page_title: 29th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: 29th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards / Winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Mickey Rourke at the 2009 w:Tribeca Film Festival for the premiere of City Island. Photographers blog post about the event for this photo.
context_page_description: The 29th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were given on December 14, 2008.
context_section_description: Best Film (TIE):
  Slumdog Millionaire
  WALL-E
  Runner-up: Milk
  Best Actor (TIE):
  Sean Penn – Milk
  Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
  Runner-up (TIE): Richard Jenkins – The Visitor and Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
  Best Actress:
  Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
  Runner-up: Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
  Best Supporting Actor:
  Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
  Runner-up: Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
  Best Supporting Actress:
  Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  Runner-up: Viola Davis – Doubt
  Best Director:
  Gus Van Sant – Milk and Paranoid Park
  Best Screenplay:
  Dustin Lance Black – Milk
  Runner-up: Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
  Best Cinematography:
  Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li – Paranoid Park
  Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
  Best Documentary:
  Man on Wire
  Runner-up: Young @ Heart
  Best Foreign-Language Film:
  Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
  Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) • Israel
  Best Animated Film:
  WALL-E
  Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
  Best Editing:
  Chris Dickens – Slumdog Millionaire
  Best New Filmmaker:
  Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
  Best Ensemble Cast:
  Tropic Thunder
  Runner-up: The Visitor
caption: Mickey Rourke, Best Actor co-winner
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