# 14th Critics' Choice Awards

The 14th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 8, 2009, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, honoring the finest achievements of 2008 filmmaking. The nominees were announced on December 9, 2008.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Picture Slumdog Millionaire Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader WALL-E The Wrestler | Best Director Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Gus Van Sant – Milk Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon |
| Best Actor Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino as Walt Kowalski Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Robin Ramzinski/Randy Robinson Richard Jenkins – The Visitor as Walter Vale | Best Actress Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym Buchman (Tie) Meryl Streep – Doubt as Aloysius Beauvier (Tie) Angelina Jolie – Changeling as Christine Collins Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Daisy Fuller Kate Beckinsale – Nothing but the Truth as Rachel Armstrong Melissa Leo – Frozen River as Ray Eddy |
| Best Supporting Actor Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as Joker James Franco – Milk as Scott Smith Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan White Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Brendan Flynn Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus | Best Supporting Actress Kate Winslet – The Reader as Hanna Schmitz Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Pam/Cassidy Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Maria Elena Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Queenie Vera Farmiga – Nothing but the Truth as Erica Van Doren Viola Davis – Doubt as Miller |
| Best Young Performer Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire as Jamal Malik Brandon Walters – Australia as Nullah Dakota Fanning – The Secret Life of Bees as Lily Owens David Kross – The Reader as Michael Berg | Best Cast Milk The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Rachel Getting Married |
| Best Writer Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth Doubt – John Patrick Shanley Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan Milk – Dustin Lance Black | Best Foreign Language Film Waltz with Bashir • Israel A Christmas Tale • France Gomorrah • Italy I've Loved You So Long • France Let the Right One In • Sweden Mongol • Kazakhstan |
| Best Animated Feature WALL-E Bolt Kung Fu Panda Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Waltz with Bashir Space Chimps | Best Documentary Feature Man on Wire (Tie) Stealing America: Vote by Vote (Tie) I.O.U.S.A. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Standard Operating Procedure Young@Heart |
| Best Action Movie The Dark Knight Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Iron Man Quantum of Solace Wanted The Incredible Hulk | Best Comedy Movie Tropic Thunder Burn After Reading Forgetting Sarah Marshall Role Models Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
| Best Composer Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman Changeling – Clint Eastwood The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat The Dark Knight – Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard Milk – Danny Elfman | Best Song "The Wrestler" – The Wrestler "Another Way to Die" – Quantum of Solace "Down to Earth" – WALL-E "I Thought I Lost You" – Bolt "Jai Ho" – Slumdog Millionaire |

### Best Picture Made for Television

John Adams
* Coco Chanel
* Recount

### Joel Siegel Award

Richard Gere

## Statistics

| Nominations | Film |
| 8 | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button |
| 8 | Milk |
| 6 | The Dark Knight |
| 6 | Doubt |
| 6 | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 4 | Frost/Nixon |
| 4 | The Wrestler |
| 3 | Changeling |
| 3 | The Reader |
| 3 | WALL-E |
| 2 | Bolt |
| 2 | Nothing but the Truth |
| 2 | Quantum of Solace |
| 2 | Rachel Getting Married |
| 2 | Tropic Thunder |
| 2 | Vicky Cristina Barcelona |
| 2 | Waltz with Bashir |
| Wins | Film |
| 5 | Slumdog Millionaire |
| 2 | The Dark Knight |
| 2 | Milk |