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

Danny Boyle, Best Director winner

Sean Penn, Best Actor winner

Sally Hawkins, Best Actress winner

Heath Ledger, Best Supporting Actor winner

Penélope Cruz, Best Supporting Actress winner

Mike Leigh, Best Screenplay winner

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

^ Chang, Justin (9 December 2008). "L.A. critics wired for 'Wall-E'". Variety. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
^ Billington, Alex (9 December 2008). "Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for 2008". FirstShowing.net. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

External links

34th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

[1] Chang, Justin (9 December 2008). "L.A. critics wired for 'Wall-E'". Variety. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

[Los_Angeles_Film_Critics_Association_Awards_for_2008-2] Billington, Alex (9 December 2008). "Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for 2008". FirstShowing.net. Retrieved 28 December 2017.

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