2008 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall & Ceán Chaffin)
• The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas & Charles Roven)
• Frost/Nixon (Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner)
• Slumdog Millionaire (Christian Colson)
• WALL·E (Jim Morris)
  (Honourable Mentions: Changeling, In Bruges, Kung Fu Panda, Revolutionary Road, Tropic Thunder)

Best Director

• Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
• David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
• Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
• Andrew Stanton - WALL·E
  (Honourable Mentions: Clint Eastwood - Changeling, Jon Favreau - Iron Man, Mike Leigh - Happy-Go-Lucky, Sam Mendes - Revolutionary Road, Gus Van Sant - Milk)

Best Lead Actor

• Robert Downey, Jr. - Iron Man
• Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
• Sean Penn - Milk
• Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
  (Honourable Mentions: Christian Bale - The Dark Knight, Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino, Colin Farrell - In Bruges, Richard Jenkins - The Visitor, Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Lead Actress

• Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
• Sally Hawkins - Happy-Go-Lucky
• Angelina Jolie - Changeling
• Meryl Streep - Doubt
• Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road
  (Honourable Mentions: Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Melissa Leo - Frozen River, Kristin Scott Thomas - I've Loved You So Long, Meryl Streep - Mamma Mia!, Michelle Williams - Wendy and Lucy)

Best Supporting Actor

• Josh Brolin - Milk
• Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
• Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
• Maddhur Mittal - Slumdog Millionaire
  (Honourable Mentions: Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder, James Franco - Milk, Brendan Gleeson - In Bruges, Eddie Marsan - Happy-Go-Lucky, Michael Shannon - Revolutionary Road)

Best Supporting Actress

• Amy Adams - Doubt
• Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Viola Davis - Doubt
• Rosemarry DeWitt - Rachel Getting Married
• Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
  (Honourable Mentions: Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Freida Pinto - Slumdog Millionaire, Tilda Swinton - Burn After Reading, Tilda Swinton - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kate Winslet - The Reader)

Best Original Screenplay

• Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
• In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)
• Milk (Dustin Lance Black)
• The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy)
• WALL·E (Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon & Pete Docter)
  (Honourable Mentions: Burn After Reading, Changeling, Frozen River, Kung Fu Panda, The Wrestler)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Eric Roth & Robin Swicord; based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
• The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan & David S. Goyer; based on the characters from the DC Comics created by Bob Kane & Bill Finger)
• Doubt (John Patrick Shanley; based on the play Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley)
• Frost/Nixon (Peter Morgan; based on the play by Peter Morgan)
• Slumdog Millionaire (Simon Beaufoy; based on the novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup)
  (Honourable Mentions: Iron Man, Let the Right One In, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Wendy and Lucy)

Best Cast Ensemble

• The Dark Knight [John Papsidera, casting director] (Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eric Roberts, Néstor Carbonell & Morgan Freeman, et. al.)
• Iron Man [Sarah Finn & Randi Hiller, casting directors] (Robert Downey, Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shaun Toub, Paul Bettany, Clark Gregg, Jon Favreau & Gwyneth Paltrow, et. al.)
• Rachel Getting Married [Bernard Telsey, casting director] (Anne Hathaway, Rosemarry DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Debra Winger, Tunde Adebimpe, Mather Zickel, Tamyra Gray, Sebastian Stan & Anna Deveare Smith, et. al.)
• Slumdog Millionaire [Gail Stevens & Loveleen Tandan, casting directors] (Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Maddhur Mittal, Ayush Makesh Khedekar, Rubina Ali, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Tanay Chheda, Irrfan Khan & Anil Kapoor, et. al.)
• Tropic Thunder [Kathy Driscoll & Francine Maisler, casting directors (Ben Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr., Jack Black, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson & Tom Cruise, et. al.)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Milk, Valkyrie)

Best Young Actor (18 or Under)

• Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees
• Freddie Highmore - The Spiderwick Chronicles
• Lina Leandersson - Let the Right One In
• Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire
• Brandon Walters - Australia
  (Honourable Mentions: Josh Hutcherson - Journey to the Center of the Earth, Skandar Keynes - The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, David Kross - The Reader, Jaden Smith - The Day the Earth Stood Still, Catinca Untaru - The Fall)

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel)
• Gomorrah (Matteo Carrone)
• Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
• Mongol (Sergei Bodrov)
• Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman)
  (Honourable Mentions: Che, A Christmas Tale, The Class, Departures, I've Loved You So Long)

