The 2008 BFCA Critics’ Choice Awards winners contain one moderate surprise — a formal splitting of the Best Actress trophy between Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married) and Meryl Streep (Doubt), and a third portion of the award going to Kate Winslet by handing the Reader star the Best Supporting Actress award, which was obviously a partial nod to Winslet’s lead performance in Revolutionary Road.
Otherwise it was more of the usual-fine-yawn. Best Picture / Slumdog Millionaire; Best Actor / Sean Penn in Milk; Best Supporting Actor / Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight; Best Acting Ensemble / the Milk gang; Best Director /
Slumdog Millionaire‘s Danny Boyle; Best Original or Adapted Screenplay / Slumdog Millionaire‘s Simon Beaufoy; Best Animated Feature / WALL*E; Best Foreign Language Film / Waltz With Bashir; Best Documentary / Man On Wire.