On the heels of the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations the Chicago Film Critics Association (CFCA) have announced their 2008 winners and Pixar’s WALL•E scores Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Animated Feature and Score (Thomas Newman). Not too bad if you ask me as Slumdog Millionaire also does quite well winning for Director (Danny Boyle), Adapted Screenplay and Most Promising Performer (Dev Patel).
The most noticeable ingredient missing would be Milk, which wasn’t recognized at all as Mickey Rourke took Best Actor where he has been fighting neck-and-neck with Sean Penn all season. I also like seeing some attention for Kate Winslet’s performance in The Reader for Best Supporting Actress, even if she wasn’t the best of the year it’s nice to see I am not alone in liking it.
Here’s the complete list…
BEST PICTURE: WALL•E
BEST DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
BEST ACTOR: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
BEST ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kate Winslet, The Reader
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: WALL•E (Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon)
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Let the Right One In
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Man On Wire
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: WALL•E
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: The Dark Knight (Wally Pfister)
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: WALL•E (Thomas Newman)
MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
MOST PROMISING DIRECTOR: Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
