Runners-up:
Rachel Getting Married (Mongrel Media)
WALL•E (Disney/Pixar)
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Runners-up:
Sean Penn, Milk
Jean-Claude Van Damme, JCVD
Best Actress: Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
Runners-up:
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Runners-up:
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey, Jr, Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up:
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Best Director: Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up:
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Andrew Stanton, WALL•E
Best Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up:
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Best First Feature: Ballast, directed by Lance Hammer
Runners-up:
The Band’s Visit, directed by Eran Kolirin
Frozen River, directed by Courtney Hunt
Best Animated Feature: WALL•E(Disney/Pixar)
Runners-up:
Kung-Fu Panda (DreamWorks Animation)
Persepolis (Mongrel Media)
Waltz with Bashir (E1 Films)
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In (Mongrel Media)
Runners-up:
A Christmas Tale (Seville Pictures)
The Class (Mongrel Media)
I’ve Loved You So Long (Mongrel Media)
Best Documentary: Man on Wire (Mongrel Media)
Runners-up:
Standard Operating Procedure (Mongrel Media)
Up the Yangtze (KinoSmith/EyeSteelFilm)
