Critic circles are going to be unveiling their top tens of 2008 at a furious clip and as evidence I have four new lists for you today over the next few pages as critics from St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco and those Southeastern folk have weighed in with their picks for the best films and performances of 2008.
As noted in the teaser above Milk comes out with two pics for Best Picture while The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire also took a top prize each. Sean Penn continues to battle with Mickey Rourke for the Best Actor slot and even tied in San Francisco as they just couldn’t make up their minds and offered up another tie. Heath Ledger took Best Supporting Actor on all four lists and Kate Winslet gets a bit of love for Revolutionary Road from the St. Louis crowd and for The Reader from the San Diego crowd while Sally Hawkins and Anne Hathaway each received a Best Actress nod from one of the groups.
Danny Boyle takes three of the four director slots with Gus Van Sant (Milk) filling the other as support for Boyle continues to grow without mention of his co-director on the feature Loveleen Tandan. Ahhhh, forgot or never heard of Tandan had yah? Well Sasha at Awards Daily did a nice little recap right here.
That’s all the riffing I am going to do this time around. Check out each of the lists as I have placed one on each of the four pages in this article.
BEST ACTOR: Sean Penn (Milk)
BEST ACTRESS: Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Viola Davis (Doubt)
BEST DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Slumdog Millionaire (U.K./U.S.A/India)
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Man On Wire
BEST COMEDY: Burn After Reading
BEST ANIMATED FILM: WALL•E
MOST ORIGINAL, INNOVATIVE OR CREATIVE FILM: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mandy Walker (Australia)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED): Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)
BEST MUSIC (SOUNDTRACK OR SCORE, ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED): The Visitor
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS: The Dark Knight
