Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2008

The 21st Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 18, 2008, honored the best in film for 2008. Disney/Pixar's WALL-E was the most successful film in the ceremony, winning four awards, including Best Film, out of five nominations. Slumdog Millionaire won three awards, while The Dark Knight and Let the Right One In won two awards each.

20th CFCA Awards

December 18, 2008

Best Film:
WALL-E

Winners and nominees

Danny Boyle, Best Director winner

Mickey Rourke, Best Actor winner

Anne Hathaway, Best Actress winner

Heath Ledger, Best Supporting Actor winner

Kate Winslet, Best Supporting Actress winner

Best Actor

Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Actress

Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married

Best Animated Film

Best Cinematography

The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister

Australia – Mandy Walker
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
The Fall – Colin Watkinson
Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

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 Documentary Film

Man on Wire

Best Film

Best Foreign Language Film

Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), Sweden

Best Original Score

WALL-E – Thomas Newman

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

Best Screenplay – Adapted

Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan

Best Screenplay – Original

WALL-E – Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon

In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
Milk – Dustin Lance Black
Rachel Getting Married – Jenny Lumet
Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman

Best Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumously)

Best Supporting Actress

Kate Winslet – The Reader

Amy Adams – Doubt
Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married

Most Promising Filmmaker

Tomas Alfredson – Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)

Most Promising Performer

Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire

Russell Brand – Forgetting Sarah Marshall
David Kross – The Reader
Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
Brandon Walters – Australia

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20100224070822/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=60

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