The 4th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in
filmmaking
Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, casti ...
for
2008
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, were announced on December 16, 2008.
Top 10 Films
# ''
The Dark Knight''
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Slumdog Millionaire''
# ''
Milk
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Synecdoche, New York
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''
# ''
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* ''The Wrestler'' (2008 film), an American film directed by Darren Aronofsky
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WALL-E''
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Frost/Nixon''
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Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)''
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Gran Torino''
Winners
* Best Film:
** ''
The Dark Knight''
* Best Director:
**
Christopher Nolan – ''
The Dark Knight''
* Best Actor:
**
Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and film director. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama ''Mystic River'' (2003) and the biopic ''Milk'' (2008).
Penn began his acting career in televisi ...
– ''
Milk
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* Best Actress:
**
Anne Hathaway – ''
Rachel Getting Married''
* Best Supporting Actor:
**
Heath Ledger – ''
The Dark Knight''
* Best Supporting Actress:
**
Taraji P. Henson
Taraji Penda Henson ( ; born September 11, 1970) is an American actress. She studied acting at Howard University and began her Hollywood career in guest roles on several television shows before making her breakthrough in '' Baby Boy'' (2001). Sh ...
– ''
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button''
* Best Original Screenplay:
** ''
Synecdoche, New York
''Synecdoche, New York'' (pronounced ) is a 2008 American postmodern psychological drama film written and directed by Charlie Kaufman in his directorial debut. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as an ailing theater director who works on an incr ...
'' –
Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart Kaufman (; born November 19, 1958) is an American filmmaker and novelist. He wrote the films ''Being John Malkovich'' (1999), ''Adaptation'' (2002), and ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (2004). He made his directorial de ...
* Best Adapted Screenplay:
** ''
The Dark Knight'' –
Jonathan Nolan and
Christopher Nolan
* Best Cinematography:
** ''
The Fall'' –
Colin Watkinson
Colin Watkinson is an English cinematographer. He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (One Hour) for " Offred", the pilot episode of ''The Handmaid's Tale'', and was nominated in the same category ...
* Best Original Score:
** ''
The Dark Knight'' –
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard (born June 9, 1951) is an American film composer, music producer and keyboardist. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. His film scores ...
and
Hans Zimmer
* Best Foreign Language Film:
** ''
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)'' •
Sweden
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* Best Documentary:
** ''
Man on Wire''
* Best Animated Feature:
** ''
WALL-E''
* Best First Film:
**
Nacho Vigalondo
Ignacio Vigalondo Palacios (born 6 April 1977), better known as Nacho Vigalondo, is a Spanish filmmaker.
Career
Vigalondo's first film was the 2003 Spanish-language short film '' 7:35 in the Morning'', about a suicide bomber who terrorizes a ca ...
– ''
Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes)''
* Breakthrough Artist Award:
**
Danny McBride – ''
The Foot Fist Way
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'', ''
Pineapple Express'', and ''
Tropic Thunder
''Tropic Thunder'' is a 2008 satirical action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel, and Brandon T. Jackson as a gro ...
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* Austin Film Award:
** ''
Crawford
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* Crawford Bay Airport, British Columbia
* Crawford Lake Conservation Area, Ontario
United Kingdom
* Crawford, Lancashire, a small village near Rainford, Merseyside, England
* Crawford, South Lanarkshire, a ...
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References
External links
IMDb page
{{Austin Film Critics Association
2008 film awards
2008
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