14th Critics' Choice Awards explained

Number:	14
Award:	Critics' Choice Awards
Date:	January 8, 2009
Best Film:	Slumdog Millionaire
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The 14th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 8, 2009, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, honoring the finest achievements of 2008 filmmaking. The nominees were announced on December 9, 2008.

Winners and nominees

Slumdog Millionaire Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader WALL-E The Wrestler	Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Gus Van Sant – Milk Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk as Harvey Milk Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Benjamin Button Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino as Walt Kowalski Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon as Richard Nixon Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler as Robin Ramzinski/Randy Robinson Richard Jenkins – The Visitor as Walter Vale	Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married as Kym Buchman (Tie) Meryl Streep – Doubt as Aloysius Beauvier (Tie) Angelina Jolie – Changeling as Christine Collins Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Daisy Fuller Kate Beckinsale – Nothing but the Truth as Rachel Armstrong Melissa Leo – Frozen River as Ray Eddy
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight as Joker James Franco – Milk as Scott Smith Josh Brolin – Milk as Dan White Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt as Brendan Flynn Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder as Kirk Lazarus	Kate Winslet – The Reader as Hanna Schmitz Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler as Pam/Cassidy Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Maria Elena Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Queenie Vera Farmiga – Nothing but the Truth as Erica Van Doren Viola Davis – Doubt as Miller
Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire as Jamal Malik Brandon Walters – Australia as Nullah Dakota Fanning – The Secret Life of Bees as Lily Owens David Kross – The Reader as Michael Berg	Milk The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Rachel Getting Married
Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth Doubt – John Patrick Shanley Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan Milk – Dustin Lance Black	Waltz with Bashir • Israel A Christmas Tale • France Gomorrah • Italy I've Loved You So Long • France Let the Right One In • Sweden Mongol • Kazakhstan
WALL-E Bolt Kung Fu Panda Waltz with Bashir Space Chimps	Man on Wire (Tie) (Tie) I.O.U.S.A. Standard Operating Procedure Young@Heart
The Dark Knight Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Iron Man Quantum of Solace Wanted The Incredible Hulk	Tropic Thunder Burn After Reading Forgetting Sarah Marshall Role Models Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman Changeling – Clint Eastwood The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat The Dark Knight – Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard Milk – Danny Elfman	"The Wrestler" – The Wrestler "Another Way to Die" – Quantum of Solace "Down to Earth" – WALL-E "I Thought I Lost You" – Bolt "Jai Ho" – Slumdog Millionaire

Best Picture Made for Television

John Adams

• Coco Chanel
• Recount

Joel Siegel Award

Richard Gere ^[1]

Statistics

Nominations	Film
8	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	Milk
6	The Dark Knight
	Doubt
	Slumdog Millionaire
4	Frost/Nixon
	The Wrestler
3	Changeling
	The Reader
	WALL-E
2	Bolt
	Nothing but the Truth
	Quantum of Solace
	Rachel Getting Married
	Tropic Thunder
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona
	Waltz with Bashir

Wins	Film
5	Slumdog Millionaire
2	The Dark Knight
	Milk

External links

• Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Winners (Archive) for 14th-19th Awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: Richard Gere to Receive Joel Siegel Award Presented by Diane Lane at VH1's 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Ceremony . January 6, 2009 . . August 19, 2015.