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2008 St. Louis Film Critics Awards Winners!
The ballots are in and the results have been counted…….
Arguements and battles have subsided………
And St. Louis has it’s say in what is the best of 2008.
The 2008 St. Louis Film Critics Award winners are:
 BEST PICTURE:   The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
BEST ACTOR:Â Â Â Â Â Â Sean Penn (Milk)
 BEST ACTRESS:   Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road)
 BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:  Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
 BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Viola Davis (Doubt)
BEST DIRECTOR:Â Â Â Â Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:Â Slumdog Millionaire – U.K./U.S.A/India
BEST DOCUMENTARY:Â Man On Wire
BEST COMEDY:Â Â Burn After Reading
BEST ANIMATED FILM:Â Â Wall-E
MOST ORIGINAL, INNOVATIVE OR CREATIVE FILM:Â The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:Â Mandy Walker (Australia)
BEST SCREENPLAY (ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED):Â Â Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon)
BEST MUSIC (SOUNDTRACK OR SCORE, ORIGINAL OR ADAPTED):Â The Visitor
BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS:Â The Dark Knight
The big winners The Dark Knight, Slumdog Millionaire and front runner for an Oscar this year ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’.  Do you agree??? There was much debate over several catagories including Foreign Film, and Music. No love for ‘The Wrestler’ or ‘Gran Torino’. Let me know how you would have voted. Â
Slumdog Millionaire isn’t even eligible in the Best Foreign Language category according to AMPAS. Every other critics assoc. has it placed under Best Picture – nevermind that the St Louis Film Critics Assoc. is the laughing stock all over the web now. Its a great movie – the best of the year – and has a magnificient payoff at the end. Too bad they put it in the wrong category.
To add to what Michelle said. Slumdog Millionaire is winning best overall picture in other critics awards. This leaves other movies that were not as well advertised to win best foreign film. Take for instance Let The Right One In. This is my favorite movie of the year. Maybe many years. I am so stuck on it. I havent seen Slumdog Millionaire but if its as good as LTROI then these are happy times for me. Cinema wise.
Does it break your heart to know that Sweden did NOT submit ‘Let The Right One In’ for Oscar consideration?
It breaks mine.
And as far as “Most original, innovative and creative” movies… The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button? Really? Didn’t anyone see ‘Waltz with Bashir’? No? oh…
Best special effects goes to ‘The Dark Knight’? I’m sorry, maybe that’s where you meant to put ‘Benjamin Button,’ a film that is hands down the superior as far as FX — both visual and in make-up. I’d give ‘Dark Knight’ a nod for sound effects, for sure, but ‘Benjamin Button’ exhausts my mind when I think of all the work that went into making that world work.
Well, everyone has an opinion, right?
It doesnt break my heart because I am heartened by how it is winning so many other film critics awards. San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Wash D.C., Toronto, Phoenix, South East awards, Satelite awards. Maybe more. Thats got to be doing something to the legitimacy of the Golden Globes and the Oscars.