Boston Society of Film Critics Award Winners

Best Picture

Tie: Slumdog Millionaire and WALL-E

Best Actor

Tie: Sean Penn for Milk and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler

Best Actress

Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky

Best Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress

Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Director

Gus Van Sant for Milk and Paranoid Park

Best Screenplay

Dustin Lance Black for Milk

Best Cinematography

Christopher Doyle and Rain Kathy Li¹ for Paranoid Park

Best Documentary

Man on Wire

Best Foreign-Language Film

Let the Right One In

Best Animated Film

WALL·E

Best Film Editing

Chris Dickens for Slumdog Millionaire

Best New Filmmaker

Martin McDonagh for In Bruges

Best Ensemble Cast

Tropic Thunder

Who got a boost?:

• Sally Hawkins. As of this point, she actually has the most Best Actress awards out of any contender.
• Cruz and Ledger in the supporting categories. A few more awards, and they might become virtual locks.
• In Bruges
• Tropic Thunder. Talk about a slap in the face to traditional Oscar fare to name a comedy as having the Best Ensemble Cast. The folks who worked on Doubt must be furious.
• Slumdog Millionaire AND WALL-E for Best Picture.
• Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke for Best Actor. They've become co-front-runners.
  
• Gus Van Sant for Best Director. The Globe snub was a major roadblock, but apparently he's not out of the race yet.
• Let the Right One In for Foreign Language Film
• Man on Wire for Best Documentary
  

Who Got Snubbed?:

• Revolutionary Road: all categories
• Doubt: all categories
• Australia: all categories (the fact that it has yet to win a cinematography award astounds me)
• Gran Torino: all categories
• The Reader: all categories
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: all categories
• Waltz With Bashir for Best Documentary
• Changeling: all categories