Broadcast Film Critics Awards 2009

by Deborah Arthur | Jan 8, 2009 | | 1 Comment    
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2009 Critics’ Choice Awards

2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Award nominations: December 9, 2008

2009 Critics’ Choice winners: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 8, 2009

("*" denotes the winner in each category)

 

Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire

 

BEST PICTURE
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
The Wrestler

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Christmas Tale
Gomorrah
I’ve Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Mongol
* Waltz With Bashir

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
I.O.U.S.A.
* Man on Wire
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Standard Operating Procedure
Young at Heart

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
* WALL-E
Waltz With Bashir

BEST DIRECTOR
* Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant, Milk

BEST ACTOR
Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
* Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS (tie)
Kate Beckinsale, Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
* Meryl Streep, Doubt

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
* Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
James Franco, Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Vera Farmiga, Nothing But the Truth
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
* Kate Winslet, The Reader

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
* Milk
Rachel Getting Married

BEST WRITER (ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
* Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt

BEST COMPOSER
Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood, Changeling
Danny Elfman, Milk
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, The Dark Knight
* A. R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire

BEST SONG
"Another Way to Die," Jack White and Alicia Keys/Jack White, Quantum of Solace
"Down to Earth," Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, Wall-E
"I Thought I Lost You," Miley Cyrus and John Travolta/Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele, Bolt
"Jaiho," Sukhwinder Singh/A. R. Rahman and Gulzar, Slumdog Millionaire
* "The Wrestler," Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (UNDER 21)
Dakota Fanning, The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross, The Reader
* Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Brandon Walters, Australia

BEST ACTION MOVIE
* The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wanted

BEST COMEDY
Burn After Reading
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
* Tropic Thunder
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
* John Adams
Recount
Coco Chanel

 

Broadcast Film Critics Association Site

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009


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One Response to “Broadcast Film Critics Awards 2009”

  1. mj on January 8th, 2009

    I don’t know if the Broadcast critics matter a whole lot or not – some say they do, others say they don’t.
    But I can tell you that I do want Milk to win. What a great, inspiring film. It deserves to win every award out there.
    If not Milk, then Wall-e.

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