2008 Austin Film Critics Association Awards Winners

Top 10 Films

The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Synecdoche, New York
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Wrestler
WALL-E
Frost/Nixon
Let the Right One In
Gran Torino

Best Picture - The Dark Knight
Best Director - Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor - Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress - Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress - Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Original Screenplay - Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
Best Adapted Screenplay - The Dark Knight, Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Best Cinematography - The Fall, Colin Watkinson
Best Original Score - The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmerman
Best Foreign Language Film - Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Best Documentary Film - Man on Wire
Best Animated Feature - WALL-E
Breakthrough Artist Award - Danny McBride, Pineapple Express/The Foot Fist Way/Tropic Thunder
Best First Film - Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes)
Best Austin Film - Crawford

2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards Winners

Best Picture - Milk
Best Director - Gus Van Sant, Milk
Best Original Screenplay - Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Best Adapted Screenplay - Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Best Actor - TIE: Sean Penn, Milk - Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress - Sally Hawkins, Happy Go Lucky
Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress - Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Foreign Language Film - Let the Right One In
Best Documentary - My Winnipeg
Best Cinematography - Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Marlon Riggs Award for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community - Rob Nilsson, filmmaker, in recognition of his 9@NIGHT series of films

2008 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards Winners

Best Film - Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-up - The Dark Knight
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 Actress - Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Actor - Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actress - Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Original Screenplay - Tom McCarthy, The Visitor
Best Adapted Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematography - Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Production Design - Donald Graham Burt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Editing - Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Score - A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Ensemble Performance - Frost/Nixon
Body of Work for 2008 - Richard Jenkins for The Visitor, Burn After Reading, Step Brothers, and The Tale of Desperaux
Kyle Counts Award - the film program at the San Diego Central Library "for its outstanding contribution to film education and its commitment to eclectic and excellent free public film programs"