2009
Best Leading Actor
1. Sean Penn, Milk
2. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
3. Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
4. Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
5. Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Biggest Snub: Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Best Leading Actress
1. Kate Winslet, The Reader
2. Meryl Streep, Doubt
3. Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
4. Melissa Leo, Frozen River
5. Angelina Jolie, Changling
Biggest Snub: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actor
1. Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (posthumous)
2. Josh Brolin, Milk
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
4. Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road
5. Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Biggest Snub: Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess
Best Supporting Actress
1. Penelope Cruz, Volver
2. Viola Davis, Doubt
3. Amy Adams, Doubt
4. Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Biggest Snub: Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Best Director
1. Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
2. David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Gus Van Sant, Milk
4. Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
5. Stephen Daldry, The Reader
Biggest Snub: Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married
Best Original Screenplay
1. Dustin Lance Black, Milk
2. Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, & Pete Docter, Wall*E
3. Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
4. Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
5. Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Biggest Snub: Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
2. Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
3. John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
4. Eric Roth & Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. David Hare, The Reader
Biggest Snub: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, & David Goyer, The Dark Knight
Best Picture
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Milk
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Frost/Nixon
5. The Reader
Biggest Snub: The Dark Knight
2008
Best Leading Actor
1. Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
2. George Clooney, Michael Clayton
3. Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
4. Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
5. Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Biggest Snub: Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl and Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Best Leading Actress
1. Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
2. Julie Christie, Away from Her
3. Ellen Page, Juno
4. Laura Linney, The Savages
5. Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Biggest Snub: Keira Knightley, Atonement
Best Supporting Actor
1. Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
2. Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James
3. Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
4. Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
5. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Biggest Snub: Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress
1. Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
2. Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
3. Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
4. Ruby Dee, American Gangster
5. Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Biggest Snub: Catherine Keener, Into the Wild
Best Director
1. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
2. Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. P.T. Anderson, There Will Be Blood
4. Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
5. Jason Reitman, Juno
Biggest Snub: Sean Penn, Into the Wild
Best Original Screenplay
1. Diablo Cody, Juno
2. Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava, & Jim Capobianco, Ratatouille
3. Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
4. Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
5. Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Biggest Snub: Kelly Masterson, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
2. Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3. Christopher Hampton, Atonement
4. P.T. Anderson, There Will Be Blood
5. Sarah Polley, Away From Her
Biggest Snub: Sean Penn, Into the Wild
Best Picture
1. No Country for Old Men
2. Atonement
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Michael Clayton
5. Juno
Biggest Snub: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Into the Wild |