43rd NSFC Awards

January 3, 2009

---- Best Film:
Waltz with Bashir

The 43rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2009, honored the best in film for

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Winners

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Best Picture

1. '' Waltz with Bashir'' (''Vals Im Bashir'')
2. ''

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''
2. '' WALL-E''

Best Director

1. Mike Leigh – ''

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2.

Gus Van Sant Gus Green Van Sant Jr. (born July 24, 1952) is an American film director, producer, photographer, and musician. He has earned acclaim as both an independent and mainstream filmmaker. His films typically deal with themes of marginalized subcultur ...

– '' Milk'' and '' Paranoid Park''
3. Danny Boyle – '' Slumdog Millionaire''

Best Actor

1. Sean Penn – '' Milk''
2. Mickey Rourke – ''

The Wrestler The Wrestler may refer to: * ''The Wrestler'' (1974 film), an American film directed by James A. Westman * ''The Wrestler'' (2008 film), an American film directed by Darren Aronofsky * "The Wrestler" (song), a song from the 2008 film written and ...

''
3.

Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "''Doll ...

– '' Gran Torino''

Best Actress

1. Sally Hawkins – ''

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2. Melissa Leo – '' Frozen River''
3. Michelle Williams – '' Wendy and Lucy''

Best Supporting Actor

1. Eddie Marsan – ''

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2. Heath Ledger – '' The Dark Knight''
3. Josh Brolin – '' Milk''

Best Supporting Actress

Hanna Schygulla Hanna Schygulla (; born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer associated with the theater and film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She first worked for Fassbinder in 1965 and became an active participant in the New German ...

– '' The Edge of Heaven'' (''Auf der anderen Seite'')
2. Viola Davis – '' Doubt''
3. Penélope Cruz – '' Vicky Cristina Barcelona''

Best Screenplay

1. Mike Leigh – ''

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2. Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu – '' A Christmas Tale'' (''Un conte de Noël'')
3.

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 ...

– ''

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 ...

Best Cinematography

1. Anthony Dod Mantle – '' Slumdog Millionaire''
2. Pin Bing Lee – ''

Flight of the Red Balloon ''Flight of the Red Balloon'' (french: Le voyage du ballon rouge) is a 2007 French-Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It is the first part in a new series of films produced by Musée d'Orsay, and tells the story of a French family as se ...

'' (''Le voyage du ballon rouge'')
3. Wally Pfister – '' The Dark Knight''
4.

Yu Lik-wai Yu Lik-wai (; born 12 August 1966), sometimes credited as Nelson Yu, is a Hong Kong cinematography, cinematographer, film director, and occasional film producer. Born in Hong Kong, Yu Lik-wai was educated at Belgium's INSAS (Institut National Supe ...

– ''

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'' (''Sanxia haoren'')

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. '' Man on Wire''
2. '' Trouble the Water''
3. ''

Encounters at the End of the World ''Encounters at the End of the World'' is a 2007 American documentary film by Werner Herzog about Antarctica and the people who choose to spend time there. It was released in North America on June 11, 2008, and distributed by ThinkFilm. At the 81s ...

Best Experimental Film

* ''Razzle Dazzle'

Film Heritage Awards

# The Criterion Collection for finally making

Samuel Fuller Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and World War II veteran known for directing low-budget B movie, genre movies with controversial themes, often ...

's suppressed '' White Dog'' (1982) available to a wide American audience via DVD release. # '' The Exiles'', Kent Mackenzie's realistic 1961 independent film about Native Americans in Los Angeles. (Restored by

Ross Lipman Ross Lipman is an American restorationist, independent filmmaker and essayist. He is best known for his 2015 documentary ''Notfilm (film), Notfilm,'' his work with the Bruce Conner Family Trust and as Senior Film Restorationist at the UCLA Film & ...

of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and distributed by Milestone). # Flicker Alley for releasing DVD collections of rare early U.S. and foreign silent films. #

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment (commonly referred to as 20th Home Video, or 20th Home Entertainment, formerly known as 20th Century-Fox Video, CBS/Fox Video, Fox Video, and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) is a home video label of Wa ...

for its DVD set ''Murnau, Borzage and Fox''.

References

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Past Awards
{{NSFC Awards Chron 2008 film awards

2009 in American cinema