2008

Always pruning, always re-thinking, always open to suggestions.

BEST PICTURE

Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight); Che(IFC Films); Milk (Focus Features); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Paramount/Warner Bros.); Revolutionary Road (Paramount Vantage/DreamWorks); Frost/Nixon (Universal); Doubt (Miramax); The Visitor (Overture Films), The Wrestler (Fox Searchlight), Gran Torino (Warner Bros.), Nothing But the Truth (Yari Film Group), WALL-E (Disney).

BEST DIRECTOR

David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button); Steven Soderbergh (Che); Gus Van Sant (Milk); Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road); John Patrick Shanley (Doubt); Stephen Daldry (The Reader); Tom McCarthy (The Visitor); Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler).

BEST ACTOR

Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road); Richard Jenkins (The Visitor); Josh Brolin (W.); Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler); Sean Penn (Milk); Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon); Benicio Del Toro (Che).

BEST ACTRESS

Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long); Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road, Meryl Streep (Doubt); Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married); Melissa Leo (Frozen River); Kate Beckinsale (Nothing But the Truth); Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky); Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight); Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder), James Franco (Milk), Alan Alda (Nothing But the Truth), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt); Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road); Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky).

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Viola Davis (Doubt); Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button); Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona); Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married); Marisa Tomei (The Wrestler); Elsa Zylberstein (I've Loved You So Long); Hiam Abbass (The Visitor); Vera Farmiga (Nothing But the Truth).

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie (Australia); Susannah Grant (The Soloist), Tom McCarthy (The Visitor), J. Michael Straczynski (Changeling), Robert D. Siegel (The Wrestler); Nick Schenk (Gran Torino), Rod Lurie (Nothing But the Truth), Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky); Peter Buchman, Steven Soderbergh (Che), Philippe Claudel (I've Loved You So Long).

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire), Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon), Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), John Michael Shanley (Doubt), Justin Haythe (Revolutionary Road), David Hare (The Reader).

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Everlasting Moments (Sweden, d: Jan Troell); Waltz with Bashir (Israel) The Class (France), Captain Abu Raed (Jordan); Gomorra (d: Matteo Garrone); The Baader Meinhof Gang (Germany, d: Uli Edel); Necessities of Life (Canada, d: Benoit Pilon); Tear This Heart Out (Mexico; d: Roberto Sneider); Departures (Japan, d: Yojiro Takita); Tulpan (Kazakhstan; d: Sergey Dvortsevoy).

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Man on Wire (d: James Marsh), Trouble the Water (d: Carl Deal,Tia Lessin); I.O.U.S.A. (d: I forget); Standard Operating Procedure (d: Errol Morris); Encounters At The End of The World (d: Werner Herzog). SHAMEFULLY OFF THE SHORT LIST: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (d: Marina Gordon); Stranded: I've Come From a plane that crashed on the mountains (d: Gonzalo Arijon); Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (d: Alex Gibney)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight), Colin Watkinson (The Fall)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull The Fall, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Dark Knight, Indy 4: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

WALL-E (Pixar/Walt Disney Pictures); Waltz with Bashir (Sony Pictures Classics); Kung Fu Panda (DreamWorks SKG), Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who (20th Century Fox), The Tale of Despereaux (Universal Pictures), Igor (The Weinstein Company), Bolt (Walt Disney Pictures), Space Chimps (20th Century Fox), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (DreamWorks SKG), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Warner Bros. Pictures).