BEST PICTURE * “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” “The Dark Knight” “Milk” “Rachel Getting Married” “The Wrestler” (runner-up)

BEST ACTOR Colin Farrell – “In Bruges” Ralph Fiennes – “The Reader” Richard Jenkins – “The Visitor” * Sean Penn – “Milk” Mickey Rourke – “The Wrestler” (runner-up)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Stephen Dillane – “Savage Grace” (runner-up) Robert Downey Jr. – “Tropic Thunder” James Franco – “Milk” * Heath Ledger – “The Dark Knight” Brad Pitt – “Burn After Reading”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY “The Class” – François Bégaudeau (runner-up) * “The Dark Knight” – Christopher & John Nolan “Doubt” – John Patrick Shanley “The Reader” – David Hare “Savage Grace” – Howard A. Rodman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” – Oleg Mutu “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” – Claudio Miranda * “The Dark Knight” – Wally Pfister “The Fall” – Colin Watkinson (runner-up) “Slumdog Millionaire” – Anthony Dod Mantle

BEST ART DIRECTION “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo (runner-up) “The Dark Knight” – Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando * “The Fall” – Ged Clarke, Riccardo Pugliese, Cynthia Sleiter, Tarsem Singh “Milk” – Charley Beal, Bill Groom, Barbara Munch “WALL-E” –Ralph Eggleston

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) “The Dark Knight” – James Newton Howard, Hans Zimmer “Milk” – Danny Elfman * “The Reader” – Nico Muhly “WALL-E” – Thomas Newman (runner-up) “The Wrestler” – Clint Mansell

BEST ANIMATED FILM “Kung Fu Panda” * “WALL-E” “Waltz with Bashir”

BEST SOUND MIXING “The Dark Knight” * “Slumdog Millionaire” “The Strangers” “WALL-E” (runner-up) “The Wrestler”

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS * “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” “The Dark Knight” “The Fall”

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST “Milk” (runner-up) *“Rachel Getting Married” “Sex and the City: The Movie” “Tropic Thunder” “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”