Tuesday
16Dec2008
Phoenix Critics Favor 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 5:48AM
As a member of the Phoenix Film Critics Society, I can
tell you that I have disagreed with our picks for Best Picture and all the rest
as much as I have agreed. And this year, by and large, this list is pretty
solid. 
Slumdog Millionaire
Sean Penn - Milk
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Milk
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
In Bruges
Slumdog Millionaire
Let the Right One In
Man On Wire
Wall-E
In Bruges
Once again, a lot of the same names keep popping up in familiar places, which should start to tell you something. There are a couple wrinkles, like In Bruges winning three awards and Marisa Tomei picking up Best Supporting Actress, but every group has its wild cards, I suppose.
Best Picture:
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor:
Sean Penn - Milk
Best Actress:
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Best Supporting Actor:
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress:
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Best Ensemble Acting:
Milk
Best Director:
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Screenplay:
In Bruges
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Language Film:
Let the Right One In
Best Documentary:
Man On Wire
Best Animated Film:
Wall-E
Overlooked Film of the Year:
In Bruges
And here's the PFCS list of the Top Ten films of 2008, in alphabetical order:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
In Bruges
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
Wall-E
The Wrestler
Reader Comments (2)
This hype gives me such curiosity to see some of these films. It's just so hard to see the promise in some of them too. The PFCS are looking pretty spiffy these days though =)
Pretty spiffy? The PFCS does this thing each week where they pick a "Phoenix Favorite Film," naming the best new film opening that week. 'Slumdog' lost out to Bolt the week it opened and the PFCS liked Wanted over WALL-E the week it opened. And one of their highest rated films of 2008 was a cheap tearjerker named Under the Same Moon. If they were an honest bunch, they'd own up to their lousy weekly picks and have Bolt, Wanted, and Under the Same Moon on their top ten list--instead of scrambling at the end of the year to make their list look like everybody else's.