Austin Critics Go Batty, Pick The Dark Knight as Best of 2008
Posted by Adam Sweeney (adam@filmschoolrejects.com) on December 17, 2008
I love nearly everything about Austin,Texas. Now one more thing to adore is their choices of films to award, starting with The Dark Knight.
The Austin Film Critics Association chose The Dark Knight for best picture of 2008, something the Oscars won’t have the courage to do. Yeah, I said it. The film earned five awards overall, getting the nod for director Christopher Nolan, adapted screenplay, Heath Ledger as best supporting actor and best score. (Surely there will be someone who feels the need to make some sex joke based on how I wrote that sentence. Don’t do it, peeps.)
Sean Penn won best actor for his work in Milk, while Anne Hathaway won best actress for Rachel Getting Married. Taraji P. Henson got the best supporting actress award for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a film I can not wait to see.
Here’s the entire list of the awards given Discuss amongst yourselves. And by amongst yourselves I mean with us, of course. (Thanks to Variety for giving us the heads up.)
Top 10 Films:
- “The Dark Knight
- “Slumdog Millionaire”
- “Milk”
- “Synecdoche, New York”
- “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- “The Wrestler”
- “Wall*E”
- “Frost/Nixon”
- “Let the Right One In”
- “Gran Torino”
Picture:
“The Dark Knight”
Director:
Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight”
Actor:
Sean Penn, “Milk”
Actress:
Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married
Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight
Supporting Actress:
Taraji P. Henson, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Original Screenplay:
Charlie Kaufman “Synecdoche, New York
Adapted Screenplay:
“The Dark Knight,” Jonthan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Cinematography:
“The Fall,” Colin Watkinson
Original Score:
“The Dark Knight,” James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmerman
Foreign Language Film:
“Let the Right One In” (Sweden)
Documentary Film:
“Man on Wire”
Animated Feature:
“Wall*E”
Breakthrough Artist Award:
Danny McBride, Pineapple Express/The Foot Fist Way/Tropic Thunder
First Film:
Nacho Vigalondo, “Timecrimes”
Austin Film:
“Crawford”
What do you think of the AFCA’s award choices? Who would you give awards to?
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