The 29th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were given on December 14, 2008.
Winners
- Best Film (TIE):
- Slumdog Millionaire
- WALL-E
- Runner-up: Milk
- Best Actor (TIE):
- Sean Penn – Milk
- Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
- Runner-up (TIE): Richard Jenkins – The Visitor and Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
- Best Actress:
- Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Runner-up: Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
- Best Supporting Actor:
- Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
- Runner-up: Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
- Best Supporting Actress:
- Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
- Runner-up: Viola Davis – Doubt
- Best Director:
- Gus Van Sant – Milk and Paranoid Park
- Best Screenplay:
- Dustin Lance Black – Milk
- Runner-up: Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
- Best Cinematography:
- Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li – Paranoid Park
- Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
- Best Documentary:
- Man on Wire
- Runner-up: Young @ Heart
- Best Foreign-Language Film:
- Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
- Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) • Israel
- Best Animated Film:
- WALL-E
- Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
- Best Editing:
- Chris Dickens – Slumdog Millionaire
- Best New Filmmaker:
- Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
- Best Ensemble Cast:
- Tropic Thunder
- Runner-up: The Visitor
External links
- Past Winners
References
- Boston critics hand out honors Variety
- Pair tops Boston critics' list Boston Globe
