Best Feature-Length Film
1. The Wrestler
2. A Christmas Tale
3. Let the Right One In
4. Gran Torino
5. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6. Waltz with Bashir
7. Wendy and Lucy
8. Happy-Go-Lucky
9. Rachel Getting Married
10. WALL*E
Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
2. Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
3. Josh Brolin, W.
4. Kåre Hedebrant, Let the
Right One In
5. Brad Pitt, The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button
Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Michelle Williams, Wendy
and Lucy
2. Anne Hathaway, Rachel
Getting Married
3. Kate Winslet, Revolutionary
Road
4. Lina Leandersson, Let
the Right One In
5. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Performance,
Male
1. Mathieu Amalric, A Christmas
Tale
2. Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
3. James Franco, Pineapple
Express
4. Heath Ledger, The Dark
Knight
5. Wally Dalton, Wendy and
Lucy
Best Supporting Performance,
Female
1. Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
2. Amy Adams, Doubt
3. Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel
Getting Married
4. Isla Fisher, Definitely,
Maybe
5. Tilda Swinton, The Curious
Case of Benjamin Button
Best Direction
1. Darren Aronofsky, The
Wrestler
2. Kelly Reichardt, Wendy
and Lucy
3. Ari Folman, Waltz with
Bashir
4. Arnaud Desplechin, A Christmas
Tale
5. Tomas Alfredson, Let the
Right One In
Best Screenplay
(original or adapted)
1. Robert Siegel, The Wrestler
2. Ari Folman, Waltz with
Bashir
3. Arnaud Desplechin & Emmanuel
Bourdieu, A Christmas Tale
4. John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let
the Right One In
5. Jonathan Raymond & Kelly
Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy
Best Cinematography
(film or video)
1. Hoyte Van Hoytema, Let
the Right One In
2. Maryse Alberti, The Wrestler
3. Sam Levy, Wendy and Lucy
4. Eric Gautier, A Christmas
Tale
5. Declan Quinn, Rachel Getting
Married
Best Music
(original, adapted, or compiled)
1. Waltz with Bashir
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin
Button
3. WALL*E
4. Speed Racer
5. The Happening
Best Cinematic Moment
1. Last scene, The Wrestler
2. Wendy finding her dog, Wendy
and Lucy
3. Fight with staple gun, The
Wrestler
4. Opening dream, Waltz with
Bashir
5. Final confrontation, Gran
Torino
6. Benjamin Button closing his
eyes for the last time, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. Not inviting the vampire inside,
Let the Right One In
8. Kym Telling the story about
her brother, Rachel Getting Married
9. Giant Woman hallucination,
Waltz with Bashir
10. Running from the wind, The
Happening
11. Exchange about Frosty the
Snowman, Doubt
Best Cinematic Breakthrough
1. Both child stars from Let
the Right One In, Kåre Hedebrant & Lina Leandersson
2. Anne Hathaway in Rachel
Getting Married showed a side of her I didn't know she was capable of
3. Jay Baruchel
4. Nick Schenk, writer of Gran
Torino
5. Martin McDonagh (anxious to
see more of his directorial efforts)
Best Body of Work
1. Danny McBride (stole every scene he was in this year)
2. Robert Downey, Jr.
3. Anne Hathaway
4. Josh Brolin
5. Tilda Swinton
Best Ensemble Performance
1. A Christmas Tale
2. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
3. Let the Right One In
4. The Wrestler
5. The Dark Knight
Best Movie-Related Web Site
1. A Film Canon
2. Cinebeats
3. Polar Bear's Film Journal
4. Self-Styled Siren
5. Sunset Gun
10th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1998
1. Out of Sight
2. Rushmore
3. Buffalo '66
4. Kirikou et la sorciere
5. The Truman Show
25th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1983
1. Local Hero (of the
three films from 1983 I've seen, this is the only one I like)
50th Anniversary Award, Best
Feature Film 1958
1. Vertigo
2. Touch of Evil
3. The Tarnished Angels
4. Some Came Running
5. Elevator to the Gallows
