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Boston Critics claim ‘Slumdog’ and ‘WALL-E’ as year’s Best

The Boston Society of Film Critics split the vote — Wall-E and Slumdog Millionaire tied for Best Film honors. Curiously, it’s Gus Van Sant’s work in Paranoid Park and Milk that received kudos in some main categories.

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 17, 2008

The Boston Society of Film Critics split the vote — Wall-E and Slumdog Millionaire tied for Best Film honors. Curiously, it’s Gus Van Sant’s work in Paranoid Park and Milk that received kudos in some main categories.

See the complete list of winners below:…

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 Li 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

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).