14th Annual Critic's Choice Awards Nominees and Winners (2009)

The Critics' Choice Awards are bestowed annually by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. Winners were revealed at the 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards ceremony on January 8, 2009 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, broadcast live on VH1 Television Network. Below are the nominees with the winners in red:

BEST PICTURE
Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
The Wrestler
WALL-E

BEST ACTOR
Sean Penn - Milk
Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married (tie)
Meryl Streep - Doubt (tie)
Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
James Franco - Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kate Winslet - The Reader
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Vera Farmiga - Nothing But the Truth
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant - Milk

BEST WRITER (Original or Adapted Screenplay)
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Wall-E
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Waltz With Bashir

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)
Dev Petal - Slumdog Millionaire
Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross - The Reader
Brandon Walters - Australia

BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wanted

BEST COMEDY
Tropic Thunder
Burn After Reading
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
John Adams
Recount
Coco Chanel

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Waltz With Bashir
A Christmas Tale
Gomorrah
I've Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Mongol

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Man On Wire
I.O.U.S.A.
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Standard Operating Procedure
Young At Heart

BEST SONG
"The Wrestler" - Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler
"Another Way to Die" - Jack White and Alicia Keys/Jack White - Quantum of Solace
"Down to Earth" - Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman - Wall-E
"I Thought I Lost You" - Miley Cyrus and John Travolta/Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele - Bolt
"Jaiho" - Sukhwinder Singh/A.R. Rahman and Gulzar - Slumdog Millionaire

BEST COMPOSER
A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire
Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
Danny Elfman - Milk
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight