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Critics' Circle, The - 2008 London Film Critics' Circle Awards

Critics' Circle, The (CC)
London Film Critics' Circle Awards (29th)
Nominations: December 18, 2008
Awards: February 4, 2009

Below are the nominations & winners for the 29th Annual London Film Critics' Circle Awards.

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Best Picture
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) A Kennedy/Marshall Production
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production
"Milk" (Focus Features) A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios
WINNER "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight) Protozoa Pictures, Wild Bunch, Darren Aronofsky

Best British Film
"Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax)
"Hunger" (IFC Films)
"In Bruges" (Focus Features)
"Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures)
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Danny Boyle

Best Foreign Film
"Gomorrah" (IFC Films, 01 Distribuzione) Italy
"I've Loved You So Long" (Sony Pictures Classics) UGC YM, Integral Film, France, Germany
"The Orphanage (El Orfanato)" (Picturehouse) Mexico, Spain
"Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics) 2.4.7. Films, France
WINNER "Waltz With Bashir" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films D'Ici, Razor Films, Arte France, ITVS International Production, Artificial Eye, Israel/Germany/France/USA/Finland/Switzerland/Belgium/Australia

Best Director
"The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight) Darren Aronofsky
"Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Danny Boyle
"Changeling" (Universal) Clint Eastwood
WINNER "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Fincher
"Milk" (Focus Features) Gus Van Sant

Best British Director
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Danny Boyle
"Of Time and the City" (Strand Releasing) Terence Davies
"Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax) Mike Leigh
"Hunger" (IFC Films) Steve McQueen
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Christopher Nolan

Best Actor
Josh Brolin in "W." (Lionsgate Films)
Frank Langella in "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.)
Sean Penn in "Milk" (Focus Features)
WINNER Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight)

Best Actress
Penelope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company, MGM)
Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Angelina Jolie in "Changeling" (Universal)
Meryl Streep in "Doubt" (Miramax)
WINNER Kate Winslet in "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
WINNER Kate Winslet in "Revolutionary Road" (Paramount Vantage)

Best British Actor
WINNER Michael Fassbender in "Hunger" (IFC Films)
Ralph Fiennes in "The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage)
Ben Kingsley in "Elegy" (MGM, Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Dev Patel in "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent)
Michael Sheen in "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)

Best British Actress
Rebecca Hall in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company, MGM)
Sally Hawkins in "Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax)
WINNER Kristin Scott Thomas in "I've Loved You So Long" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Tilda Swinton in "Julia" (Magnolia Pictures)
Kate Winslet in "The Reader" (The Weinstein Company)
Kate WInslet in "Revolutionary Road" (Paramount Vantage)

Best British Supporting Actor
Liam Cunningham in "Hunger" (IFC Films)
Toby Jones in "Frost/Nixon" (Universal)
Toby Jones in "W." (Lionsgate Films)
WINNER Eddie Marsan in "Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax)
Peter O'Toole in "Dean Spanley"
Mark Strong in "Body of Lies" (Warner Bros.)

Best British Supporting Actress
Hayley Atwell in "The Duchess" (Paramount Vantage)
Kristin Scott Thomas in "Easy Virtue" (Pathe Distribution Ltd., Sony Pictures Classics)
WINNER Tilda Swinton in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
Emma Thompson in "Brideshead Revisited" (Concorde Filmverleih, Miramax Films)
Alexis Zegerman in "Happy-Go-Lucky" (Miramax)

Best Young British Performer
Asa Butterfield in "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" (Miramax)
Georgia Groome in "Angus, Thongs"
Georgia Groome in "Perfect Snogging"
Bill Milner in "Son of Rambow" (Paramount Vantage)
Dev Patel in "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent)
Will Poulter in "Son of Rambow" (Paramount Vantage)
Thomas Turgoose in "Somers Town"
Thomas Turgoose in "Eden Lake" (Third Rail, Optimum Releasing)

Best Screenwriter
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Simon Beaufoy
"The Reader" (The Weinstein Company) David Hare
"In Bruges" (Focus Features) Martin McDonagh
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) Peter Morgan
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Eric Roth

Breakthrough British Film-maker
"Unrelated" Joanna Hogg (writer/director)
"In Bruges" (Focus Features) Martin McDonagh (writer/director)
WINNER "Hunger" (IFC Films) Steve McQueen (writer/director)
"Eden Lake" (Third Rail, Optimum Releasing) James Watkins (writer/director)
"The Escapist" (Vertigo Films, IFC Films) Rupert Wyatt (director)

The Dilys Powell Award
WINNER Dame Judi Dench

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