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Keith Cohen | Film Comment | Emmanuel Levy | Adam Kempenaar | Erik Kohn | Robert Koehler | Andrew Nayman | Andrew O’Hehir | Tim Robey | Matty Robinson | Sukhdev Sandhu
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Marjorie Baumgarten | Laura Emerick | Jenny Halper | Nell Minow | Michelle Orange | Gerald Peary | Betsy Pickle | Jim Ridley | Jonathan Rosenbaum | Chuck Stephens
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
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Alliance of Women Film Journalists | Jason Anderson | Mark Asch | Saul Austerlitz | Andrew Grant | MaryAnn Johanson | David Sterrit | David Walsh | Chuck Wilson | Stephanie Zacharek
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Melissa Anderson | Joe DeShano | Cheryl Eddy | Dan Hudak | Bruce Ingram | Katherine Monk | Wilson Morales | Mike Russell | Felipa Solis | Amy Taubin
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Sam Adams | Richard Brody | Manohla Dargis | Peter DeBruge | Stephen Holden | Shawn Levy | Marc Mohan | Steven Persall | A.O. Scott | Anne Thompson
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African American Film Critics | David Ansen | Ethan Alter | Filmbrain | Owen Gleiberman | Glenn Kenney | Jennifer Merin | Michael Phillips | Hank Sartin | Lisa Schwarzbaum | Brian Tallerico
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Michael Atkinson | Jürgen Fauth | Richard Jameson | Don Kaye | Ben Kenigsberg | Dave McCoy | Kim Morgan | Kathleen Murphy | Matt Singer | Alison Willmore
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Austin Film Critics | Dallas Ft. Worth Film Critics | David Germain | Ed Gonzalez | Nathan Lee | Christy Lemire | Noel Murray | James Rocchi | Nick Schager | Kris Tapley
Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Christmas Tale, Ballast, Burn After Reading, Changeling, Che, Dear Zachary, Doubt, Elegy, Encounters at the End of the World, Flight of the Red Balloon, Frost/Nixon, Frozen River, Gomorrah, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Hunger, I've Loved You So Long, In Bruges, In the City of Silvia, Iron Man, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, My Winnipeg, Paranoid Park, Pineapple Express, Rachel Getting Married, Reprise, Revolutionary Road, Silent Light, Slumdog Millionaire, Standard Operating Procedure, Still Life, Synechdoche NY, Tell No One, The Class, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Edge of Heaven, The Fall, The Reader, The Visitor, The Wrestler, Trouble the Water, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir, Wendy and Lucy
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AFI | Philip French | Guardian Staff | Steve King | Joanna Langfield | Rebecca Murray | Milan Paurich | Richard Roeper | SouthEastern Film Critics | Susan Wloszczyna
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Richard Corliss | David Denby | David Edelstein | Shawn Edwards | Marshall Fine | Anthony Lane | Lou Lumenick | Nawtional Board of Review | Kyle Smith | Peter Travers
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Top Ten Lists; 265 Films Listed; 106 Films with one vote; Five films appear on more than 100 lists; Iron Man jumps 10 spots into the Top 20.
