43rd NSFC Awards

January 3, 2009

Best Film:
Waltz with Bashir

The 43rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2009, honored the best in film for 2008.[1][2][3]

Winners

Mike Leigh, Best Director and Best Screenplay winner
Sean Penn, Best Actor winner
Sally Hawkins, Best Actress winner
Eddie Marsan, Best Supporting Actor winner
Hanna Schygulla, Best Supporting Actress winner

Best Picture

1. Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
2. Happy-Go-Lucky
2. WALL-E

Best Director

1. Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Gus Van Sant – Milk and Paranoid Park
3. Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor

1. Sean Penn – Milk
2. Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
3. Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino

Best Actress

1. Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Melissa Leo – Frozen River
3. Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy

Best Supporting Actor

1. Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
3. Josh Brolin – Milk

Best Supporting Actress

1. Hanna Schygulla – The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite)
2. Viola Davis – Doubt
3. Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Screenplay

1. Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
2. Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu – A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël)
3. Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York

Best Cinematography

1. Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
2. Pin Bing Lee – Flight of the Red Balloon (Le voyage du ballon rouge)
3. Wally Pfister – The Dark Knight
4. Yu Lik-wai – Still Life (Sanxia haoren)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. Man on Wire
2. Trouble the Water
3. Encounters at the End of the World

Best Experimental Film

  • Razzle Dazzle

Film Heritage Awards

  1. The Criterion Collection for finally making Samuel Fuller's suppressed White Dog (1982) available to a wide American audience via DVD release.
  2. The Exiles, Kent Mackenzie's realistic 1961 independent film about Native Americans in Los Angeles. (Restored by Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive and distributed by Milestone).
  3. Flicker Alley for releasing DVD collections of rare early U.S. and foreign silent films.
  4. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment for its DVD set Murnau, Borzage and Fox.

References

  1. ↑ Brooks, Brian (3 January 2009). ""Waltz" and "Lucky" Take National Society of Film Critics Honors". IndieWire. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  2. ↑ King, Susan (4 January 2009). "'Bashir' takes top honors from National Society of Film Critics". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  3. ↑ ""Waltz With Bashir" Sweeps National Society of Film Critics Off Feet". The New York Times. 3 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
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