Four New Critic Top Tens: St. Louis, San Diego, San Francisco and Southeastern

1. Milk
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. WALL•E
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Wrestler
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. The Reader
8. The Visitor
9. Frost/Nixon
10. Revolutionary Road

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: (Let the Right One In)

Runner-up: I’ve Loved You So Long (France)

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Man on Wire

Runner-up: Young@Heart

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: WALL•E

Runner-up: Kung Fu Panda

BEST DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle, (Slumdog Millionaire)

Runner-up: Gus Van Sant, (Milk)

BEST ACTOR: Sean Penn, (Milk)

Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, (The Wrestler)

BEST ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway, (Rachel Getting Married)

Runner-up: Kate Winslet, (The Reader)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, (The Dark Knight)

Runner-up: Robert Downey Jr., (Tropic Thunder)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penelope Cruz, (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Runner-up: Viola Davis, (Doubt)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Dustin Lance Black, (Milk)

Runner-up: Robert D. Siegel, (The Wrestler)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Simon Beaufoy, (Slumdog Millionaire)

Runner-up: Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

WYATT AWARD (for the film that best captures the “spirit of the South”): Shotgun Stories

Runner-up: The Order of Myths