One Vote Wonders
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– | Best Picture | Best Director | Best Actor | Best Actress | Best Supp Actor |
Best Supp Actress |
Best Screenplay | Best Animation | Best Doc | Foreign Language | Total |
AWFJ BAFTA BFCA Boston* Detroit DFW Florida GGlobes Iowa NBR NYOnline Oklahoma Phoenix San Diego WashingtonDC |
AWFJ BAFTA BFCA Chicago Detroit DFW Florida GGlobes Houston Iowa Los Angeles NYOnline Ohio Oklahoma Phoenix San Diego SoEast FC WashingtonDC |
– | – | – | – | BAFTA BFCA Florida GGlobes Houston London NBR NYOnline Ohio Oklahoma –Phoenix San Diego SoEast FC WashingtonDC |
– | – | – | 46.5 | |
Boston* Chicago Los Angeles Online |
Utah | – | – | – | – | AWFJ Chicago Ohio Online |
Austin BAFTA BFCA Boston Chicago DFW Florida GGlobes Houston Iowa Las Vegas NBR New York NYOnline Ohio Oklahoma Online –Phoenix San Diego SoEast FC St. Louis Toronto Utah WashingtonDC |
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Austin Utah |
Austin Online |
– | – | Austin AWFJ BAFTA BFCA Boston Chicago Detroit DFW Florida GGlobes Houston Iowa Las Vegas Los Angeles NYOnline Ohio Oklahoma Online Phoenix San Francisco San Diego SoEast FC St. Louis Toronto Utah Vancouver WashingtonDC |
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New York San Francisco SoEast FC Vancouver |
Boston San Francisco |
Austin AWFJ BFCA Boston* DFW Houston Los Angeles National New York NYOnline Phoenix San Francisco* SoEast FC St. Louis Vancouver |
– | NBR New York Spirit |
– | Boston DFW Oklahoma* San Francisco SoEast FC |
– | – | – | 27.5 | |
London Spirit |
– | BAFTA Boston* Chicago Detroit Florida GGlobes Iowa London Ohio Oklahoma Online San Diego San Francisco* Spirit Toronto Utah WashingtonDC |
– | – | Detroit Florida Las Vegas Ohio Oklahoma Phoenix San Francisco San Diego |
Oklahoma* | – | – | – | 26.5 | |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Austin AWFJ* BFCA Boston Florida Las Vegas Los Angeles National NBR New York NYOnline Ohio Oklahoma Online –Phoenix San Diego SoEast FC Spirit St. Louis Toronto Utah WashingtonDC |
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Toronto Utah New York |
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National | – | Los Angeles National |
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GGlobes | – | – | – | – | BAFTA Boston Iowa Los Angeles NBR New York NYOnline SoEast FC Spirit |
Spirit | – | – | – | 11 | |
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– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Spirit | 1 | |
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Tags: Australia, Changeling, Che, Defiance, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, Rachel Getting Married, Revolutionary Road, Seven Pounds, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, The Road, The Soloist, The Wrestler, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, W., Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir
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ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Waltz with Bashir, Written by Ari Folman, Sony Pictures Classics
TELEVISION NOMINEES
DRAMATIC SERIES
Mad Men, Written by Lisa Albert, Jane Anderson, Rick Cleveland, Kater Gordon, David Isaacs, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Marti Noxon, Robin Veith, Matthew Weiner; AMC
COMEDY SERIES
30 Rock, Written by Jack Burditt, Kay Cannon, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Donald Glover, Andrew Guest, Matt Hubbard, Jon Pollack, John Riggi, Tami Sagher, Ron Weiner; NBC
NEW SERIES
In Treatment, Written by Rodrigo Garcia, Bryan Goluboff, Davey Holmes, William Meritt Johnson, Amy Lippman, Sarah Treem; HBO
EPISODIC DRAMA – any length – one airing time
“Pilot” (Eli Stone), Written by Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim; ABC
EPISODIC COMEDY – any length – one airing time
“Succession” (30 Rock), Written by Andrew Guest & John Riggi; NBC
LONG FORM – ORIGINAL – over one hour
Recount, Written by Danny Strong; HBO
LONG FORM – ADAPTATION – over one hour
John Adams, “Episode 1, Join or Die,” Teleplay by Kirk Ellis, Based on the book by David McCullough; “Episode 2, Independence,” Teleplay by Kirk Ellis, Based on the book by David McCullough; HBO
ANIMATION – any length – one airing time
“Apocalypse Cow” (The Simpsons), Written by Jeff Westbrook; Fox
COMEDY/VARIETY – (INCLUDING TALK) SERIES
Saturday Night Live, Head Writers Seth Meyers, Andrew Steele, Paula Pell, Writers Doug Abeles, James Anderson, Alex Baze, Jessica Conrad, James Downey, Charlie Grandy, Steve Higgins, Colin Jost, Erik Kenward, Rob Klein, John Lutz, Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels, John Mulaney, Paula Pell, Simon Rich, Marika Sawyer, Akiva Schaffer, Robert Smigel, John Solomon, Emily Spivey, Andrew Steele, Kent Sublette, Jorma Taccone, Bryan Tucker, Additional Sketches by Robert Carlock; NBC
COMEDY / VARIETY – MUSIC, AWARDS, TRIBUTES – SPECIALS
2008 Film Independent Spirit Awards, Written by Billy Kimball, Aaron Lee, Jennifer Celotta, Rainn Wilson; IFC/AMC
DAYTIME SERIALS
As the World Turns, Written by Jean Passanante, Leah Laiman, Courtney Simon, Lisa Connor, David A. Levinson, Peter Brash, Richard Culliton, Susan Dansby, Cheryl Davis, Leslie Nipkow; CBS
CHILDREN’S EPISODIC & SPECIALS
“Elmo’s Christmas Countdown” (Sesame Workshop), Written by Joey Mazzarino; ABC
CHILDRENS SCRIPT- LONG FORM OR SPECIAL
“Polar Bears” (The Naked Brothers Band), Written by Polly Draper; Nickelodeon
DOCUMENTARY – CURRENT EVENTS
“Bush’s War: Part One” (Frontline), Written by Michael Kirk; PBS
DOCUMENTARY – OTHER THAN CURRENT EVENTS
“Secrets of the Parthenon” (NOVA), Written by Gary Glassman; PBS
NEWS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED, BULLETIN OR BREAKING REPORT
ABC Weekend News, Written by Joel Siegel, Karen Mooney, David Muir; ABC
NEWS – ANALYSIS, FEATURE, OR COMMENTARY
“Yankee Stadium and the New Gilded Age” (Bill Moyers Journal), Writers Bill Moyers & Michael Winship; PBS
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BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN
Changeling
BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN
Frozen River
BEST STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award]
Jennifer Lumet: Rachel Getting Married
BEST ACTRESS:
Melissa Leo: Frozen River
BEST ACTOR
Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS:
Abigail Breslin: Kit Kittredge and Definitely Maybe
BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS: *TIE*
Sally Hawkins: Happy-Go-Lucky
Meryl Streep: Mamma Mia!
BEST FOREIGN FILM
I’ve Loved You So Long
BEST FEMALE IMAGES IN A MOVIE:
The Secret Life Of Bees
BEST UNRELEASED MOVIE:
How The Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
BEST EQUALITY OF THE SEXES:
Nothing But The Truth
BEST MUSIC:
Cadillac Records
BEST ANIMATED FEMALE:
Eve: WALL-E
BEST FAMILY FILM
WALL-E
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD:
Meryl Streep
ACTING AND ACTIVISM:
Natalie Portman
ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: For a film that most passionately opposes violence against women:
Changeling
JOSEPHINE BAKER AWARD: For best expressing the woman of color experience in America:
Ballast
KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For best exemplifying a woman’s place in history or society, and a courageous search for identity:
Battle In Seattle
COURAGE IN ACTING:
Deidra Edwards in DisFigured: For redefining conventional standards of female physical beauty and pride on screen, and promoting positive images of big bodied women.
BEST DOCUMENTARIES:
GROUNDBREAKER:
A Walk To Beautiful
ABOVE AND BEYOND:
Wings Of Defeat
COURAGE IN FILMMAKING:
Traces Of The Trade
MOST OFFENSIVE MALE CHARACTERS
Aaron Eckhart: Towelhead
Sam Rockwell: Choke,
Larry Bishop: Hell Ride
Paul Rudd, Sean William Scott: Role Models
Jason Mewes: Zack And Miri Make a Porno
TOP TEN HALL OF SHAME
Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired
House Of The Sleeping Beauties
The Women
The Life Before Her Eyes
The Hottie and the Nottie
Savage Grace
Made Of Honor
The Family That Preys
Hounddog
Zack And Miri Make A Porno
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FILME (Drama)
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Director
Danny Boyle, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Actress (Drama)
Angelina Jolie, CHANGELING
Actor (Drama)
Richard Jenkins, THE VISITOR
FILME (ComMus)
Happy. Go. Lucky
Actress (ComMus)
Sally Hawkins, HAPPY. GO. LUCKY
Actor (ComMus)
Ricky Gervais, GHOST TOWN
Actor Supporting
Michael Shannon, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD.
Actress Supporting
Rosemarie DeWitt, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED.
Foreign Language Film
Gomorra
Animated or mixedmedia film
WALL-E
Documentary
Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer and Man on Wire
Original screenplay
Thomas McCarthy, “The Visitor”
Adapted screenplay
Peter Morgan, “Frost/Nixon”
Original score
by A.R.Rahman, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Original song
“Another Way to Die” from Quantum of Solace
Cinematography
Mandy Walker, Australia
Visual effects
Chris Godfrey, James E. Price and Diana Giorgiutti, Australia
Editing
Dan Lebental, Iron Man
Sound (editing and mixing)
Richard King, The Dark Knight
Art direction and production design
Catherine Martin, Ian Gracie, Karen Murphy and Beverly Dunn, Australia
Costume design
Michael O’Connor, The Duchess
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The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Christian Colson
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
MAN ON WIRE
Simon Chinn
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
WALL-E
Jim Morris
The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award In Episodic Television – Comedy
30 ROCK
Lorne Michaels
Tina Fey
Marci Klein
Robert Carlock
Jeff Richmond
Jerry Kupfer
David Miner
Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television-Drama:
MAD MEN
Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television:
60 MINUTES
Jeff Fager
Producer of the Year Award in Live Entertainment and Competition Television:
THE COLBERT REPORT
Stephen T. Colbert, DFA
Jon Stewart
Allison Silverman
Richard Dahm
Meredith Bennett
Tom Purcell
David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television:
JOHN ADAMS
David Coatsworth
Frank Doelger
Gary Goetzman
Tom Hanks
Steven Shareshian
PGA honorary awards and recipients:
Milestone Award
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard
David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
Michael Douglas
Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television
David Chase
Visionary Award
Jeff Skoll
Vanguard Award
MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson
The Stanley Kramer Award
Milk
Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
Nominations
The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award
in Theatrical Motion Pictures
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall
Ceán ChaffinTHE DARK KNIGHT
Christopher Nolan
Charles Roven
Emma ThomasFROST/NIXON
Brian Grazer
Ron Howard
Eric FellnerMILK
Dan Jinks
Bruce CohenSLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Christian Colson
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
MAN ON WIRE
Simon ChinnSTANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
Julie Bilson Ahlberg
Errol MorrisTROUBLE THE WATER
Carl Deal
Tia Lessin
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
BOLT
Clark SpencerKUNG FU PANDA
Melissa CobbWALL-E
Jim Morris
