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The 34th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the
Los Angeles Film Critics Association The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975. Background Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles-based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organiza ...
(LAFCA), honored the best in film for
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. 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''.


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 – ''
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'' *Best Actress: ** Sally Hawkins – ''
Happy-Go-Lucky Happy Go Lucky may refer to: Film and television * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1936 film), an American film * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1943 film), an American musical film starring Betty Hutton * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1946 film), a French film * ''Happy Go L ...
'' **Runner-up: Melissa Leo – '' Frozen River'' *Best Supporting Actor: ** Heath Ledger – '' The Dark Knight'' (posthumously) **Runner-up: Eddie Marsan – ''
Happy-Go-Lucky Happy Go Lucky may refer to: Film and television * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1936 film), an American film * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1943 film), an American musical film starring Betty Hutton * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1946 film), a French film * ''Happy Go L ...
'' *Best Supporting Actress: ** Penélope Cruz – '' Elegy'' and '' Vicky Cristina Barcelona'' **Runner-up: Viola Davis – '' Doubt'' *Best Screenplay: ** Mike Leigh – ''
Happy-Go-Lucky Happy Go Lucky may refer to: Film and television * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1936 film), an American film * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1943 film), an American musical film starring Betty Hutton * ''Happy Go Lucky'' (1946 film), a French film * ''Happy Go L ...
'' **Runner-up:
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 ...
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'' *Best Cinematography: **
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– ''
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'' (''Sanxia haoren'') **Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – '' Slumdog Millionaire'' *Best Production Design: **Mark Friedberg – ''
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 ...
'' **Runner-up:
Nathan Crowley Nathan Crowley (born 28 February 1966) is an English production designer and a former art director, who is best known for his collaborations with Christopher Nolan. He was nominated six times for an Academy Award for Best Production Design for ' ...
– '' The Dark Knight'' *Best Music Score: **
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– '' Slumdog Millionaire'' **Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat – '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' *Best Foreign-Language Film: **''
Still Life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly wikt:inanimate, inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or artificiality, m ...
'' (''Sanxia haoren'') –
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/ 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: **
Steve McQueen Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1 ...
– '' Hunger''


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34th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
{{LAFCA Awards Chron
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975. Background Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles-based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organiza ...
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975. Background Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles-based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organiza ...
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975. Background Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles-based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organiza ...
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) is an American film critic organization founded in 1975. Background Its membership comprises film critics from Los Angeles-based print and electronic media. In December of each year, the organiza ...