2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

34th LAFCA Awards
34th LAFCA Awards
Date	December 9, 2008
Highlights
Best Picture	WALL-E

The 34th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2008. Pixar's animated film WALL-E won the Best Film award and became the first-ever animated film to do so; however, the film lost the Best Animated Film award to Waltz with Bashir.^[1]^[2]

Winners

Best Picture:
- WALL-E
- Runner-up: The Dark Knight
Best Director:
- Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
- Runner-up: Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
Best Actor:
- Sean Penn – Milk
- Runner-up: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
Best Actress:
- Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Runner-up: Melissa Leo – Frozen River
Best Supporting Actor:
- Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumously)
- Runner-up: Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actress:
- Penélope Cruz – Elegy and Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Runner-up: Viola Davis – Doubt
Best Screenplay:
- Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
Best Cinematography:
- Yu Lik-wai – Still Life (Sanxia haoren)
- Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Production Design:
- Mark Friedberg – Synecdoche, New York
- Runner-up: Nathan Crowley – The Dark Knight
Best Music Score:
- A. R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire
- Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Foreign-Language Film:
- Still Life (Sanxia haoren) – China/Hong Kong
- Runner-up: The Class (Entre les murs) – France
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
- Man on Wire
- Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)
Best Animation:
- Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)
The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
- James Benning – RR and Casting a Glance
New Generation Award:
- Steve McQueen – Hunger

References

External links

34th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

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