Top 5 Domestic Films
“The Dark Knight,” Christopher Nolan
“Che,” Steven Soderbergh
“Paranoid Park,” Gus Van Sant
“Rachel Getting Married,” Jonathan Demme
“Ballast,” Lance Hammer
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Foreign Films
“Man on Wire,” James Marsh
“Reprise,” Joachim Trier
“Happy-Go-Lucky,” Mike Leigh
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Danny Boyle
“A Christmas Tale,” Arnaud Desplechin
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Films
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Danny Boyle
“Ballast,” Lance Hammer
“Hunger,” Steve McQueen
“The Dark Knight,” Christopher Nolan
“In The City of Sylvia,” Jose Luis Guerin
—Bill Stamets
Top 5 Films
“Milk,” Gus Vant Sant
“The Dark Knight,” Christopher Nolan
“Man on Wire,” James Marsh
“Let the Right One In,” Tomas Alfredson
“Rachel Getting Married,” Jonathan Demme
—Tom Lynch
Top 5 Performances – Female
Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Kristin Scott Thomas, “I’ve Loved You So Long”
Kate Winslet, “Revolutionary Road”
Kat Dennings, “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Performances – Male
Benicio Del Toro, “Che”
Sean Penn, “Milk”
Mathieu Amalric, “A Christmas Tale”
Michel Blanc, “The Witnesses”
Ben Kingsley, “Elegy”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Supporting Performances – Female
Ann Savage, “My Winnipeg”
Nurgul Yesilcay, “The Edge of Heaven”
Viola Davis, “Doubt”
Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Zoe Kazan, “Revolutionary Road”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Supporting Performances – Male
Michael Shannon, “Revolutionary Road,” “Shotgun Stories”
Danny McBride, “Pineapple Express”
Richard Dreyfuss, “W.”
Toby Jones, “W.”
Anil Kapoor, “Slumdog Millionaire”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Directors
Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Joachim Trier, “Reprise”
Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Tomas Alfredson, “Let the Right One In”
James Marsh, “Man on Wire”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Screenplays
Fatih Akin, “The Edge Of Heaven”
Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, “Reprise”
Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Charlie Kaufman, “Synecdoche, New York”
Martin McDonagh, “In Bruges”
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Domestic Documentaries
“Encounters at the End of the World,” Werner Herzog
“The Order of Myths,” Margaret Brown
“At The Death House Door,” Steve James, Peter Gilbert
“The Unforeseen,” Laura Dunn
“Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father,” Kurt Kuenne
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Foreign Documentaries
“Man On Wire,” James Marsh
“Of Time and the City,” Terence Davies
“Waltz With Bashir,” Ari Folman
“Up the Yangtze,” Yung Chang
“Young@Heart,” Stephen Walker
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Follies
“Speed Racer,” The Wachowski brothers
“The Fall,” Tarsem
“Adam Resurrected,” Paul Schrader
“Australia,” Baz Luhrmann
“My Blueberry Nights,” Wong Kar-wai
—Ray Pride
Top 5 Films You Can’t See Yet
“24 City,” Jia Zhang-Ke
“35 Shots Of Rum,” Claire Denis
“The English Surgeon,” Geoffrey Smith
“Liverpool,” Lisandro Alonso
“Voy a Explotar (I’m Going to Explode),” Gerardo Naranjo
—Ray Pride
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