1. Winners and nominees
    Best Actor  Best Actress  Best Animated Film  Best Cinematography  Best Director  Best Documentary Film  Best Film  Best Foreign Language Film  Best Original Score  Best Screenplay – Adapted  Best Screenplay – Original  Best Supporting Actor  Best Supporting Actress  Most Promising Filmmaker  Most Promising Performer 

2. References

The 21st Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 18, 2008, honored the best in film for 2008. Disney/Pixar's WALL-E became the most successful film in this year's ceremony, won four awards, including Best Film, out of five nominations. Slumdog Millionaire won three awards, while The Dark Knight and Let the Right One In won two awards.

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

• Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn – Milk

Best Actress

• Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
• Angelina Jolie – Changeling
• Melissa Leo – Frozen River
• Meryl Streep – Doubt

Best Animated Film

• Bolt
• Kung Fu Panda
• The Tale of Despereaux
• Waltz with Bashir

Best Cinematography

• Australia – Mandy Walker
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
• The Fall – Colin Watkinson
• Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Director

• David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
• Andrew Stanton – WALL-E
• Gus Van Sant – Milk

Best Documentary Film

• American Teen
• Dear Zachary
• I.O.U.S.A.
• Standard Operating Procedure

Best Film

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Milk
• Slumdog Millionaire

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret), Israel
• Che, France, Spain, & USA
• A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), France
• I've Loved You So Long (Il y a longtemps que je t'aime), France

Best Original Score

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
• The Dark Knight – Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
• Milk – Danny Elfman
• Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman

Best Screenplay – Adapted

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
• The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
• Doubt – John Patrick Shanley
• Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan

Best Screenplay – Original

• In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
• Milk – Dustin Lance Black
• Rachel Getting Married – Jenny Lumet
• Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman

Best Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumously)

• Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Bill Irwin – Rachel Getting Married
• Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams – Doubt
• Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis – Doubt
• Rosemarie DeWitt – Rachel Getting Married

Most Promising Filmmaker

• Lance Hammer – Ballast
• Courtney Hunt – Frozen River
• Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
• Steve McQueen – Hunger

Most Promising Performer

• Russell Brand – Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• David Kross – The Reader
• Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
• Brandon Walters – Australia

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100224070822/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=60

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