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 in film for 2008.[1][2][3]
Winners
[edit]Best Picture
[edit]1. Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
2. Happy-Go-Lucky
2. WALL-E
Best Director
[edit]1. Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Gus Van Sant – Milk and Paranoid Park
3. Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor
[edit]1. Sean Penn – Milk
2. Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
3. Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
Best Actress
[edit]1. Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Melissa Leo – Frozen River
3. Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy
Best Supporting Actor
[edit]1. Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
3. Josh Brolin – Milk
Best Supporting Actress
[edit]1. Hanna Schygulla – The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite)
2. Viola Davis – Doubt
3. Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Screenplay
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]1. Man on Wire
2. Trouble the Water
3. Encounters at the End of the World
Best Experimental Film
[edit]- Razzle Dazzle [1]
Film Heritage Awards
[edit]- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Brooks, Brian (3 January 2009). ""Waltz" and "Lucky" Take National Society of Film Critics Honors". IndieWire. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ King, Susan (4 January 2009). "'Bashir' takes top honors from National Society of Film Critics". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ ""Waltz With Bashir" Sweeps National Society of Film Critics Off Feet". The New York Times. 3 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2018.