14th Critics' Choice Awards

14th Critics' Choice Awards
14th Critics' Choice Awards
Date	January 8, 2009
Official website	www.criticschoice.com
Highlights
Best Film	Slumdog Millionaire
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The 14th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 8, 2009, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, honoring the finest achievements of 2008 filmmaking. The nominees were announced on December 9, 2008.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader WALL-E The Wrestler	Best Director Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Gus Van Sant – Milk Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Best Actor *Sean Penn – Milk* as Harvey Milk** Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino as Walt Kowalski Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Robin Ramzinski/Randy Robinson Richard Jenkins – The Visitor as Walter Vale	Best Actress Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym Buchman (Tie) Meryl Streep – Doubt as Aloysius Beauvier (Tie) Angelina Jolie – Changeling as Christine Collins Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Daisy Fuller Kate Beckinsale – Nothing but the Truth as Rachel Armstrong Melissa Leo – Frozen River as Ray Eddy
Best Supporting Actor *Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight* as Joker** James Franco – Milk as Scott Smith Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan White Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Brendan Flynn Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus	Best Supporting Actress *Kate Winslet – The Reader* as Hanna Schmitz** Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Pam/Cassidy Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Maria Elena Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Queenie Vera Farmiga – Nothing but the Truth as Erica Van Doren Viola Davis – Doubt as Miller
Best Young Performer *Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire* as Jamal Malik** Brandon Walters – Australia as Nullah Dakota Fanning – The Secret Life of Bees as Lily Owens David Kross – The Reader as Michael Berg	Best Cast Milk The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Rachel Getting Married
Best Writer Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth Doubt – John Patrick Shanley Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan Milk – Dustin Lance Black	Best Foreign Language Film Waltz with Bashir • Israel A Christmas Tale • France Gomorrah • Italy I've Loved You So Long • France Let the Right One In • Sweden Mongol • Kazakhstan
Best Animated Feature WALL-E Bolt Kung Fu Panda Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Waltz with Bashir Space Chimps	Best Documentary Feature Man on Wire (Tie) Stealing America: Vote by Vote (Tie) I.O.U.S.A. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Standard Operating Procedure Young@Heart
Best Action Movie The Dark Knight Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Iron Man Quantum of Solace Wanted The Incredible Hulk	Best Comedy Movie Tropic Thunder Burn After Reading Forgetting Sarah Marshall Role Models Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Composer Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman Changeling – Clint Eastwood The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat The Dark Knight – Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard Milk – Danny Elfman	Best Song "The Wrestler" – The Wrestler "Another Way to Die" – Quantum of Solace "Down to Earth" – WALL-E "I Thought I Lost You" – Bolt "Jai Ho" – Slumdog Millionaire

Best Picture Made for Television

John Adams

Coco Chanel
Recount

Joel Siegel Award

Richard Gere ^[1]

Statistics

Nominations	Film
8	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
8	Milk
6	The Dark Knight
	Doubt
	Slumdog Millionaire
4	Frost/Nixon
4	The Wrestler
3	Changeling
	The Reader
	WALL-E
2	Bolt
	Nothing but the Truth
	Quantum of Solace
	Rachel Getting Married
	Tropic Thunder
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona
	Waltz with Bashir

Wins	Film
5	Slumdog Millionaire
2	The Dark Knight
2	Milk

References

^ "Richard Gere to Receive Joel Siegel Award Presented by Diane Lane at VH1's 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Ceremony". Viacom. January 6, 2009. Retrieved August 19, 2015.

External links

Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Winners (Archive) Archived 2018-01-23 at archive.today for 14th-19th Awards

[1] "Richard Gere to Receive Joel Siegel Award Presented by Diane Lane at VH1's 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Ceremony". Viacom. January 6, 2009. Retrieved August 19, 2015.

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