Best Documentary Feature

• Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog, Erik Nelson & Henry Kaiser)
• I.O.U.S.A. (Patrick Creadon & Christine O'Malley)
• Man on Wire (James Marsh & Simon Chinn)
• Standard Operating Procedure (Errol Morris & Julie Ahlberg)
• Trouble the Water (Tia Lessin & Carl Deal)
  (Honourable Mentions: American Teen, Dear Zachary: A Letter to the Son from His Father, The Garden, Waltz with Bashir, Young@Heart)

Best Original Score

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Alexandre Desplat)
• The Dark Knight (Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard)
• Milk (Danny Elfman)
  
• Slumdog Millionaire (A.R. Rahman)
• WALL·E (Thomas Newman)
  (Honourable Mentions: Australia, Changeling, Defiance, Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda)

Best Original Song

• "Down to Earth" - WALL·E (Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman)
• "Jai Ho" - Slumdog Millionaire (A.R. Rahman & Gulzar)
• "The Wrestler" - The Wrestler (Bruce Springsteen)
  (Honourable Mentions: "Another Way to Die" - Quantum of Solace, "Dracula's Lament" - Forgetting Sarah Marshall, "Gran Torino" - Gran Torino, "Once in a Lifetime" - Cadillac Records, "The Traveling Song" - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa)

Best Sound Editing

• Changeling (Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman)
• The Dark Knight (Richard King)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Ben Burtt & Richard Hymns)
• Iron Man (Christopher Boyes & Frank E. Eulner)
• WALL·E (Ben Burtt & Matthew Wood)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kung Fu Panda, Quantum of Solace, Slumdog Millionaire, Wanted)

Best Sound Mixing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce & Mark Weingarten)
• The Dark Knight (Gary Rizzo, Lora Hirschberg & Ed Novick)
• Iron Man (Christopher Boyes, Lora Hirschberg & Mark Ulano)
• Slumdog Millionaire (Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke & Resul Pookutty)
• WALL·E (Tom Myers, Michael Semanick & Ben Burtt
  (Honourable Mentions: Changeling, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Kung Fu Panda, Quantum of Solace, Wanted)

Best Animated Feature

• Kung Fu Panda (Mark Osborne, John Stevenson & Melissa Cobb)
• WALL·E (Andrew Stanton)
• Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, Serge Lalou & Roman Paul)
  (Honourable Mentions: $9.99, Bolt, Horton Hears a Who!, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The Sky Crawlers)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Ben Burtt - WALL·E
• Dustin Hoffman - Kung Fu Panda
• Angelina Jolie - Kung Fu Panda
• Ian McShane - Kung Fu Panda
• John Travolta - Bolt
  (Honourable Mentions: Jim Carrey - Horton Hears a Who!, John Cusack - Igor, Chris Rock - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Mark Walton - Bolt, Will.i.am - Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa)

Best Cinematography

• Changeling (Tom Stern)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Claudio Miranda)
• The Dark Knight (Wally Pfister)
• The Reader (Chris Menges & Roger Deakins)
• Slumdog Millionaire (Anthony Dod Mantle)
  (Honourable Mentions: Australia, The Fall, Let the Right One In, Milk, Revolutionary Road)

Best Film Editing

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall)
• The Dark Knight (Lee Smith)
• Frost/Nixon (Mike Hill & Daniel P. Hanley)
• Slumdog Millionaire (Chris Dickens)
• WALL·E (Stephen Schaffer)
  (Honourable Mentions: Changeling, In Bruges, Iron Man, Milk, Tropic Thunder)

Best Art Direction

• Changeling (James J. Murakami & Gary Fettis)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Donald Graham Burt & Victor J. Zolfo)
• The Dark Knight (Nathan Crowley & Peter Lando)
• Revolutionary Road (Kristi Zea & Debra Schutt
• WALL·E (Ralph Eggleston)
  (Honourable Mentions: Australia, City of Ember, The Duchess, Kung Fu Panda, Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Costume Design

• Australia (Catherine Martin)
• City of Ember (Ruth Myers)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Jacqueline West)
• The Duchess (Michael O'Connor)
• Revolutionary Road (Albert Wolsky)
  (Honourable Mentions: Changeling, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Dark Knight, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire)

Best Makeup

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Greg Cannom)
• The Dark Knight (John Caglione Jr. & Conor O'Sullivan)
• Tropic Thunder (Rick Baker & Gerald Quist)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Frost/Nixon, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Synecdoche, New York, The Wrestler)

Best Visual Effects

• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton & Craig Barron)
• The Dark Knight (Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber & Paul Franklin)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Pablo Helman, Marshall Krasser, Christine Felman & Stephanie Hornish)
• Iron Man (John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick & Shane Mahan)
• Quantum of Solace (Chris Corbould, Angela Barson, Jon Thum & Alex Wuttke)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Cloverfield, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Speed Race, WALL·E)