Chicago Film Critics Awards 2008

BEST FILM
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
* WALL-E

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
The Band’s Visit
Che
A Christmas Tale
I’ve Loved You So Long
* Let the Right One In

BEST DOCUMENTARY
American Teen
Dear Zachary
IOUSA
* Man on Wire
Standard Operating Procedure

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
The Tale of Despereaux
* WALL-E
Waltz with Bashir

BEST DIRECTOR
* Danny Boyle — Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Christopher Nolan — The Dark Knight
Andrew Stanton — WALL-E
Gus Van Sant — Milk

BEST ACTOR
Clint Eastwood — Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins — The Visitor
Frank Langella — Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn — Milk
* Mickey Rourke — The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
* Anne Hathaway — Rachel Getting Married
Sally Hawkins — Happy-Go-Lucky
Angelina Jolie — Changeling
Melissa Leo — Frozen River
Meryl Streep — Doubt

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Robert Downey Jr. — Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman — Doubt
Bill Irwin — Rachel Getting Married
* Heath Ledger — The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon — Revolutionary Road

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams — Doubt
Penélope Cruz — Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis — Doubt
Rosemarie Dewitt — Rachel Getting Married
* Kate Winslet — The Reader

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
In Bruges — Martin McDonagh
Milk — Dustin Lance Black
Rachel Getting Married — Jenny Lumet
Synecdoche, N.Y. — Charlie Kaufman
* WALL-E — Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Eric Roth
The Dark Knight — Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
Doubt — John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon — Peter Morgan
* Slumdog Millionaire — Simon Beaufoy

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Australia — Mandy Walker
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Claudio Miranda
* The Dark Knight — Wally Pfister
The Fall — Colin Watkinson
Slumdog Millionaire — Anthony Dod Mantle

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Alexandre Desplat
The Dark Knight — Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
Milk — Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire — A. R. Rahman
* WALL-E — Thomas Newman

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Russell Brand — Forgetting Sarah Marshall
David Kross — The Reader
Lina Leandersson — Let the Right One In
* Dev Patel — Slumdog Millionaire
Brandon Walters — Australia

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER
* Tomas Alfredson — Let the Right One In
Lance Hammer — Ballast
Courtney Hunt — Frozen River
Martin McDonagh — In Bruges
Steve McQueen — Hunger

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