Awards for 2009

Critics Choice Award

Best Picture

WINNER

Slumdog Millionaire
NOMINEES

The Dark Knight

Changeling

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Doubt

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Reader

WALL·E

The Wrestler

Best Young Actor/Actress (Under 21)

WINNER

Slumdog Millionaire: Dev Patel
NOMINEES

Australia: Brandon Walters

The Reader: David Kross

The Secret Life of Bees: Dakota Fanning

Best Actor

WINNER

Milk: Sean Penn
NOMINEES

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Brad Pitt

Frost/Nixon: Frank Langella

Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood

The Visitor: Richard Jenkins

The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke

Best Actress

WINNERS

Doubt: Meryl Streep
Tied with 'Anne Hathaway (I)' for Rachel Getting Married.

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway
Tied with Meryl Streep for Doubt.
NOMINEES

Changeling: Angelina Jolie

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Cate Blanchett

Frozen River: Melissa Leo

Nothing But the Truth: Kate Beckinsale

Best Supporting Actor

WINNER

The Dark Knight: Heath Ledger
Posthumously.
NOMINEES

Doubt: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Milk: Josh Brolin

Milk: James Franco

Tropic Thunder: Robert Downey Jr.

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER

The Reader: Kate Winslet
NOMINEES

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Taraji P. Henson

Doubt: Viola Davis

Nothing But the Truth: Vera Farmiga

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Penélope Cruz

The Wrestler: Marisa Tomei

Best Director

WINNER

Slumdog Millionaire: Danny Boyle
NOMINEES

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: David Fincher

The Dark Knight: Christopher Nolan

Frost/Nixon: Ron Howard

Milk: Gus Van Sant

Best Song

WINNER

The Wrestler: Bruce Springsteen
For the song "The Wrestler".
NOMINEES

Bolt: Miley Cyrus, Jeffrey Steele, John Travolta
For the song "I Thought I Lost You".

Quantum of Solace: Jack White, Alicia Keys
For the song "Another Way to Die".

Slumdog Millionaire: Sukhwinder Singh, A.R. Rahman, Gulzar
For the song "Jaiho".

WALL·E: Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman
For the song "Down to Earth".

Best Documentary Feature

WINNER

Man on Wire
NOMINEES

I.O.U.S.A.

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Standard Operating Procedure

Young@Heart

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

Waltz with Bashir
NOMINEES

Gomorrah

I've Loved You So Long

Let the Right One In

Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan

A Christmas Tale

Best Acting Ensemble

WINNER

Milk: Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, Stephen Spinella, Denis O'Hare, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna
NOMINEES

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Taraji P. Henson, Elias Koteas, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng

The Dark Knight: Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman

Doubt: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Debra Winger, Anna Deavere Smith, Bill Irwin, Mather Zickel, Anisa George

Best Writer

WINNER

Slumdog Millionaire: Simon Beaufoy
NOMINEES

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Eric Roth

Doubt: John Patrick Shanley

Frost/Nixon: Peter Morgan

Milk: Dustin Lance Black

Best Comedy Movie

WINNER

Tropic Thunder
NOMINEES

Burn After Reading

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Role Models

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Animated Feature

WINNER

WALL·E
NOMINEES

Bolt

Kung Fu Panda

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Waltz with Bashir

Best Action Movie

WINNER

The Dark Knight: Christopher Nolan
NOMINEES

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Iron Man

Quantum of Solace

Wanted

Best Composer

WINNER

Slumdog Millionaire: A.R. Rahman
NOMINEES

Changeling: Clint Eastwood

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Alexandre Desplat

The Dark Knight: Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard

Milk: Danny Elfman

Best Picture Made for Television

WINNER

John Adams
NOMINEES

Coco Chanel

Recount