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74th NYFCC Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 5, 2009 </div>
Best Picture: <br> <big>Milk</big> </div>
The 74th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were announced on 10 December 2008 and presented on 5 January 2009.
1. Sean Penn â Milk<br> 2. Mickey Rourke â The Wrestler<br> 3. Clint Eastwood â Gran Torino
1. Sally Hawkins â Happy-Go-Lucky<br> 2. Melissa Leo â Frozen River<br> 3. Anne Hathaway â Rachel Getting Married<br> 3. Kate Winslet â Revolutionary Road
1. WALL-E<br> 2. Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)
1. Anthony Dod Mantle â Slumdog Millionaire<br> 2. Claudio Miranda â The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<br> 3. Wally Pfister â The Dark Knight
1. Mike Leigh â Happy-Go-Lucky<br> 2. Danny Boyle â Slumdog Millionaire<br> 3. David Fincher â The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1. Milk<br> 2. Rachel Getting Married<br> 3. Happy-Go-Lucky<br> 3. Slumdog Millionaire
1. Courtney Hunt â Frozen River<br> 2. Lance Hammer â Ballast<br> 3. Joachim Trier â Reprise
1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile) ⢠Romania<br> 2. A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël) ⢠France<br> 3. The Class (Entre les murs) ⢠France
1. Man on Wire<br> 2. Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)<br> 3. Trouble the Water
1. Jenny Lumet â Rachel Getting Married<br> 2. Mike Leigh â Happy-Go-Lucky<br> 3. Robert D. Siegel â The Wrestler
1. Josh Brolin â Milk<br> 2. Heath Ledger â The Dark Knight<br> 3. Robert Downey Jr. â Tropic Thunder
1. Penélope Cruz â Vicky Cristina Barcelona<br> 2. Viola Davis â Doubt<br> 3. Rosemarie DeWitt â Rachel Getting Married<br> 3. Debra Winger â Rachel Getting Married