2008: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Rachel Getting Married (dir: Jonathan Demme)

2. My Winnipeg (dir: Guy Maddin; US release date)

3. Viva (dir: Anna Biller; US release date)

4. The Strangers (dir: Bryan Bertino)

5. Wendy and Lucy (dir: Kelly Reichardt)

6. Hunger (dir: Steve McQueen)

7. Let the Right One In (dir: Tomas Alfredson)

8. Man on Wire (dir: James Marsh)

9. Happy-Go-Lucky (dir: Mike Leigh)

10. A Christmas Tale (dir: Arnaud Desplechin)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Burn After Reading (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen), Che (dir: Steven Soderbergh), The Dark Knight (dir: Christopher Nolan), Elegy (dir: Isabel Coixet), In Bruges (dir: Martin McDonagh), Milk (dir: Gus Van Sant), Revolutionary Road (dir: Sam Mendes), Step Brothers (dir: Adam McKay), Stuck (dir: Stuart Gordon), Synecdoche, New York (dir: Charlie Kaufman), WALL-E (dir: Andrew Stanton), and Waltz with Bashir (dir: Ari Folman)

Best Film of the Year: Rachel Getting Married
Director: Jonathan Demme Producers: Neda Armian, Jonathan Demme, Marc Platt
US Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Best Director:
Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
2. Anna Biller, Viva
3. Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg
4. Steve McQueen, Hunger
5. Kelly Reichardt, Wendy and Lucy

Best Actor:
Colin Farrell, In Bruges
2. Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road
3. Sean Penn, Milk
4. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
5. Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon

Best Actress:
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
2. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
3. Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
4. Penelope Cruz, Elegy
5. Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor:
Tom Cruise, Tropic Thunder
2. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
3. Russell Hornsby, Stuck
4. John Malkovich, Burn After Reading
5. Mahershala Ali, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Supporting Actress:
Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2. Viola Davis, Doubt
3. Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
4. Patricia Clarkson, Elegy
5. Anne Consigny, A Christmas Tale

Best Original Screenplay:
My Winnipeg – Guy Maddin and George Toles
2. Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
3. Burn After Reading — Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
4. A Christmas Tale – Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu
5. In Bruges — Martin McDonagh

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Wendy and Lucy – Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond
2. Frost/Nixon — Peter Morgan
3. Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist
4. Revolutionary Road — Justin Haythe
5. Hellboy II: The Golden Army — Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola

Best Cinematography:
Let the Right One In – Hoyte van Hoytema
2. Speed Racer —David Tattersall
3. Hunger – Sean Bobbitt
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Claudio Miranda
5. The Wrestler — Matthew Libatique

Best Original Score:
WALL-E – Thomas Newman
2. A Christmas Tale – Gregiure Hetzel
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
4. Let the Right One In – Johan Söderqvist
5. Slumdog Millionaire – A.R. Rahman

Best Film Editing:
Speed Racer — Roger Barton and Zach Staenberg
2. My Winnipeg – John Gurdebeke
3. The Wrestler — Andrew Weisblum
4. Let the Right One In — Tomas Alfredson and Dino Jonsäter
5. The Strangers – Kevin Greutert

Best Production Design:
Synecdoche, New York ­– Mark Friedberg and Lydia Mark
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo
3. Viva — Anna Biller
4. Hellboy II: The Golden Army – Stephen Scott, Elli Griff and Zsuzsa Mihalek
5. My Winnipeg – Rejean Labrie, Chad Giesbrecht, John Jnnissen, Alexis Labra and Bill MacInnis

Best Costume Design:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Jacqueline West
2. Australia — Catherine Martin
3. Changeling — Deborah Hopper
4. Viva — Anna Biller
5. Speed Racer — Kym Barrett

Best Visual Effects
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Speed Racer
3. Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best Sound
Speed Racer
2. WALL-E
3. My Winnipeg

Best Makeup
Synecdoche, New York
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. The Dark Knight

Best Documentary Feature:
James Marsh, Man on Wire

Best Animated Feature:
Ari Folman, Waltz with Bashir

Best Limited Series:
Tom Hooper, Kirk Ellis, David Coatsworth and Steve Shareshian, John Adams

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Step Brothers

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Anna Biller, Viva

Best Ensemble Cast: (dir: Adam McKay; in alphabetical order): Will Ferrell (pictured), Kathryn Hahn, Richard Jenkins (pictured), Lurie Postin, John C. Reilly (pictured), Andrea Savage, Adam Scott, Mary Steenburgen and Elizabeth Yozamp

Best First Feature: Anna Biller and Jared Sanford (pictured, right) in Anna Biller's Viva

RECAP

W I N S :

Rachel Getting Married — 3
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — 2, Speed Racer — 2, Synecdoche, New York — 2, In Bruges — 1, John Adams — 1, Let the Right One In — 1, Man on a Wire — 1, My Winnipeg — 1, Speed Racer — 1, Step Brothers — 1, Tropic Thunder — 1, Vicky Cristina Barcelona — 1, Viva — 1, WALL-E — 1, Waltz with Bashir — 1, Wendy and Lucy — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — 7,
My Winnipeg — 5, Viva — 5, A Christmas Tale — 4, Let the Right One In — 4, Rachel Getting Married — 4, Synecdoche, New York — 4, Wendy and Lucy — 4, Hellboy II — 3, Revolutionary Road — 3, Speed Racer — 3, The Wrestler — 3, Burn After Reading — 2, The Dark Knight — 2, Elegy — 2, Frost/Nixon — 2, Happy-Go-Lucky — 2, In Bruges — 2, Man on Wire — 2, The Strangers — 2, WALL-E — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s