Broadcast Film Critics Award Winners

BEST PICTURE 

Nominees: 
• Changeling 
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
• The Dark Knight 
• Doubt 
• Frost/Nixon 
• Milk 
• The Reader 
• Slumdog Millionaire 
• Wall-E 
• The Wrestler 


BEST ACTOR 

Nominees: 
• Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino 
• Richard Jenkins - The Visitor 
• Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon 
• Sean Penn - Milk 
• Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
• Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler 


BEST ACTRESS 

Nominees: 
• Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth 
• Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
• Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married 
• Angelina Jolie - Changeling 
• Melissa Leo - Frozen River 
• Meryl Streep - Doubt 


BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 

Nominees: 
• Josh Brolin - Milk 
• Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder 
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt 
• Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight 
• James Franco - Milk 


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

Nominees: 
• Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona 
• Viola Davis - Doubt 
• Vera Farmiga - Nothing But the Truth 
• Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
• Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler 
• Kate Winslet - The Reader 


BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE 

Nominees: 
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
• The Dark Knight 
• Doubt 
• Milk 
• Rachel Getting Married 


BEST DIRECTOR 

Nominees: 
• Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire 
• David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
• Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon 
• Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight 
• Gus Van Sant - Milk 


BEST WRITER (Original or Adapted Screenplay) 

Nominees: 
• Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire 
• Dustin Lance Black - Milk 
• Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon 
• Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
• John Patrick Shanley - Doubt 


BEST ANIMATED FEATURE 

Nominees: 
• Bolt 
• Kung Fu Panda 
• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 
• Wall-E 
• Waltz With Bashir 


BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21) 

Nominees: 
• Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees 
• David Kross - The Reader 
• Dev Petal - Slumdog Millionaire 
• Brandon Walters - Australia 


BEST ACTION MOVIE 

Nominees: 
• The Dark Knight 
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 
• Iron Man 
• Quantum of Solace 
• Wanted 


BEST COMEDY MOVIE 

Nominees: 
• Burn After Reading 
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall 
• Role Models 
• Tropic Thunder 
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona 


BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION 

Nominees: 
• John Adams 
• Recount 
• Coco Chanel 


BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 

Nominees: 
• A Christmas Tale 
• Gomorrah 
• I’ve Loved You So Long 
• Let the Right One In 
• Mongol 
• Waltz With Bashir 


BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE 

Nominees: 
• I.O.U.S.A. 
• Man On Wire 
• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired 
• Standard Operating Procedure 
• Young At Heart 


BEST SONG 

Nominees: 
• "Another Way to Die" (performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, written by Jack White) - Quantum of Solace 
• "Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel, written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman) - Wall-E 
• "I Thought I Lost You" (performed Miley Cyrus and John Travolta, written by Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele) - Bolt 
• "Jaiho" (performed by A.R. Rahman, written by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar) - Slumdog Millionaire 
• "The Wrestler" (performed by Bruce Springsteen, written by Bruce Springsteen) - The Wrestler 


BEST COMPOSER 

Nominees: 
• Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 
• Clint Eastwood - Changeling 
• Danny Elfman - Milk 
• Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight 
• A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire