2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards
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 filmmaking of 2008.
Contents
Winners
Best Picture
1. Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
2. Happy-Go-Lucky
2. WALL•E
Best Director
1. Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Gus Van Sant – Milk and Paranoid Park
3. Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor
1. Sean Penn – Milk
2. Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
3. Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
Best Actress
1. Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Melissa Leo – Frozen River
3. Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy
Best Supporting Actor
1. Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
3. Josh Brolin – Milk
Best Supporting Actress
1. Hanna Schygulla – The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite)
2. Viola Davis – Doubt
3. Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Screenplay
1. Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu – A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)
3. Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
Best Cinematography
1. Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
2. Pin Bing Lee – Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge)
3. Wally Pfister – The Dark Knight
4. Yu Lik-wai – Still Life (Sanxia haoren)
Best Non-Fiction Film
1. Man on Wire
2. Trouble the Water
3. Encounters at the End of the World
Best Experimental Film
- Razzle Dazzle [1]
Film Heritage Awards
- The Criterion Collection for finally making Samuel Fuller’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 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 for its DVD set “Murnau, Borzage and Fox.”
External links
References
- 'Bashir' takes top honors from National Society of Film Critics Los Angeles Times
- “Waltz With Bashir” Sweeps National Society of Film Critics Off Feet The New York Times
- "Waltz" and "Lucky" Take National Society of Film Critics Honors IndieWire
