2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
34th LAFCA Awards | |
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Date | December 9, 2008 |
Highlights | |
Best Picture | WALL-E |
The 34th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2008. Pixar's animated film WALL-E won the Best Film award and became the first ever animated film to do so, however, the film lost the Best Animated Film award to Waltz with Bashir.[1]
Winners
- Best Picture:
- WALL-E
- Runner-up: The Dark Knight
- Best Director:
- Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
- Runner-up: Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
- Best Actor:
- Sean Penn – Milk
- Runner-up: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
- Best Actress:
- Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Runner-up: Melissa Leo – Frozen River
- Best Supporting Actor:
- Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumously)
- Runner-up: Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Best Supporting Actress:
- Penélope Cruz – Elegy and Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Runner-up: Viola Davis – Doubt
- Best Screenplay:
- Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
- Best Cinematography:
- Yu Lik-wai – Still Life (Sanxia haoren)
- Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
- Best Production Design:
- Mark Friedberg – Synecdoche, New York
- Runner-up: Nathan Crowley – The Dark Knight
- Best Music Score:
- Best Foreign-Language Film:
- Still Life (Sanxia haoren) – China/Hong Kong
- Runner-up: The Class (Entre les murs) – France
- Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
- Man on Wire
- Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)
- Best Animation:
- Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)
- The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
- James Benning – RR and Casting a Glance
- New Generation Award:
References
- ↑ "Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for 2008". FirstShowing.net.
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