The Dark Knight has done well with critics this season with Heath Ledger getting several nods as Best Supporting Actor, director of photography Wally Pfister getting named for Best Cinematography, Chris Nolan getting runner-up kudos for director along with the film itself coming in runner-up a couple of times as well as being listed on several top tens. However, the Austin Film Critics Association has gone a different route and named it the best film of the year.
Ledger also won for Best Supporting, Nolan for Director and Screenplay with his brother Jonathan, and the Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard score took home the top prize, Penn wins again for Actor, Hathaway gets another Actress notice and it’s nice to see Taraji P. Henson getting a nod for Supporting Actress in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
The rest of the list can be seen directly below and all of our critic list recaps can be found right here.
Top 10 Films:
- The Dark Knight
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Milk
- Synecdoche, New York
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Wrestler
- Wall*E
- Frost/Nixon
- Let the Right One In
- Gran Torino
Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Supporting Actress: Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
Adapted Screenplay: The Dark Knight, Jonthan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Cinematography: The Fall, Colin Watkinson
Original Score: The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmerman
Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) (Sweden)
Documentary Film: Man on Wire
Animated Feature: WALL•E
Breakthrough Artist Award: Danny McBride, Pineapple Express/The Foot Fist Way/Tropic Thunder
First Film: Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes (Los CronocrÃmenes)
Austin Film: Crawford
