Monday, December 15, 2008

Awards Watch: AFI and Satellites 2008

The American Film Institute has named the winners of their 2008 AFI Awards. Their top ten includes two comic book superheroes (The Dark Knight and Iron Man), a robot (WALL-E), a man who ages backwards (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and a professional wrestler (The Wrestler), plus the based-on-fact Frost/Nixon and Milk, indie faves Frozen River and Wendy and Lucy and, of course, Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino).

The AFI "Almanac Honors" will be presented to the creative ensembles for each of this year's recipients in a special luncheon in Los Angeles on January 9.


In other award news from over the weekend, the 13th Annual Satellite Awards were handed out last night. The Best Picture winners were Slumdog Millionaire (Drama) and Happy-Go-Lucky (Comedy or Musical), with these two films also winning, respectively Best Director (Danny Boyle) and Best Actress (Sally Hawkins). Other acting award honors went to The Visitor's Richard Jenkins, Changeling's Angelina Jolie, Ghost Town's Ricky Gervais, Revolutionary Road's Michael Shannon and Rachel Getting Married's Rosemarie DeWitt (thereby ending Penélope Cruz's winning streak).

See the comments section below for a quick look at the Satellite winners.

UPDATE: Here's a video salute to this year's AFI Award winners.

1 comment:

Kirby Holt said...

Outstanding Motion Picture - Drama:
Slumdog Millionaire

Outstanding Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical:
Happy-Go-Lucky

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama:
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical:
Ricky Gervais in Ghost Town

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama:
Angelina Jolie in Changeling

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical:
Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky

Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role:
Michael Shannon in Revolutionary Road

Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role:
Rosemarie DeWitt in Rachel Getting Married

Outstanding Director:
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire

Best Screenplay - Original:
The Visitor

Best Screenplay - Adapted:
Frost/Nixon

Outstanding Cinematography:
Australia

Outstanding Art Direction & Production Design:
Australia

Outstanding Costume Design:
The Duchess

Outstanding Original Score:
Slumdog Millionaire

Outstanding Original Song:
"Another Way to Die" from Quantum of Solace

Outstanding Film Editing:
Iron Man

Outstanding Sound (Mixing & Editing):
The Dark Knight

Outstanding Visual Effects:
Australia

Outstanding Motion Picture - Animated or Mixed Media:
WALL-E

Outstanding Motion Picture - Foreign Film:
Gomorrah

Outstanding Motion Picture - Documentary (tie):
Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer / Man on Wire

Auteur Award:
Baz Luhrmann for Australia

Top Ten Films of 2008 (listed alphabetically):
Ballast
Changeling
Doubt
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Frozen River
Milk
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire