Austin Film Critics Awards, from 'The Dark Knight' to 'Crawford'

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The Austin Film Critics Association announced their 2008 awards today. The Dark Knight cleaned up with five awards, including Best Picture. Check out a list of all the awards after the jump.

The last award on the list is most relevant to this site: Best Austin Film went to David Modigliani's documentary Crawford, about the Texas town where President George W. Bush bought a ranch. Crawford premiered here in Austin this year at SXSW, and I interviewed Modigliani beforehand. I also reviewed the film for Cinematical. It's currently available to watch for free on Hulu, and also is on Netflix Watch Instantly.

Speaking of Austin and film festivals, I would venture to guess that if it weren't for Fantastic Fest, a lot of us might not have been exposed to films such as Timecrimes (winner of Best First Film) and Let the Right One In (winner of Best Foreign Language Film).

This is my first year as a member of Austin Film Critics Association, and the process was very exciting. I'm pleased that we picked such an interesting variety of movies, filmmakers and actors.

Austin Film Critics Association 2008 Awards

Top 10 Films:
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Synecdoche, New York
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Wrestler
WALL*E
Frost/Nixon
Let the Right One In
Gran Torino

Best Picture: The Dark Knight

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight

Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk

Best Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

Best Supporting Actress: Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Dark Knight, Jonthan Nolan and Christopher Nolan

Best Cinematography: The Fall, Colin Watkinson

Best Original Score: The Dark Knight, James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmerman

Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) - Sweden

Best Documentary Film: Man on Wire

Best Animated Feature: WALL*E

Breakthrough Artist Award: Danny McBride, Pineapple Express/The Foot Fist Way/Tropic Thunder

Best First Film: Nacho Vigalondo, Timecrimes (Los Cronocrímenes)

Best Austin Film: Crawford