The 4th Austin Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking for 2008, were announced on December 16, 2008.^[1][2]

Top 10 Films

1. The Dark Knight
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Milk
4. Synecdoche, New York
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. The Wrestler
7. WALL-E
8. Frost/Nixon
9. Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
10. Gran Torino

Winners

• Best Film:
  • The Dark Knight
• Best Director:
  • Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
• Best Actor:
  • Sean Penn – Milk
• Best Actress:
  • Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Best Original Screenplay:
  • Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
• Best Adapted Screenplay:
  • The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan
• Best Cinematography:
  • The Fall – Colin Watkinson
• Best Original Score:
  • The Dark Knight – James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) • Sweden
• Best Documentary:
  • Man on Wire
• Best Animated Feature:
  • WALL-E
• Best First Film:
  • Nacho Vigalondo – Timecrimes (Los cronocrímenes)
• Breakthrough Artist Award:
  • Danny McBride – The Foot Fist Way, Pineapple Express, and Tropic Thunder
• Austin Film Award:
  • Crawford – David Modigliani

References

External links

• IMDb page
• Official website