Best of 2008

Films
1 Synecdoche, New York
2 Milk
3 Frost/Nixon
4 The Wrestler
5 W.
6 The Visitor
7 Frozen River
8 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
9 Gran Torino
10 In Bruges

11 Elegy
12 Stop-Loss
13 Tropic Thunder
14 The Bank Job
15 Valkyrie
16 Changeling
17 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
18 What Just Happened
19 Doubt
20 Brideshead Revisited


Directors
1 Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
2 Gus Van Sant, Milk
3 Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
4 Oliver Stone, W.
5 Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon

Actors
1 Sean Penn, Milk
2 Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
3 Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
4 Josh Brolin, W.
5 Richard Jenkins, The Visitor


Actresses
1 Kate Winslet, The Reader
2 Melissa Leo, Frozen River
3 Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
4 Samantha Morton, Synecdoche, New York
5 Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky


Supporting Actors
1 Robert Downey Jr. Tropic Thunder
2 James Cromwell, W.
3 Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
4 Mark Strong, Body of Lies
5 Dennis Hopper, Elegy


Supporting Actresses
1 Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2 Viola Davis, Doubt
3 Taraji P. Henson,
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
5 Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married


Screenwriters
1 Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York
2 Robert Siegel, The Wrestler
3 Dustin Lance Black, Milk
4 Tom McCarthy, The Visitor
5 Courtney Hunt, Frozen River

Cinematography
1 Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
2 Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
3 Claudio Miranda,
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4 Reed Morano, Frozen River
5 Tom Stern, Changeling

Foreign-Language Films
1 The Counterfeiters (Austria)
2 I’ve Love You So Long (France)
3 My Brother Is an Only Child (Italy)
4 Gomorrah (Italy)
5 Tell No One (France)