Best Feature-Length Film
1. Man on Wire
2. Milk
3. Happy-Go-Lucky
4. Synecdoche, New York
5. Rachel Getting Married
6. WALL*E
7. In Bruges
8. The Dark Knight
9. Standard Operating Procedure
10. Cloverfield
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Sean Penn, Milk
2. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche,
New York
3. Colin Farrell, In Bruges
4. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Redbelt
5. Robert Downey Jr., Iron
Man
Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Anne Hathaway, Rachel
Getting Married
2. Samantha Morton, Synecdoche,
New York
3. Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
4. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Mila Kunis, Forgetting
Sarah Marshall
Best Supporting Performance,
Male
1. Brad Pitt, Burn After
Reading
2. Richard Jenkins, Burn
After Reading
3. J. K. Simmons, Burn After
Reading
4. Tom Noonan, Synecdoche,
New York
5. Aaron Eckhart, The Dark
Knight
Best Supporting Performance,
Female
1. Frances McDormand, Burn
After Reading
2. Tilda Swinton, The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button
3. Cate Blanchett, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
4. Téa Leoni, Ghost Town
5. Debra Winger, Rachel Getting
Married
Best Direction
1. Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche,
New York
2. Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
3. David Mamet, Redbelt
4. Jonathan Demme, Rachel
Getting Married
5. Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Dustin Lance Black, Milk
2. Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
3. Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon,
WALL*E
4. Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche,
New York
5. Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting
Married
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Wally Pfister, The Dark
Knight
2. Claudio Miranda, The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button
3. Michael Bonvillain, Cloverfield
4. Matthew Libatique, Iron
Man
5. Ellen Kuras, Be Kind Rewind
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Jon Brion, Synechdoche, New York
2. Danny Elfmam, Standard
Operating Procedure
3. James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight
4. Stephen Endelman, Redbelt
5. Donald Harrison Jr., Rachel
Getting Married
Best Cinematic Moment
1. How-to Fight a Rapist With
a Knife, Redbelt
2. Dance Class, Happy-Go-Lucky
3. The Joker Hangs upside-down,
The Dark Knight
4. The Head of the Statue of
Liberty Lands in the Street, Cloverfield
5. Mother-Daughter Fight, Rachel
Getting Married
6. Connecting with the Homeless,
Happy-Go-Lucky
7. Original Footage of March
in San Francisco, Milk
8. Last Scene, Burn After
Reading
9. First flight, Iron Man
10. Movie Montage, Be Kind
Rewind
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Charlie Kaufman, direction
of Synecdoche, New York
2. Heath Ledger, acting in The
Dark Knight
3. Matt Reeves, direction of
Cloverfield
4. Martin McDonagh, writing and
direction of In Bruges
5. Anne Hathaway, acting in Rachel
Getting Married
Best Body of Work
1. Robert Downey Jr., Iron
Man & Tropic Thunder
2. Gus Van Sant, Milk & Paranoid Park
3. Cate Blanchett, The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button & Indiana Jones and
the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
4. Tilda Swinton, The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button & Burn After Reading
5. Danny Elfman, Milk,
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Wanted, Standard Operating Procedure
Best Ensemble Performance
1. Synecdoche, New York
2. Rachel Getting Married
3. Burn After Reading
4. Milk
5. The Dark Knight
Best Movie-Related Web Site
1. Todd Alcott, What Does The Protagonist Want
2. Internet Movie Database
3. Roger Ebert
4. John August
5. The Criterion Collection
10th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1998
1. Saving Private Ryan
(Steven Spielberg)
2. Rushmore (Wes Anderson)
3. The Big Lebowski
(Joel Coen)
4. Dark City (Alex Proyas)
5. The Last Days of Disco
(Whit Stillman)
25th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1983
1. Monty Python's The Meaning
of Life (Terry Jones)
2. Return of the Jedi
(Richard Marquand)
3. WarGames (John Badham)
4. Scarface (Brian DePalma)
5. Videodrome (David
Cronenberg)
50th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1958
1. Touch of Evil (Orson
Welles)
2. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock)
3. Run Silent, Run Deep
(Robert Wise)
4. The Seventh Voyage of
Sinbad (Nathan Juran)
5. The Blob (Irvin S.
Yeaworth Jr.)