The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award In Episodic Television – Comedy
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
Larry David
Jeff Garlin
Tim Gibbons
Erin O’Malley
Alec Berg
Dave Mandel
Jeff SchafferENTOURAGE
Stephen Levinson
Doug Ellin
Rob Weiss
Denis Biggs
Lori Jo Nemhauser
Wayne CarmonaTHE OFFICE
Greg Daniels
Kent Zbornak30 ROCK
Lorne Michaels
Tina Fey
Marci Klein
Robert Carlock
Jeff Richmond
Jerry Kupfer
David MinerWEEDS
Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television-Drama:
BOSTON LEGAL
Bill D’Elia
David E. Kelley
Mike Listo
Steve Robin
Janet KnutsenDAMAGES
Mark A. Baker
Glenn Kessler
Todd A. Kessler
Daniel ZelmanDEXTER
John Goldwyn
Sara Colleton
Clyde Phillips
Robert Lloyd LewisLOST
Jack Bender
Carlton Cuse
Drew Goddard
Jean Higgins
Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz
Damon Lindelof
Liz Sarnoff
Stephen Williams
Ra’uf GlasglowMAD MEN
Producer of the Year Award in Non-Fiction Television:
DEADLIEST CATCH
Thom Beers
Jeff Conroy
Lisa Tanzer
Ethan ProchnikFRONTLINE
David FanningKATHY GRIFFIN: MY LIFE ON THE D-LIST
Marcia Mulé
Bryan Scott
Lisa M. Tucker
Kathy Griffin
Chris Carlson
Amy Kohn60 MINUTES
Jeff FagerTHIS AMERICAN LIFE
Ken Druckerman
Ira Glass
Lisa Pollak
Julie Snyder
Banks Tarver
Nancy Updike
Kevin Vargas
Christopher Wilcha
Producer of the Year Award in Live Entertainment and Competition Television:
AMAZING RACE
Jerry Bruckheimer
Bertram van Munster
Jonathan Littman
Hayma “Screech” Washington
Amy Chacon
Elise Doganieri
Mark VertulloTHE COLBERT REPORT
Stephen T. Colbert, DFA
Jon Stewart
Allison Silverman
Richard Dahm
Meredith Bennett
Tom PurcellPROJECT RUNWAY
Rich Bye
Rich Buhrman
Jane Cha
Dan Cutforth
Desiree Gruber
Heidi Klum
Jane LipsitzREAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER
Bill Maher
Scott Carter
Sheila Griffiths
Dean JohnsenTOP CHEF
Rich Buhrman
Liz Cook
Dan Cutforth
Jane Lipsitz
Shauna Minoprio
Nan Strait
Andrew Wallace
David L. Wolper Producer of the Year Award in Long-Form Television:
24: REDEMPTIONBERNARD AND DORISJOHN ADAMS
David Coatsworth
Frank Doelger
Gary Goetzman
Tom Hanks
Steven ShareshianA RAISIN IN THE SUNRECOUNT
PGA honorary awards and recipients:
Milestone Award
Brian Grazer and Ron Howard
David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
Michael Douglas
Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television
David Chase
Visionary Award
Jeff Skoll
Vanguard Award
MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson
The Stanley Kramer Award
Milk
Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen
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Movie
“The Dark Knight”
Family movie
“WALL-E”
Action movie
“The Dark Knight”
Comedy movie
“27 Dresses”
Drama movie
“The Secret Life of Bees”
Independent movie
“The Secret Life of Bees”
Favorite cast
“The Dark Knight”
Male movie star
Will Smith
Leading man
Brad Pitt
Male action star
Will Smith
Female movie star
Reese Witherspoon
Leading lady
Kate Hudson
Female action star
Angelina Jolie
On-screen matchup
Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Superhero
Christian Bale as Batman, “The Dark Knight”
TV drama
“House”
TV comedy
“Two and a Half Men”
TV animated comedy
“The Simpsons”
Sci-fi/fantasy show
“Heroes”
Reality show
“Dancing With the Stars”
Game show
“Deal or No Deal”
Male TV star
Hugh Laurie
Female TV star
Christina Applegate
Talk show host
Ellen DeGeneres
Scene-stealing guest star
Robin Williams, “Law & Order Special Victims Unit”
TV drama diva
Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Johnson, “The Closer”
New TV comedy
“Gary Unmarried”
New TV drama
“The Mentalist”
Male singer
Chris Brown
Female singer
Carrie Underwood
Group
Rascal Flatts
R&B song
Alicia Keys, “No One”
Pop song
Katy Perry, “I Kissed a Girl”
Rock song
Kid Rock, “All Summer Long”
Country song
Carrie Underwood, “Last Name”
Hip-hop song
Flo Rida featuring T-Pain, “Low”
Combined forces
Jordin Sparks featuring Chris Brown, “No Air”
Song from a soundtrack
“Mamma Mia” from “Mamma Mia!”
