Best Motion Picture

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Cean Chaffin; Kathleen Kennedy; Frank Marshall
• The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan; Charles Roven; Emma Thomas – WINNER
• Milk – Bruce Cohen; Dan Jinks; Michael London
• Slumdog Millionaire – Christian Colson – RUNNER UP
• WALL-E – Jim Morris

Best Achievement in Directing

• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire – WINNER
• David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road
• Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight – RUNNER UP
• Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Leonardo DiCaprio - Revolutionary Road
• Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn - Milk – RUNNER UP
• Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler – WINNER

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married – RUNNER UP
• Sally Hawkins - Happy Go Lucky
• Meryl Streep - Doubt
• Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road – WINNER

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Josh Brolin - Milk
• Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
• James Franco - Milk – RUNNER UP
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
• Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight – WINNER

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Amy Adams - Doubt
• Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona – RUNNER UP
• Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
• Kate Winslet - The Reader – WINNER

Best Original Screenplay 

• Martin McDonagh - In Bruges
• Dustin Lance Black - Milk – RUNNER UP
• Jenny Lumet - Rachel Getting Married
• Woody Allen - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon - WALL-E – WINNER

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Eric Roth & Robin Swiccord - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan - The Dark Knight – RUNNER UP
• John Patrick Shanley - Doubt
• Justin Haythe - Revolutionary Road
• Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire – WINNER

Best Cast Ensemble

• Burn After Reading - George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
• The Dark Knight - Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Cillian Murphy, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal – WINNER
• Doubt - Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis – RUNNER UP
• Milk - Sean Penn, James Franco, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna

Best Cinematography

• Mandy Walker - Australia
• Claudio Miranda - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Wally Pfister - The Dark Knight – WINNER
• Roger Deakins - Revolutionary Road
• Anthony Dod Mantle - Slumdog Millionaire – RUNNER UP

Best Original Score

• Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer - The Dark Knight – RUNNER UP
• Thomas Newman - Revolutionary Road
• A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire – WINNER
• Thomas Newman - WALL-E

Best Film Editing

• Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Lee Smith - The Dark Knight – WINNER
• Elliot Graham, Gus Van Sant - Milk
• Chris Dickens - Slumdog Millonaire – RUNNER UP
• Stephen Schaffer – WALL-E

Best Visual Effects

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – WINNER
• The Dark Knight – RUNNER UP
• Iron Man

Best Animated Feature

• Kung Fu Panda
• WALL-E – WINNER
• Waltz with Bashir – RUNNER UP

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Baadar Meinhof Complex
• The Class
• Gommorah
• Let the Right One In – RUNNER UP
• Waltz with Bashir – WINNER

Written by: Clayton Davis

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