2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

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Date December 9, 2008		Best Picture WALL-E

The 34th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2008. Pixar's animated film WALL-E won the Best Film award and became the first ever animated film to do so, however, the film lost the Best Animated Film award to Waltz with Bashir.

Winners

Best Picture:

WALL·E

Runner-up: The Dark Knight

Best Director:

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

Runner-up: Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight

Best Actor:

Sean Penn – Milk

Runner-up: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Actress:

Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky

Runner-up: Melissa Leo – Frozen River

Best Supporting Actor:

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumously)

Runner-up: Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky

Best Supporting Actress:

Penélope Cruz – Elegy and Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Runner-up: Viola Davis – Doubt

Best Screenplay:

Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky

Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York

Best Cinematography:

Yu Lik-wai – Still Life (Sanxia haoren)

Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire

Best Production Design:

Mark Friedberg – Synecdoche, New York

Runner-up: Nathan Crowley – The Dark Knight

Best Music Score:

A.R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire

Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Foreign-Language Film:

Still Life (Sanxia haoren) – China/Hong Kong

Runner-up: The Class (Entre les murs) – France

Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:

Man on Wire

Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

Best Animation:

Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:

James Benning – RR and Casting a Glance

New Generation Award:

Steve McQueen – Hunger

References

2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Wikipedia

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