Not that I’m ordinarily all that interested in awards-season hoo-hah, but obviously I have to make an exception for my own group. The 2008 nominees for the Online Film Critics Society Awards (and I don’t mind admitting that I’m actually really proud of some of these)
Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
The Wrestler
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Best Actor
Benicio Del Toro, Che
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Original Screenplay
In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
Milk, Dustin Lance Black
Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon
The Wrestler, Robert D. Siegel
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth
The Dark Knight, Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan
Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist
Slumdog Millionaire, Simon B eaufoy
Best Documentary
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Encounters at the End of the World
I.O.U.S.A.
Man On Wire
My Winnipeg
Best Foreign Film
A Christmas Tale
The Counterfeiters
I’ve Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Waltz with Bashir
Best Animated Feature
Bolt
Horton Hears a Who
Kung Fu Panda
WALL-E
Waltz with Bashir
Best Cinematography
Che, Steven Soderbergh [as Peter Andrews]
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister
The Fall, Colin Watkinson
Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle
Best Original Score
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer
Milk, Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman
WALL-E, Thomas Newman
Best Editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall
The Dark Knight, Lee Smith
Milk, Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens
WALL-E, Stephen Schaffer
Breakthrough Performance
Russell Brand, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Kåre Hedebrant, Let the Right One In
Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In
Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Brandon Walters, Australia
Breakthrough Filmmaker
Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
Kurt Kuenne, Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Steve McQueen, Hunger