The 2008 St. Louis Film Critics Awards: The Nominees…

The National Board of Review has posted their idea of what the best was in film the past year, Now it is our turn. The St. Louis Film Critics Assoc. is made up of Radio, TV and Internet critics in the St. Louis market. We get together and in an impromptu meeting nominate 5 films from the past year for each of the following categories: Actor, Actress Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Picture, Screenplay, Score, Animated, Comedy, Documentary, Foreign Language,Most Original- Innovative or Creative Film, Cinematography, Special Effects.

Below are the nominees for the awards in 2008.

Best Picture:Â   Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk), Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon), Richard Jenkins (The Visitor), Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Leonardo Di Caprio (Revolutionary Road).

Best Actress: Kate Winslett (The Reader and Revolutionary Road), Anjolina Jolie (The Changeling), Cate Blanchett (Benjamin Button), Ann Hathaway (Rachel Got Married),

Best Support Actor: Heath Ledger (Dark Knight), Josh Brolin (Milk), Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder), Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), Jeffery Wright (Cadillac Records), John Malcovich (Burn After Reading).

Best Support Actress: Taraji Henson (Benjamin Button), Penelope Cruz (Victoria Christina Barcelona), Marissa Tomei (The Wrestler), Francis McDormand (Burn After Reading), Amy Adams (Doubt), Viola Davis (Doubt).

Best Director: Ron Howard (Frost/Nixon), David Fincher (Benjamin Button), Gus Van Zant (Milk), Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), Chris Nolan (Dark Knight).

Foriegn Language Film: Slumdog Millionaire, Let The Right One in, The Class, I’ve Loved you So Long, Tell No One.

Documentary: Man on a Wire, Body of War, Pray the Devil back to Hell, Shine A Light, Standard Operating Proceedure.

Best Comedy: Zack & Miri Make A Porno, Tropic Thunder, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Burn After Reading, Role Models.

Best Animated Film: Wall-E, KungFuPanda, Madagascar 2, Bolt, Chicago 10, Waltzing  With Bashir.

Most Original/Creative Feature: Benjamin Button, Wall-E, Speed Racer, Waltzing w/ Bashir, Slumdog  Millionaire,   Synecdoche New York.

Best Cinematography: Benjamin Button, Dark Knight, Australia, Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire, Milk.

Best Screenplay: Benjamin Button, Gran Torino, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Milk.

Best Music: Gran Torino, Wall-E, Cadillac Records, The Visitor, The Dark Knight.

Best Special Effects: The Dark Knight, Benjamin Button, Iron Man, Speed Racer, Wall-E, Synecdoche NY.

Let me know what you think…What isn’t on the list  or should be???   Which film deserves to win?   How many will the Dark Knight bring home? Too much love for Benjamin Button?

  Winners will be announced he on the website first thing Monday morning on December 15th. or you can listen to the Smash Morning Show on KLOU 103.3FM that morning and hear them announced live in the 8 o’clock hour.