MAIN Art & ... Pop Culture 2009 Critics Choice Awards

Sure, everybody's a critic.

The opinons that pull the most weight, however, are from the 200 film critics that make up the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the largest film critics organization in the U.S. and Canada.

This year, nominees for best picks in moving acting and directing were announced on December 9, 2008. In the recent past, the awards ceremony was taped for later viewing, but in 2009 viewers are able to watch the live presentation airing on Thursday evening at 9PM ET, January 8, 2009 on VH1 from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

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Check out the rest of the Web for more facts & information, gossip, red carpet pictures of the stars plus photo galleries dedicated to the Critics' Choice Awards, the first in a long line of show biz accolades that kick off this year's awards season...

Broadcast Film Critics Association - The official site of the Critics Choice Awards featuring complete coverage, lists of nominees and winners, current movie ratings, pictures of red carpet arrivals, association news and background information.

10 Years of Critics' Choice Awards - Archived feature story marking the award's anniversary with photos covering the best highlights, quotable quotes and memorable moments.

The Envelope.com - Critics' Choice Awards - Feature stories, photo gallery and related awards content, forum.

2009 Critics Choice Awards Nominees & * Winners

BEST PICTURE
* Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
The Wrestler
WALL-E

BEST ACTOR
* Sean Penn - Milk
Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS - TIE
* Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
* Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
* Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
James Franco - Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
* Kate Winslet - The Reader
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Vera Farmiga - Nothing But the Truth
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
* Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR
* Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant - Milk

BEST WRITER (Original or Adapted Screenplay)
* Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
* Wall-E
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Waltz With Bashir

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)
* Dev Petal - Slumdog Millionaire
Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross - The Reader
Brandon Walters - Australia

BEST ACTION MOVIE
* The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wanted

BEST COMEDY
* Tropic Thunder
Burn After Reading
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
* John Adams
Recount
Coco Chanel

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
* Waltz With Bashir
A Christmas Tale
Gomorrah
I've Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Mongol

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
* Man On Wire
I.O.U.S.A.
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Standard Operating Procedure
Young At Heart

BEST SONG
* "The Wrestler" - Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler
"Another Way to Die" - Jack White and Alicia Keys/Jack White - Quantum of Solace
"Down to Earth" - Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman - Wall-E
"I Thought I Lost You" - Miley Cyrus and John Travolta/Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele - Bolt
"Jaiho" - Sukhwinder Singh/A.R. Rahman and Gulzar - Slumdog Millionaire

BEST COMPOSER
* A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
Danny Elfman - Milk
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight

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