THE 14th CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS NOMINEES

And the nominees are...

BEST PICTURE

Nominees:
• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Wall-E
• The Wrestler


BEST ACTOR

Nominees:
• Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
• Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
• Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn - Milk
• Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler



BEST ACTRESS

Nominees:
• Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth
• Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
• Angelina Jolie - Changeling
• Melissa Leo - Frozen River
• Meryl Streep - Doubt


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Nominees:
• Josh Brolin - Milk
• Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder (UMMMM what??)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
• Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight (yayyyy)
• James Franco - Milk



BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Nominees:
• Penelope 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
• Kate Winslet - The Reader


BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE


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


BEST DIRECTOR


Nominees:
• 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 WRITER (Original or Adapted Screenplay)


Nominees:
• Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
• Dustin Lance Black - Milk
• Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
• Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• John Patrick Shanley - Doubt


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Nominees:
• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
• Wall-E
• Waltz With Bashir


BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)

Nominees:
• Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees
• David Kross - The Reader
• Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire
• Brandon Walters - Australia


BEST ACTION MOVIE

Nominees:
• The Dark Knight
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace
• Wanted


BEST COMEDY MOVIE

Nominees:
• Burn After Reading
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Role Models
• Tropic Thunder
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona


BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Nominees:
• John Adams
• Recount
• Coco Chanel


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Nominees:
• A Christmas Tale
• Gomorrah
• I’ve Loved You So Long
• Let the Right One In
• Mongol
• Waltz With Bashir


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Nominees:
• I.O.U.S.A.
• Man On Wire
• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
• Standard Operating Procedure
• Young At Heart


BEST SONG


Nominees:
• "Another Way to Die" (performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, written by Jack White) - Quantum of Solace
• "Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel, written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman) - Wall-E
• "I Thought I Lost You" (performed Miley Cyrus and John Travolta, written by Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele) - Bolt
• "Jaiho" (performed by Sukhwinder Singh, written by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar) - Slumdog Millionaire
• "The Wrestler" (performed by Bruce Springsteen, written by Bruce Springsteen) - The Wrestler


BEST COMPOSER

Nominees:
• Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Clint Eastwood - Changeling
• Danny Elfman - Milk
• Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
• A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire

http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/2008.php

The Dark Knight is getting a lot of love, so is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Dec 9, 2008 - CST 4:29 PM]

Heath Ledger for supporting blows...Even the people that generally disliked the movie thought that he was its saving grace. He will win the award, but IMO..it should be "Best Actor" for I have yet to see anything that anybody else has done that even comes close.

Of course, "Iron Man" deserves the best action film award.

So they're nominating some pictures that haven't even opened yet, based on what, an advanced screener or studio-generated word of mouth?

John

there were bribes, and some people voted for movies based on what other people told them (and not based on their own viewings).

they'll call this one awards-gate.

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Of course, "Iron Man" deserves the best action film award.

But there's hardly any action in "Iron Man".

John, I never quite understand how every season there are movies nominated for awards that aren't released to the general public beforehand. Obviously a wide or even limited release is not a requirement. I always found it rather unfair that there's an awards season with mostly the glut of films near the end of the year seemingly in contention. This wasn't always the case was it?

Critics get to see movies well ahead of time. As so festival attendees. I saw The Wrestler in September.

Studios backload the films they identify as Oscar candidates into the end of the year so they'll be fresh in everyone's mind for both the critic's awards and for the Academy nomination.

As usual most of their choices are middlebrow bores, but that's the only kind of movie you can get a large group of people to agree on. Slumdog will win because I hated it. Well not BECAUSE I hated it, but I'm a great barometer for these sorts of things.

Robert Downey Jr gets a Best Supporting Actor nod for Tropic Thunder??

Don't get me wrong, he was great in the movie but...

why not give downey jr. the award for tropic thunder? you said he was great.

it is for this reason alone that these "awards" mean nothing to me. i realize the importance of the oscar name, and enjoy it when something/somebody wins which deserves too, ( rare) but the oscars are bs because of alot of the reasons already mentioned above. a friggin committee chooses what gets in and what doesn't with very little regard for what "we the people think." sure, sometimes..well ALOT of times "we the people" choose crap movies to turn into blockbusters, but that doesn't mean that all of them are crap. and just because a movie made alot of money, or was released early in the year, or god forbid, the summertime, that shouldn't exlude them from the race. and what the hell is up with these "oh we messed up that year by not giving scorsesse the oscar for goodfellas, so we will give it to him for the departed and everything will be fine!" oscars?

Making a lot of money is not exactly a strike AGAINST a movie when awards season comes around.

And this is an extremely populist-oriented list of titles. Mainstream movies every one, almost all with big name stars and/or directors. Plus the designated indie darling of the year (Slumdog.)

There are also plenty of "People's Choice" type awards out there if that's what you're into.