Funny male star
Adam Sandler
Funny female star
Tina Fey
Star under 35
Carrie Underwood
Online sensation
“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”
User-generated video
“Barack Roll”
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BEST FILM
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler
BEST ACTOR
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep, Doubt
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Robert D. Siegel, The Wrestler
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Man on Wire
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Wall*E
THE VINCE KOEHLER AWARD
For Best Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film
The Dark Knight
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Best Feature
Frozen River
Courtney Hunt, director; Heather Rae, Chip Hourihan, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best Documentary
Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, producers/directors (Zeitgeist Films)
Best Ensemble Performance (tie)
Synecdoche, New York
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan (Sony Pictures Classics)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz (The Weinstein Company)
Breakthrough Director
Lance Hammer for Ballast (Alluvial Film Company)
Breakthrough Actor
Melissa Leo in Frozen River (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You™
Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley, producer/director
NOMINATIONS
Best Feature
Ballast
Lance Hammer, director; Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh, producers (Alluvial Film Company)
Frozen River
Courtney Hunt, director; Heather Rae, Chip Hourihan, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman, director; Anthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Visitor
Tom McCarthy, director; Mary Jane Skalski, Michael London, producers (Overture Films)
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky, director; Scott Franklin, Darren Aronofsky, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Documentary
Chris & Don: A Love Story
Guido Santi & Tina Mascara, directors; Julia Scott, Tina Mascara, Guido Santi, James White, producers (Zeitgeist Films)
Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog, director; Henry Kaiser, producer (THINKFilm / Image Entertainment)
Man on Wire
James Marsh, director; Simon Chinn, producer (Magnolia Pictures)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Maria Zenovich, director; Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Lila Yacoub, Marina Zenovich, producers (THINKFilm in association with HBO Documentaries)
Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, producers/directors (Zeitgeist Films)
Best Ensemble Performance
Ballast
Micheal J. Smith, Sr., JimMyron Ross, Tarra Riggs, Johnny McPhail (Alluvial Film Company)
Rachel Getting Married
Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe, Mather Zickel, Anna Deavere Smith, Anisa George, Debra Winger (Sony Pictures Classics)
Synecdoche, New York
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan (Sony Pictures Classics)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz (The Weinstein Company)
The Visitor
Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbas, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira (Overture Films)
Breakthrough Director
Antonio Campos for Afterschool
Dennis Dortch for A Good Day to Be Black & Sexy (Magnolia Pictures)
Lance Hammer for Ballast (Alluvial Film Company)
Barry Jenkins for Medicine for Melancholy (IFC Films)
Alex Rivera for Sleep Dealer (Maya Releasing)
Breakthrough Actor
Pedro Castaneda in August Evening (Maya Releasing)
Rosemarie DeWitt in Rachel Getting Married (Sony Pictures Classics)
Rebecca Hall in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company)
Melissa Leo in Frozen River (Sony Pictures Classics)
Alejandro Polanco in Chop Shop (Koch Lorber Films)
Micheal J. Smith, Sr. in Ballast (Alluvial Film Company)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You™
Afterschool
Antonio Campos, director; Josh Mond, Sean Durkin, producers
Meadowlark
Taylor Greeson, producer/director
The New Year Parade
Tom Quinn, director; Steve Beal, Tom Quinn, producers
Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley, producer/director
Wellness
Jake Mahaffy, director; Jake Mahaffy, Jeff Clark, producers
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Review: Little Women (no spoilers) - The Hot Blog
Box Office First Look - The Hot Blog
Why You Should Be Afraid Of The End Of The Paramount Decree - The Hot Blog
It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon