Critics Choice Awards Nominees

BEST PICTURE
Nominees:• Changeling• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• The Dark Knight• Doubt• Frost/Nixon• Milk• The Reader• Slumdog Millionaire• Wall-E• The Wrestler

BEST ACTOR
Nominees:• Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino• Richard Jenkins - The Visitor• Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon• Sean Penn - Milk• Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Nominees:• Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth• Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married• Angelina Jolie - Changeling• Melissa Leo - Frozen River• Meryl Streep - Doubt

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Nominees:• Josh Brolin - Milk• Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt• Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight• James Franco - Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Nominees:• Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona• Viola Davis - Doubt • Vera Farmiga - Nothing But the Truth• Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler• Kate Winslet - The Reader

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Nominees:• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• The Dark Knight• Doubt• Milk• Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR
Nominees:• Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire• David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon• Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight• Gus Van Sant - Milk

BEST WRITER (Original or Adapted Screenplay)
Nominees:• Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire• Dustin Lance Black - Milk• Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon• Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Nominees:• Bolt• Kung Fu Panda• Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa• Wall-E• Waltz With Bashir

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)
Nominees:• Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees• David Kross - The Reader• Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire• Brandon Walters - Australia

BEST ACTION MOVIE
Nominees:• The Dark Knight• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull• Iron Man• Quantum of Solace• Wanted

BEST COMEDY MOVIE
Nominees:• Burn After Reading• Forgetting Sarah Marshall• Role Models• Tropic Thunder• Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Nominees:• John Adams • Recount• Coco Chanel

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Nominees:• A Christmas Tale• Gomorrah• I’ve Loved You So Long• Let the Right One In• Mongol• Waltz With Bashir

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Nominees:• I.O.U.S.A.• Man On Wire• Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired• Standard Operating Procedure• Young At Heart

BEST SONG
Nominees:• "Another Way to Die" (performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, written by Jack White) - Quantum of Solace• "Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel, written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman) - Wall-E• "I Thought I Lost You" (performed Miley Cyrus and John Travolta, written by Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele) - Bolt• "Jaiho" (performed by Sukhwinder Singh, written by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar) - Slumdog Millionaire• "The Wrestler" (performed by Bruce Springsteen, written by Bruce Springsteen) - The Wrestler

BEST COMPOSER
Nominees:• Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button• Clint Eastwood - Changeling• Danny Elfman - Milk• Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight• A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
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