Austin Film Critics Association Awards 2008

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

4th AFCA Awards

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Best Film:
The Dark Knight

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