2008 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

• Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk
• *Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• *Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
• *Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
• *Leonardo DiCaprio – ''Revolutionary Road''

Best Actress

• Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road as April Wheeler and The Reader as Hanna Schmidtz
• *Angelina Jolie – Changeling
• *Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• *Anne Hathaway – ''Rachel Getting Married''

Best Animated Film

• WALL-E
• *Kung Fu Panda
• *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
• *Bolt
• *Chicago 10
• *''Waltz With Bashir''

Best cinematography

• Australia – Mandy Walker
• *The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
• *The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister
• *Revolutionary Road – Roger Deakins
• *Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle
• *Milk – Harris Savides

Best Director

• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
• *Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
• *David Fincher – The Curious Case of BenjaminButton
• *Gus Van Sant – Milk
• *Christopher Nolan – ''The Dark Knight''

Best Documentary Film

• Man on Wire
• *Body of War
• *Pray the Devil Back to Hell
• *Shine a Light
• *''Standard Operating Procedure''

Best Film

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• *Milk
• *Slumdog Millionaire
• *The Dark Knight
• *''Frost/Nixon''

Best Film – Comedy

• Burn After Reading
• *Zack and Miri Make a Porno
• *Tropic Thunder
• *Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• *''Role Models''

Best Foreign Language Film

• Slumdog Millionaire • India/UK/United States
• *Let the Right One In • Sweden
• *The Class • France
• *I've Loved You So Long • France
• *Tell No One • France

Best Music

• The Visitor
• *Gran Torino
• *WALL-E
• *Cadillac Records
• *''The Dark Knight''

Best Screenplay

• Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
• *The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth and Robin Swicord
• *Gran Torino – Nick Schenk
• *Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy
• *Milk – Dustin Lance Black

Best Supporting Actor

• Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as The Joker posthumous win
• *Josh Brolin – Milk
• *Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• *Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
• *Jeffrey Wright – Cadillac Records
• *John Malkovich – ''Burn After Reading''

Best Supporting Actress

• Viola Davis – Doubt as Mrs. Miller
• *Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• *Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• *Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
• *Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading
• *Amy Adams – ''Doubt''

Best Visual Effects

• The Dark Knight
• *The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• *Iron Man
• *Speed Racer
• *WALL-E
• *''Synecdoche, New York''

Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• *Wall-E
• *Speed Racer
• *Waltz With Bashir
• *Slumdog Millionaire
• *''Synecdoche, New York''