Best Feature-Length Film
1. The Dark Knight
2. The Wrestler
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Gran Torino
5. Slumdog Millionaire
6. Man on Wire
7. Revolutionary Road
8. Let the Right One In (Note to readers: On my personal list, this tied with another exceptional vampire flick,
Twilight, but I’ve eliminated that one here because I know it won’t
get many votes.)
9. The Wackness (Note to readers: On my personal list, this tied with Nick
& Norah’s Infinite Playlist, but I’ve eliminated that one here because I know it won’t get many
votes.)
10. Frost/Nixon
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
2. Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
3. Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
4. Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
2. Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
3. Kate Beckinsale, Nothing but the Truth
4. Kristin Scott Thomas,
I’ve Loved You So Long
5. Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Supporting Performance, Male
1. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
2. Josh Brolin, Milk
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Doubt
4. Bee Vang, Gran Torino
5. Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Best Supporting Performance, Female
1. Evan Rachel Wood, The Wrestler
2. Viola Davis, Doubt
3. Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
4. Debra Winger, Rachel Getting Married
5. Olivia Thirlby, The Wackness
Best Direction
1. Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
2. Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
3. Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
4. David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Christopher & Jonathan
Nolan, The Dark Knight
3. Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
4. Nick Schenk, Gran Torino
5. Robert Siegel, The Wrestler
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Roger Deakins, Revolutionary Road
2. Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
3. Maryse Alberti, The Wrestler
4. Harris Savides, Milk
5. Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Twilight
3. Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. The Dark Knight
Best Cinematic Moment
1. Randy “The Ram”
lets his daughter down, The Wrestler
2. The Joker blows up Gotham Hospital, The Dark Knight
3. Jamal and company run
away from the cops to “O Saya” revealing the enormity of the Mumbai slums, Slumdog
Millionaire
4. Dracula: The Musical,
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
5. Walter Vale plays his
drum in the subway station in the final scene, The Visitor
6. Eli comes to Oskar’s
rescue in the final sequence, Let the Right One In
7. Tony Stark demos Stark
Industry’s new bomb, Iron Man
8. Michael learns he’s
in for more than a bath, The Reader
9. Memories of paddle-ball
on the beach, OSS 117: Cairo—Nest of Spies
10. Opening sequence/dog
chase, Waltz with Bashir
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Robert Downey Jr., brining
himself back into the spotlight in Iron Man
2. Mickey Rourke, doing
the same in The Wrestler
3. Olivia Thirlby, playing
much more than just the hot love interest in The Wackness
4. Viola Davis, stealing Doubt in only 12 minutes
5. Anne Hathaway, showing
audiences she’s definitely for realz in Rachel Getting Married
Best Body of Work
1. Roger Deakins, Revolutionary Road
and The Reader (but not Doubt, hehe)
2. Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But the Truth and Snow Angels
3. Richard Jenkins, The Visitor, Step Brothers, Burn
After Reading, The
Tale of Despereaux
4. Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
and The Reader
5. Rebecca Hall, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Frost/Nixon
Best Ensemble Performance
1. The Wrestler
2. Revolutionary Road
3. Frost/Nixon
4. Rachel Getting Married
5. Nothing but the Truth
Best Movie-Related Web Site
1. Roger Ebert - always the best
2. Hollywood Stock Exchange
3. Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily
4. Berardinelli's ReelViews
5. Breitbart's Big Hollywood
10th Anniversary Award, Best Feature
Film 1998
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Truman Show
3. Babe: Pig in the City
4. Great Expectations
5.
Rush Hour