12th Online Film Critics Society Awards January 19, 2009

Best Picture: WALL-E The 12th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were given on 19 January 2009.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture WALL-E The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Slumdog Millionaire The Wrestler

Best Director Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight Darren Aronofsky – The Wrestler Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Andrew Stanton – WALL-E

Best Actor Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler Benicio del Toro – Che Richard Jenkins – The Visitor Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon Sean Penn – Milk

Best Actress Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky Meryl Streep – Doubt Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler Amy Adams – Doubt Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona Viola Davis – Doubt Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Original Screenplay WALL-E – Andrew Stanton & Jim ReardonIn Bruges – Martin McDonagh Milk – Dustin Lance Black Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman The Wrestler – Robert D. Siegel

Best Adapted ScreenplayLet the Right One In – John Ajvide LindqvistThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

Best Foreign Language FilmLet the Right One In A Christmas Tale The Counterfeiters I've Loved You So Long Waltz with Bashir

Best Documentary Man on Wire Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father Encounters at the End of the World I.O.U.S.A. My Winnipeg

Best Animated Feature WALL-E Bolt Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who Kung Fu Panda Waltz with Bashir

Best Cinematography The Dark Knight – Wally PfisterAustralia – Mandy Walker Che – Peter Andrews The Fall – Colin Watkinson Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best EditingSlumdog Millionaire – Chris DickensThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall The Dark Knight – Lee Smith Milk – Elliot Graham WALL-E – Stephen Schaffer

Best Original ScoreThe Dark Knight – James Newton Howard & Hans ZimmerThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat Milk – Danny Elfman Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Breakthrough FilmmakerTomas 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

Breakthrough Performer Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In Russell Brand – Forgetting Sarah Marshall Kåre Hedebrant – Let the Right One In Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire Brandon Walters – Australia

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