Best Picture
#1: The Wrestler (dir: Darren Aronofsky)
#2: Hunger (dir: Steve McQueen)
#3: My Winnipeg (dir: Guy Maddin)
#4: Wendy and Lucy (dir: Kelly Reichardt)
#5: WALL●E (dir: Andrew Stanton)
#6: A Christmas Tale (dir: Arnaud Desplechin)
#7: Slumdog Millionaire (dir: Danny Boyle)
#8: Still Life (dir: Jia Zhang-ke)
#9: Let the Right One In (dir: Tomas Alfredson)
#10: Synecdoche, New York (dir: Charlie Kaufman)
Honorable Mentions: Pineapple Express (dir: David Gordon Green), Vicky Cristina Barcelona (dir: Woody Allen), Reprise (dir: Joachim Trier), Silent Light(dir: Carlos Reygadas), Burn After Reading (dir: Joel and Ethan Coen), Tropic Thunder (dir: Ben Stiller), Redbelt (dir: David Mamet), Doubt (dir: John Patrick Shanley), Stop-Loss (dir: Kimberly Pierce), Man on Wire (dir: James Marsh), The Man from London (dir: Béla Tarr), The Flight of the Red Balloon (dir: Hou Hsiao-hsien), Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (dir: Marina Zenovich), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (dir: David Fincher), My Blueberry Nights (dir: Wong Kar-wai), Chicago 10 (dir: Brett Morgan), Revolutionary Road (dir: Sam Mendes), and Frost/Nixon (dir: Ron Howard).
Best Director
#1: Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg)
#2: Steve McQueen (Hunger)
#3: Arnaud Desplechin (A Christmas Story)
#4: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
#5: Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler)
Best Actor
#1: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
#2: Philip Seymour Hoffman(Synecdoche, New York)
#3: Mathieu Amalric (A Christmas Tale)
#4: Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
#5: Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon)
Best Actress
#1: Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy)
#2: Chiara Mastroianni (A Christmas Tale)
#3: Juliette Binoche (The Flight of the Red Balloon)
#4: Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
#5: Cate Blanchett (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Best Supporting Actor
#1: Tom Cruise (Tropic Thunder)
#2: Philip Seymour Hoffman (Doubt)
#3: Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky)
#4: John Malkovich (Burn After Reading)
#5: Ben Kingsley (The Wackness)
Best Supporting Actress
#1: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
#2: Viola Davis (Doubt)
#3: Emmanuelle Devos (A Christmas Tale)
#4: Samantha Morton (Synecdoche, New York)
#5: Ann Savage (My Winnipeg)
Best Original Screenplay
#1: A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin and Emmanuel Bourdieu)
#2: The Wrestler (Robert D. Siegel)
#3: Hunger (Enda Walsh and Steve McQueen)
#4: My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)
#5: WALL●E (Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon)
Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond)
#2: Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy)
#3: Let the Right One In (John Ajvide Lindqvist)
#4: Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
#5: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(Eric Roth)
Best Cinematography
#1: Jody Shapiro (My Winnipeg)
#2: Anthony Dod Mantle (Slumdog Millionaire)
#3: Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
#4: Frederick Elmes (Synecdoche, New York)
#5: Alexis Zabe (Silent Light)
Best Film Editing
#1: My Winnipeg
#2: Slumdog Millionaire
#3: The Wrestler
#4: Reprise
#5: A Christmas Tale
Best Original Score
#1: Slumdog Millionaire (A.R. Rahman)
#2: A Christmas Tale (Grégoire Hetzel)
#3: Synecdoche, New York (Jon Brion)
#4: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Alexandre Desplat)
#5: WALL●E (Thomas Newman)
Best Original Song
#1: “Down to Earth” (WALL●E)
#2: “The Wrestler” (The Wrestler)
#3: “Jaiho” (Slumdog Millionaire)
#4: “Pineapple Express” (Pineapple Express)
#5: “The Story” (My Blueberry Nights)
Best Production Design
#1: Synecdoche, New York
#2: My Winnipeg
#3: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
#4: A Christmas Tale
#5: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Costume Design
#1: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
#2: Synecdoche, New York
#3: The Duchess
#4: The Dark Knight
#5: The Wrestler
Best Makeup
#1: Synecdoche, New York
#2: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
#3: The Wrestler
#4: Hunger
#5: Pineapple Express
Best Sound
#1: WALL●E
#2: My Winnipeg
#3: Slumdog Millionaire
#4: Tropic Thunder
#5: The Dark Knight
Best Visual Effects
#1: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
#2: The Dark Knight
#3: The Incredible Hulk
#4: Chicago 10
#5: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Best Breakthrough Performance – Male
Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
Best Breakthrough Performance – Female
Viola Davis (Doubt)
Best First Feature
Steve McQueen (Hunger)
Worst Film of the Year
Postal (dir: Uwe Boll)