2008 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Award winners: December 17, 2008
Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
Best Film: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Top Ten Films (runners-up): MILK (2), THE DARK KNIGHT (3), THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (4), THE WRESTLER (5), THE VISITOR (6), FROST/NIXON (7), DOUBT (8), WALL-E (9), HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (10)
Best foreign-language film: TELL NO ONE
Runners-up: WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2), LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (3), I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (4) and GOMORRAH (5)
Best Documentary: MAN ON WIRE
Runners-up: WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2), YOUNG @ HEART (3), STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (4) and DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER (5)
Best Animated Film: WALL-E
Runners-up: KUNG FU PANDA
Best Director: Danny Boyle for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Runners-up: David Fincher for THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2), Christopher Nolan for THE DARK KNIGHT (3), Gus Van Sant for MILK (4) and Ron Howard for FROST/NIXON (5)
Best Actor: Sean Penn for MILK
Runners-up: Mickey Rourke for THE WRESTLER (2), Frank Langella for FROST/NIXON (3), Brad Pitt for THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (4) and Richard Jenkins for THE VISITOR (5)
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway for RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
Runners-up: Meryl Streep for DOUBT (2), Sally Hawkins for HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (3), Kristin Scott Thomas for I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (4) and Kate Winslet for REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (5)
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger for THE DARK KNIGHT
Runners-up: Josh Brolin for MILK (2), Eddie Marsan for HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (3), Philip Seymour Hoffman for DOUBT (4) and Robert Downey Jr for TROPIC THUNDER (5)
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis for DOUBT
Runners-up: Penélope Cruz for VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (2), Marisa Tomei for THE WRESTLER (3), Taraji P Henson for THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (4) and Rosemarie Dewitt for RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (5)
Best Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black for MILK
Runner-up: Simon Beaufoy for SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister for THE DARK KNIGHT
Runner-up: Claudio Miranda for THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Russell Smith Award ("best low-budget or cutting-edge independent film"): WENDY AND LUCY
Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Site
Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009