29th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

Winners

• Best Film :
• *Slumdog Millionaire
• *WALL-E
• *Runner-up: Milk
• Best Actor :
• *Sean Penn – Milk
• *Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
• *Runner-up : Richard Jenkins – The Visitor and Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Best Actress:
• *Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
• *Runner-up: Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
• Best Supporting Actor:
• *Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
• *Runner-up: Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Best Supporting Actress:
• *Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• *Runner-up: Viola Davis – Doubt
• Best Director:
• *Gus Van Sant – Milk and Paranoid Park
• Best Screenplay:
• *Dustin Lance Black – Milk
• *Runner-up: Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
• Best Cinematography:
• *Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li – Paranoid Park
• *Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
• Best Documentary:
• *Man on Wire
• *Runner-up: Young @ Heart
• Best Foreign-Language Film:
• *Let the Right One In • Sweden
• *Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir • Israel
• Best Animated Film:
• *WALL-E
• *Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir
• Best Editing:
• *Chris Dickens – Slumdog Millionaire
• Best New Filmmaker:
• *Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
• Best Ensemble Cast:
• *Tropic Thunder
• *Runner-up: ''The Visitor''