Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

Cinema-Scene Awards

2008


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

 

--The Honorary Awards--

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)
by David L. Blaylock