St. Louis Film Critics Award Nominees

Best Picture: 
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wall-E

Best Actor: 
Sean Penn (Milk)
Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)
Richard Jenkins (The Visitor)
Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Leonardo Di Caprio (Revolutionary Road)

Best Actress: 
Kate Winslet (The Reader and Revolutionary Road)
Angelina Jolie (The Changeling)
Cate Blanchett (Benjamin Button)
Anne Hathaway (Rachel Got Married)

No!! NOT ANGELINA JOLIE!! NOT ANGELINA JOLIE!!!! STOP GIVING THIS WOMAN AWARDS/NOMINATIONS!!

Best Supporting Actor: 
Heath Ledger (Dark Knight)
Josh Brolin (Milk)
Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder)
Michael Shannon (Reservation Road)
Jeffrey Wright (Cadillac Records)
John Malkovich (Burn After Reading).

Ledger, yes, Downey Jr., yes...and WOW Malkovich actually got some (deserved) recognition!!!

Best Supporting Actress: 
Taraji Henson (Benjamin Button)
Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
Frances McDormand (Burn After Reading)
Amy Adams (Doubt)
Viola Davis (Doubt)

Best Director: 
Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon)
David Fincher (Benjamin Button)
Gus Van Sant (Milk)
Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Chris Nolan (Dark Knight)

Foreign Language Film:
Slumdog Millionaire 
Let The Right One in 
The Class
I’ve Loved you So Long
Tell No One

Documentary
Man on a Wire
Body of War
Pray the Devil back to Hell
Shine A Light
Standard Operating Procedure

Best Comedy
Zack & Miri Make A Porno
Tropic Thunder
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Burn After Reading
Role Models

Best Animated Film 
Wall-E
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar 2
Bolt
Chicago 10
Waltz With Bashir

Most Original/Creative Feature: 
Benjamin Button
Wall-E
Speed Racer
Waltzing with Bashir
Slumdog Millionaire,
Synecdoche, New York

Best Cinematography: 
Benjamin Button
Dark Knight
Australia
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk

Well at least Australia got something.....

Best Screenplay: 
Benjamin Button
Gran Torino
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
Milk

Best Music: 
Gran Torino
Wall-E
Cadillac Records
The Visitor
The Dark Knight

Best Special Effects: 
The Dark Knight
Benjamin Button
Iron Man
Speed Racer
Wall-E
Synecdoche NY