San Francisco Critics Award Winners

Best Picture: Milk

Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In

Best Documentary: My Winnipeg

Best Director: Gus Van Sant, Milk

Best Actor (tie): Sean Penn, Milk, and Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, Milk

Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon

Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight

Who got a boost?:

• Marisa Tomei for Best Supporting Actress. It was one thing for her to grab the crucial Globe nomination, but for her to actually win an award is a great shot in the arm for her awards campaign.
• Rourke and Penn for Best Actor. The Best Actor seems to be between these two veterans. Sorry Frank Langella.
• Sally Hawkins for Best Actress. She has, far and away, the most awards and seems to be gaining tremendous momentum. What's truly amazing is that, in a year filled with heavy dramatic performances (especially for women), a performance in a comedy (albeit one with some serious moments) is sweeping the precursors.
  
• Milk for Picture, Director, and Screenplay.
• The Dark Knight for Cinematography.
• Frost/Nixon for Adapted Screenplay.

Who got snubbed?:

• Doubt in all categories.
• Revolutionary Road.
• The Reader.
• Slumdog Millionaire (although this is hardly a set back considering how well it's been doing).