2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

34th LAFCA Awards

December 9, 2008

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Best Film:
WALL·E

The 34th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2008. 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.^[1]

Winners

Danny Boyle, Best Director winner

Sean Penn, Best Actor winner

Heath Ledger, Best Supporting Actor winner

Penélope Cruz, Best Supporting Actress winner

• 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 – The Wrestler
• Best Actress:
  • Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Runner-up: Melissa Leo – Frozen River
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumously)
  • Runner-up: Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Penélope Cruz – Elegy and Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • Runner-up: Viola Davis – Doubt
• Best Screenplay:
  • Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
• Best Cinematography:
  • Yu Lik-wai – Still Life (Sanxia haoren)
  • Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Production Design:
  • Mark Friedberg – Synecdoche, New York
  • Runner-up: Nathan Crowley – The Dark Knight
• Best Music Score:
  • A.R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire
  • Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Best Foreign-Language Film:
  • Still Life (Sanxia haoren) – China/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 – Hunger

External links

• 34th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

References

1. "Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for 2008". http://www.firstshowing.net. External link in |publisher= (help)