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Best Film
  
Slumdog Millionaire

Other ceremonies
  
2008, 2010

Date
  
8 January 2009

The 14th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to honor the finest achievements in 2008 filmmaking.

Contents

Nominees were announced on December 9, 2008.

Best Film

Slumdog Millionaire

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

    • 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 Documentary Film

    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 • Kazakhstan

    • Best Animated Film

    WALL·E

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

    • Best Television Film

    John Adams

  • Recount
  • Coco Chanel

    • 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
     Meryl Streep – Doubt

  • 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
  • Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
  • James Franco – Milk

    • 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 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 Screenplay

    Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire

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

    • 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
  • "I Thought I Lost You" performed by Miley Cyrus and John Travolta – Bolt
  • "Jai Ho!" performed by Sukhwinder Singh – Slumdog Millionaire

    • Joel Siegel Award

    Richard Gere

    Awards breakdown

    Number of nominations (minimum 2)

    8 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Milk6 The Dark Knight, Doubt and Slumdog Millionaire5 The Wrestler4 Frost/Nixon3 Changeling, The Reader and WALL·E2 Bolt, Nothing But the Truth, Quantum of Solace, Rachel Getting Married, Tropic Thunder and Vicky Cristina Barcelona

    Number of awards (minimum 2)

    5 Slumdog Millionaire2 The Dark Knight and Milk

    References

    14th Critics' Choice Awards Wikipedia
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