Toronto, Phoenix and Dallas-Fort Worth
They just keep rolling in, don't they?
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Top Ten Films of 2008 (in alphabetical order):
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- Frost/Nixon
- In Bruges
- Milk
- The Reader
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The Visitor
- WALL•E
- The Wrestler
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Film: WALL•E
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role: Meryl Streep, Doubt
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Acting Ensemble: The cast of Milk
Best Screenplay written directly for the screen: In Bruges
Best Screenplay adapted from another medium: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematography: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Film Editing: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Score: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Original Song: "The Wrestler" from The Wrestler
Best Production Design: The Dark Knight
Best Costume Design: The Duchess
Best Visual Effects: The Dark Knight
Best Stunts: The Dark Knight
Breakout on Camera: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Breakout Behind the Camera: Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Best Performance by a Youth – Male: Ayush Mahesh Khedekar, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Performance by a Youth – Female: Dakota Fanning, The Secret Life of Bees
Best Live Action Family Film: High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Overlooked Film: In Bruges
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yay for benjie button a well deserved best pic from houston film critics.
I'm glad that some people aren't forgetting about "In Bruges". It was solid in every way. And definitely one of the big overlooked movies of the year. I hope at least the screenplay gets nominated, but I'd also like to see Ralph Fiennes nab a supporting actor nod. His work in just a few scenes stood out to me the whole year.
Oh, Come ON!!! The Dark Knight is not the Second Coming and definately doesn't deserve all those awards. As far as Comic Book movies go, Iron Man was 10 times better!! It dissapoints me that people insist on giving TDK all these awards. SERIOUSLY. There are tons of movies that deserve those awards so much more than TDK.
Does Phoenix actually have a category called overlooked?
Do they want to say, "hey we named others the best but don't forget to watch this one"?
In Bruges certainly is great but for me it's the ending that keeps it away from competing for the top spot but the rest of it was absolutely fantastic.
I expect (and received) good perfomance from Gleeson and Fiennes but Farrell really surprised and impressed me.
It's great how Ledger is getting honoured so much and in my opinion actually for is performance and not because he passed away so recently.
Such talent.
I can't wait until the Seattle group announces! What's that? We're not represented?
Oh. Then never mind.
IRON MAN!?!? Oh come on!!! Now you're getting ridiculous.
Iron Man was teriffic,but If Iron Man is better than the Dark Knight, George W. Bush will be President for 4 more years…I promise you that!!
Let's not get crazy now!
Just wait and see what happens on January 22 when the nominations are announced.
And, if it disappoints you, it looks like The Dark Knight will be nominated for Best PIcture, with the buzz going around it.
Stop making this a Marvel vs. DC thing please!
Laremy: That's sad….even Kansas City, last place I lived while in the States, has an official Kansas City Film Critics Circle which hands out awards for films, etc. Most of them wouldn't know a good film from the over-cooked surface of a pudding, but they _do_ have their own awards program!
@Omar: It's not a "Marvel vs. DC thing". It's a good movie vs. not so good movie thing. It might just be a matter of taste. But you have to at least admit that TDK was NOT as good as everyone thought it was!!
The Phoenix Film Critics are obviously nuts. The fact that they would have a category for Best Live Action Family Film seems odd, and the fact that they gave to one of this year's WORST movies is even more disturbing.