2008 Austin Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Austin Film Critics winners: December 16, 2008

Christian Bale in The Dark Knight
Best Picture: The Dark Knight
Top 10 Films:
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Milk
- Synecdoche, New York
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Wrestler
- WALL-E
- Frost/Nixon
- Let the Right One In
- Gran Torino
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary Film: Man on Wire
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Best Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Original Screenplay: Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Dark Knight, Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Best Cinematography: The Fall, Colin Watkinson
Best Original Score: The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
Breakthrough Artist Award: Danny McBride for Pineapple Express, The Foot Fist Way, Tropic Thunder
First Film: Timecrimes ("Los CronocrÃmenes"), Nacho Vigalondo
Austin Film: Crawford