And a quick look at the other categories.
Best Original Screenplay:
1. Milk
2. WALL-E
3. Happy-Go-Lucky
4. In Bruges
5. Frozen River
Best Adapted Screenplay:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Reader
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Frost/Nixon
5. Doubt
Best Animated Feature:
1. WALL-E
2. Kung-Fu Panda
3. Bolt
Best Documentary Feature:
1. Man on Wire
2. Trouble the Water
3. The Betrayal – Nerakoon
4. Encounters at the End of the World
5. The Garden
Best Foreign Language Film:
1. The Class, France
2. Revanche, Austria
3. Waltz With Bashir, Israel
4. The Baader-Meinhof Complex, Germany
5. Departures, Japan
Best Art Direction:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Duchess
4. Revolutionary Road
5. Changeling
Best Cinematography:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Reader
5. Changeling
Best Costume Design:
1. The Duchess
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Australia
4. Revolutionary Road
5. Milk
Best Film Editing:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Frost/Nixon
5. Milk
Best Makeup:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. The Dark Knight
3. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Best Original Score:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. WALL-E
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Milk
5. Defiance
Best Original Song:
1. “Jai Ho,” Slumdog Millionaire
2. “Down to Earth,” WALL-E
3. “O Saya,” Slumdog Millionaire
Best Sound Mixing:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. The Dark Knight
3. WALL-E
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Wanted
Best Sound Editing:
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. WALL-E
3. The Dark Knight
4. Iron Man
5. Wanted
Best Visual Effects:
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. The Dark Knight
3. Iron Man
Best Animated Short Film:
1. La Maison En Petits Cubes
2. Presto
3. This Way Up
4. Oktapodi
5. Lavatory Lovestory
Best Documentary, Short Subject:
1. The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306
2. The Conscience of Nhem En
3. Smile Pinki
4. The Final Inch
Best Live Action Film:
1. Toyland
2. Manon on the Asphalt
3. On the Line
4. The Pig
5. New Boy
–Editorial Note: I’d like to thank the redoubtable Big Ted for his columns this season.