International Press Academy
Best Picture (Comedy/Musical)
Choke
Happy-Go-Lucky
In Bruges
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Tropic Thunder
Vicky Christina Barcelona

Best Director
Danny Boyle "Slumdog Millionaire"
Stephen Daldry "The Reader"
Ron Howard "Frost / Nixon"
Thomas McCarthy "The Visitor"
Christopher Nolan "The Dark Knight"
Gus Van Sant "Milk"

Best Actor (Musical/Comedy)
Josh Brolin "W."
Michael Cera "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"
Ricky Gervais "Ghost Town"
Brendan Gleeson "In Bruges"
Sam Rockwell "Choke"
Mark Ruffalo "The Brothers Bloom"

Best Actress (Musical/Comedy)
Catherine Deneuve "A Christmas Tale"
Kat Dennings "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"
Sally Hawkins "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Lisa Kudrow "Kabluey"
Debra Messing "Nothing Like the Holidays"
Meryl Streep "Mamma Mia!"

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz "Elegy"
Rosemarie Dewitt "Rachel Getting Married"
Anjelica Huston "Choke"
Beyonce Knowles "Cadillac Records"
Sophie Okonedo "The Secret Life of Bees"
Emma Thompson "Brideshead Revisited"

Best Adapted Screenplay
Doubt
Frost / Nixon
The Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire


Best Film Editing
Australia
The Dark Knight
Frost / Nixon
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Costume Design
Australia
Brideshead Revisited
City of Ember
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Sex and the City

Best Visual Effects
Australia
The Dark Knight
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace


Best Original Song
"Another Way to Die" -- Quantum of Solace
"By the Boab Tree" -- Australia
"Down to Earth" -- Wall-E
"If the World" -- Body of Lies
"Jaiho" -- Slumdog Millionaire
"The Wrestler" -- The Wrestler

Best Documentary
Anita O'Day -- The Life of a Jazz Singer (tie)
Encounters at the End of the World
Man on Wire (tie)
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Religulous
Waltz With Bashir
Best Picture (Drama)
Frost / Nixon
Frozen River
Milk
The Reader
Revoluionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Picture (Animated or Mixed)
Bolt
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears A Who!
The Sky Crawlers
The Tale of Despereaux
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir

Best Actor (Drama)
Leonardo DiCaprio "Revolutionary Road"
Richard Jenkins "The Visitor"
Frank Langella "Frost / Nixon"
Sean Penn "Milk"
Mickey Rourke "The Wrestler"
Mark Ruffalo "What Doesn't Kill You"

Best Actress (Drama)
Anne Hathaway "Rachel Getting Married"
Angelina Jolie "Changeling"
Melissa Leo "Frozen River"
Meryl Streep "Doubt"
Kristin Scott Thomas "I've Loved You So Long"
Kate Winslet "The Reader"

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Downey, Jr. "Tropic Thunder"
James Franco "Milk"
Philip Seymour Hoffman "Doubt"
Heath Ledger "The Dark Knight"
Michael Shannon "Revolutionary Road"
Rade Sherbedgia "Fugitive Pieces"

Best Original Screenplay
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Elegy
Frozen River
Milk
The Visitor

Best Cinematography
Australia
Brideshead Revisited
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Snow Angels

Best Art Direction
Australia
Brideshead Revisited
City of Ember
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Best Sound (mixing & editing)
Australia
The Dark Knight
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wall-E

Best Original Score
Australia
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!
Milk
Quantum of Solace
Slumdog Millionare
Wall-E

Best Foreign Language Film
Caramel (Lebanon / France)
The Class (France)
Gomorrah (Italy)
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Reprise (Norway)
Sangre de mi Sangre (Argentina)
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