The Boston Society of Film Critics awarded top honours to Wall-E and Slumdog Millionaire in a vote for the Best Movies of the Year. This is the second big win for Wall-E coming from a critics’ association. The film already won the Best Picture Award from the Los Angeles Critics Association earlier this month.
Similarly, there were two actors to win Best Actor of the Year honours: Sean Penn for Milk and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler.
Here is the complete list of winners:
BEST FILM
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
BEST DIRECTOR
Gus Van Sant, Milk, Paranoid Park
BEST SCREENPLAY
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
BEST ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
BEST ACTOR
Sean Penn, Milk
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
Tropic Thunder
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Let the Right One in
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Man on Wire
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Wall-E
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy, Paranoid Park
BEST FILM EDITING
Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire
BEST NEW FILMMAKER
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
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