Cinematical

The Critics Choice Awards, given out by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, have successfully picked the Best Picture Oscar winner seven out of the last ten years (they went for Saving Private Ryan instead of Shakespeare in Love; Sideways instead of Million Dollar Baby and Brokeback Mountain instead of Crash). So things are looking better and better for Slumdog Millionaire, which all but swept the awards last night, taking Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Young Actor, and Best Composer.

Heath Ledger won Best Supporting Actor, and The Dark Knight won "Best Action Movie," a nonsense new category invented for the sole purpose of giving The Dark Knight an award. Sean Penn won for Milk, surprising no one. Anne Hathaway for best actress (tying with Meryl Streep) and Kate Winslet for Best Supporting Actress were less foregone conclusions.

Mildly off-topic, John Adams won the award for best TV Movie; Generation Kill, which remains my favorite film of any sort in 2008, wasn't even nominated, which is absurd.

The full list of winners is after the jump.
Best Picture:
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actor:
Sean Penn, Milk

Best Actress - Tie:
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married and Meryl Streep, Doubt

Best Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress:
Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Acting Ensemble:
Milk

Best Director:
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Writer (Original or Adapted Screenplay):
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Feature:
Wall-E

Best Young Actor/Actress:
Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Action Movie:
The Dark Knight

Best Comedy:
Tropic Thunder

Best Picture Made for Television:
John Adams

Best Foreign Language Film:
Waltz with Bashir

Best Documentary Feature:
Man On Wire

Best Song (performer/writer, film):
"The Wrestler" – Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen, The Wrestler

Best Composer:
A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire

Joel Siegel Award:
Richard Gere