The Boston Society of Film Critics has made its picks for the top films of 2008, casting Disney/Pixar’s WALL’E and Fox Searchlight’s Slumdog Millionaire in a tie for Best Picture. The latest animated tour de force from Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo), WALL’E was also named Best Animated Feature by the organization of reviewers from Beantown publications and media outlets.
WALL’E has already been voted Best Picture of the Year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Best Animated Feature by the New York Film Critics Circle. It was also nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature last week, along with DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda and Disney’s Bolt.
The late Heath Ledger has earned another Best Supporting Actor award for his work in Warner Bros.’ Batman thriller The Dark Knight. His Joker performance helped the pic gross nearly a billon dollars at the box office worldwide, and is likely to garner an Oscar nomination next month. The movie itself is sure to rack up multiple Academy Award nods, perhaps even for Best Picture.
2008 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards Winners:
Best Picture
Tie: Slumdog Millionaire and WALL’E
Best Actor
Tie: Sean Penn for Milk and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Best Actress
Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress
Pen’lope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Director
Gus Van Sant for Milk and Paranoid Park
Best Screenplay
Dustin Lance Black for Milk
Best Cinematography
Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li for Paranoid Park
Best Documentary
Man on Wire
Best Foreign-Language Film
Let the Right One In
Best Animated Film
WALL’E
Best Film Editing
Chris Dickens for Slumdog Millionaire
Best New Filmmaker
Martin McDonagh for In Bruges
Best Ensemble Cast
Tropic Thunder
