2008 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 Oklahoma Film Critics winners: December 23, 2008
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
Best Film of 2008: Slumdog Millionaire dir. Danny Boyle
Top Ten Films (listed alphabetically):
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
The Wrestler
Best Foreign Film: Let the Right One In, dir. Tomas Alfredson
Best First Feature: Synecdoche, New York, dir. Charlie Kaufman
Best Documentary: Man on Wire, dir. James Marsh
Best Animated Film: WALL-E dir. Andrew Stanton
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Original Screenplay: Robert D. Siegel, The Wrestler
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire (Vikas Swarup, novelist)
Obviously Worst Film: The Love Guru
Not-So-Obviously Worst Film: Mamma Mia!
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Site
I'm kinda surprised that a movie like Slumdog Millionaire, with subtitles and all, was so popular with Oklahoma critics. I'd have thought that they would have liked stutff that was more mainstream. Perhaps I'm being prejudiced.
It doesn't matter where you are in the US, film critics seem to have the very same taste. I mean, how many good movies were made last year? How many good performances? The same ones keep showing up in those critics' lists, over and over and over again.
What a lack of imagination…