“WALL-E” Named Best Picture in Online Film Critics Society Awards
NEW YORK, January 19, 2009 – The animated film “WALL-E” was named Best Picture in the 12th annual Online Film Critics Society Awards. The production also won awards for Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon.s original screenplay and for Best Animated Film.
Two other films, however, won more awards. “The Dark Knight” won four awards: Christopher Nolan's direction, Heath Ledger's supporting actor performance, cinematography and original score. The Swedish film “Let the Right One In” also won four awards: Best Foreign-Language Film, John Ajvide Lindqvist's adapted screenplay, and newcomer awards for actress Lina Leandersson and filmmaker Tomas Alfredson.
The complete winners list for the OFCS Awards are as follows:
BEST PICTURE: WALL-E
BEST DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
BEST ACTOR: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
BEST ACTRESS: Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, WALL-E
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Man On Wire
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: WALL-E
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Let the Right One In (Sweden)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer, The Dark Knight
BEST EDITING: Chris Dickens, Slumdog Millionaire
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: Lina Leandersson, Let the Right In
BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In
Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society has been the key force in establishing and raising the standards for Internet-based film journalism. The OFCS membership spans the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific Rim region. The Society's web site, which has been hosted since January 2001 by the highly influential film resource Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com), provides the most comprehensive online listing of reviews and original interviews with the leading artists in today's cinema, plus links to the most important motion picture-related web sites.
For more information, visit the Online Film Critics Society at www.ofcs.org.
For a complete list of the year's nominees, click here.
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