20th CFCA Awards
December 18, 2008
Best Film:
WALL-E
The 21st Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 18, 2008, honored the best in film for 2008. Disney/Pixar's WALL-E was the most successful film in the ceremony, winning four awards, including Best Film, out of five nominations. Slumdog Millionaire won three awards, while The Dark Knight and Let the Right One In won two awards each.
Winners and nominees edit
Best Actor edit
- Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
- Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
- Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
- Sean Penn – Milk
Best Actress edit
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
- Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Angelina Jolie – Changeling
- Melissa Leo – Frozen River
- Meryl Streep – Doubt
Best Animated Film edit
Best Cinematography edit
The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
- Australia – Mandy Walker
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
- The Fall – Colin Watkinson
- Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle
Best Director edit
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
- David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
- Andrew Stanton – WALL-E
- Gus Van Sant – Milk
Best Documentary Film edit
- American Teen
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
- I.O.U.S.A.
- Standard Operating Procedure
Best Film edit
Best Foreign Language Film edit
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in), Sweden
- The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret), Israel
- Che, France, Spain, & USA
- A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), France
- I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), France
Best Original Score edit
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
- The Dark Knight – Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
- Milk – Danny Elfman
- Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
Best Screenplay – Adapted edit
Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
- The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
- Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
- Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
Best Screenplay – Original edit
WALL-E – Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon
- In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
- Milk – Dustin Lance Black
- Rachel Getting Married – Jenny Lumet
- Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
Best Supporting Actor edit
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumously)
- Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
- Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
- Bill Irwin – Rachel Getting Married
- Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actress edit
- Amy Adams – Doubt
- Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Viola Davis – Doubt
- Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married
Most Promising Filmmaker edit
Tomas Alfredson – Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
- Lance Hammer – Ballast
- Courtney Hunt – Frozen River
- Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
- Steve McQueen – Hunger