14th Critics' Choice Awards

Best Picture

Slumdog Millionaire

• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• WALL-E
• The Wrestler

Best Director

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

• David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
• Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
• Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Actor

Sean Penn – Milk

• Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Actress

Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married (TIE)
Meryl Streep – Doubt (TIE)

• Kate Beckinsale – Nothing But the Truth
• Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Angelina Jolie – Changeling
• Melissa Leo – Frozen River

Best Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

• Josh Brolin – Milk
• Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• James Franco – Milk
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt

Best Supporting Actress

Kate Winslet – The Reader

• Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis – Doubt
• Vera Farmiga – Nothing But the Truth
• Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Best Young Performer

Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire

• Dakota Fanning – The Secret Life of Bees
• David Kross – The Reader
• Brandon Walters – Australia

Best Cast

Milk

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Doubt
• Rachel Getting Married

Best Action Film

The Dark Knight

• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace
• Wanted

Best Comedy Film

Tropic Thunder

• Burn After Reading
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Role Models
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Animated Feature

WALL-E

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
• Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

Best Documentary Feature

Man on Wire

• I.O.U.S.A.
• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
• Standard Operating Procedure
• Young@Heart

Best Foreign Language Film

Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir) • Israel

• A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël) • France
• Gomorrah (Gomorra) • Italy
• I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime) • France
• Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
• Mongol (Монгол) • Kazakhstan

Best Picture Made for Television

John Adams

• Coco Chanel
• Recount

Best Composer

A. R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire

• Alexandre Desplat – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Clint Eastwood – Changeling
• Danny Elfman – Milk
• James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer – The Dark Knight

Best Song

"The Wrestler" (performed by Bruce Springsteen) – The Wrestler

• "Another Way to Die" (performed by Alicia Keys and Jack White) – Quantum of Solace
• "Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel) – WALL-E
• "Jai Ho" (performed by Sukhwinder Singh) – Slumdog Millionaire
• "I Thought I Lost You" (performed by Miley Cyrus and John Travolta) – Bolt

Best Writer

Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire

• Eric Roth – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
• Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon
• Dustin Lance Black – Milk

Joel Siegel Award

Richard Gere ^[1]