Best Motion Picture

• “The Dark Knight” – Christopher Nolan; Charles Roven; Emma Thomas
• “Revolutionary Road” – Bobby Cohen; John Hart; Sam Mendes; Scott Rudin
• “Slumdog Millionaire” – Christian Colson
• “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” – Letty Aronson; Stephen Tenenbaum; Gareth Wiley
• “Wall-E” – Jim Morris

Best Achievement in Directing

• Woody Allen – “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
• Danny Boyle – “Slumdog Millionaire”
• Sam Mendes – “Revolutionary Road”
• Christopher Nolan – “The Dark Knight”
• Gus Van Sant – “Milk”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

• Leonardo DiCaprio – “Revolutionary Road”
• Colin Farrell – “In Bruges”
• Frank Langella – “Frost/Nixon”
• Sean Penn – “Milk”
• Mickey Rourke – “The Wrestler”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

• Rebecca Hall – “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
• Anne Hathaway – “Rachel Getting Married”
• Angelina Jolie – “Changeling”
• Meryl Streep – “Doubt”
• Kate Winslet – “Revolutionary Road”

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

• Robert Downey, Jr. – “Tropic Thunder”
• James Franco – “Milk”
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – “Doubt”
• Heath Ledger – “The Dark Knight”
• Michael Shannon – “Revolutionary Road”

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Amy Adams – “Doubt”
• Penelope Cruz – “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
• Viola Davis – “Doubt”
• Rosemarie DeWitt – “Rachel Getting Married”
• Kate Winslet – “The Reader”

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

• John Patrick Shanley – “Doubt”
• Peter Morgan – “Frost/Nixon”
• David Hare – “The Reader”
• Justin Haythe – “Revolutionary Road”
• Simon Beaufoy – “Slumdog Millionaire”

Best Performance by a Cast Ensemble

• “The Dark Knight”
• “Doubt”
• “Rachel Getting Married”
• “Revolutionary Road”
• “Tropic Thunder”

Best Original Score

• David Herschfelder – “Australia”
• Alexandre Desplat – “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
• James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer – “The Dark Knight”
• Thomas Newman – “Revolutionary Road”
• A.R. Rahman – “Slumdog Millionaire”

Best Film Editing

• Lee Evans – “The Dark Knight”
• Dan P. Hanley & Mike Hill – “Frost/Nixon”
• Elliot Graham & Gus Van Sant – “Milk”
• Chris Dickens – “Slumdog Millionaire”
• Stephen Schaffer – “WALL-E”

Best Cinematography

• Mandy Walker – “Australia”
• Claudio Miranda – “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
• Wally Pfister – “The Dark Knight”
• Harry Savides – “Milk”
• Anthony Dod Mantle – “Slumdog Millionaire”

Best Costume Design

• Catherine Martin – “Australia”
• Deborah Hopper – “Changeling”
• Jacqueline West – “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
• Danny Glicker – “Milk”
• Albert Wolsky – “Revolutionary Road”

Best Art Direction

• “Australia”
• “Changeling”
• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
• “The Dark Knight”
• “Revolutionary Road”

Best Sound

• “Australia”
• “The Dark Knight”
• “Slumdog Millionaire”
• “Tropic Thunder”
• “WALL-E”

Best Song From/Used in a Motion Picture

• “Australia” – “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
• “Forgetting Sarah Marshall – “Dracula’s Lament”
• “Pineapple Express – “Paper Planes”
• “Slumdog Millionaire” – “Jai Ho”
• “The Wrestler” – “The Wrestler”

Honorable Mentions

• “Australia”
• “Bolt”
• “Doubt”
• “Frost/Nixon”
• “In Bruges”
• “Milk”
• “Rachel Getting Married”
• “Tropic Thunder”
• “The Wrestler”
• “Zack & Miri Make a Porno”

Written by: Clayton Davis

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