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Dark Knight earns 6 Critics Choice nominations including Best Picture!

by Blair on Dec.09, 2008, under NEWS

Great sign for the Oscars. The 2008 Critics Choice awards show 6 nominations in major categories for Dark Knight. It’s in 3rd place behind “Benjamin Button” and “Milk” with 8 each.

Critics' Choice AwardsThe 14th Critics’ Choice Awards will be given on 8 January 2009 to honor the finest achievements in 2008 filmmaking.
Thanks to our poster WillyJoel here who tipped us off. Here’s the categories “The Dark Knight” has been nominated in:

BEST PICTURE

Nominees:
• Changeling
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Doubt
• Frost/Nixon
• Milk
• The Reader
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Wall-E
• The Wrestler

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Nominees:
• Josh Brolin - Milk
• Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
• Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
• James Franco - Milk

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Nominees:
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Dark Knight
• Doubt
• Milk
• Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR

Nominees:
• Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
• David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
• Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
• Gus Van Sant - Milk

BEST ACTION MOVIE

Nominees:
• The Dark Knight
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Iron Man
• Quantum of Solace
• Wanted

BEST COMPOSER

Nominees:
• Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Clint Eastwood - Changeling
• Danny Elfman - Milk
• Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
• A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire

4 comments for this entry:
  1. Krystal
    December 9th, 2008 on 2:06 pm

    Also, according to wenn.com (at IMDb news), Heath Ledger has WON!!! Best Supporting Actor from the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. :o)

  2. Pierre-Aldo
    December 10th, 2008 on 9:53 am

    Ledger also won best supporting actor by LA critics!

  3. WillyJoel
    December 10th, 2008 on 10:13 am

    Hey my pleasure!!! anything for TDK!!, however, I don’t really know what’s up with NY (remember that idiot critic who blasted it?) but the NY critics did not choose TDK for any award. Come on NY critics!! get your head out of your butts!!!

    http://www.nyfcc.com/awards.php

  4. vampyra
    December 15th, 2008 on 9:58 pm

    And Heather Ledger won an award from the Australian Film Institute for his work in The Dark Knight

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