The 12th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were given on 19 January 2009.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

WALL-E

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Slumdog Millionaire
• The Wrestler

Best Director

Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight

• Darren Aronofsky – The Wrestler
• Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
• David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Andrew Stanton – WALL-E

Best Actor

Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

• Benicio del Toro – Che
• Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
• Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn – Milk

Best Actress

Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy

• Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
• Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
• Meryl Streep – Doubt
• Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actor

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

• Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
• Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
• Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress

Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

• Amy Adams – Doubt
• Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis – Doubt
• Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Original Screenplay

WALL-E – Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon

• In Bruges – Martin McDonagh
• Milk – Dustin Lance Black
• Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
• The Wrestler – Robert D. Siegel

Best Adapted Screenplay

Let the Right One In – John Ajvide Lindqvist

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Eric Roth
• The Dark Knight – Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
• Frost/Nixon – Peter Morgan
• Slumdog Millionaire – Simon Beaufoy

Best Foreign Language Film

Let the Right One In

• A Christmas Tale
• The Counterfeiters
• I've Loved You So Long
• Waltz with Bashir

Best Documentary

Man on Wire

• Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
• Encounters at the End of the World
• I.O.U.S.A.
• My Winnipeg

Best Animated Feature

WALL-E

• Bolt
• Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who
• Kung Fu Panda
• Waltz with Bashir

Best Cinematography

The Dark Knight – Wally Pfister

• Australia – Mandy Walker
• Che – Peter Andrews
• The Fall – Colin Watkinson
• Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle

Best Editing

Slumdog Millionaire – Chris Dickens

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall
• The Dark Knight – Lee Smith
• Milk – Elliot Graham
• WALL-E – Stephen Schaffer

Best Original Score

The Dark Knight – James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Alexandre Desplat
• Milk – Danny Elfman
• Slumdog Millionaire – A. R. Rahman
• WALL-E – Thomas Newman

Breakthrough Filmmaker

Tomas Alfredson – Let the Right One In

• Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
• Kurt Kuenne – Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
• Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
• Steve McQueen – Hunger

Breakthrough Performer

Lina Leandersson – Let the Right One In

• Russell Brand – Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Kåre Hedebrant – Let the Right One In
• Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
• Brandon Walters – Australia