Online Film Critics Society Awards (OFCS) 2008

2007

The Online Film Critics Society was Founded in 1997 in the US. One year later in 1998 it launched its annual Year End Awards. The society itself is made up of critics whose main affiliations are film related web sites. On January 9th 2008 in New York the 11th annual award ceremony was held. The society nominate in, and gives out awards in 16 different categories.

2008 Nominations and winners were:                                            

Best Picture

Atonement
Juno
No Country For Old Men (Winner)
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
 

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Joel & Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (Winner)
David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises
David Fincher, Zodiac
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
 

Best Actor

George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (Winner)
Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

Best Actress

Julie Christie, Away From Her (Winner)
Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno
 

Best Supporting Actor

Casey Affleck, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men (Winner)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
 

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Jennifer Garner, Juno
Kelly MacDonald, No Country for Old Men
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone (Winner)
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
 

Best Original Screenplay

Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
Eastern Promises
Juno (Winner)
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille

Best Adapted Screenplay

Atonement
Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country For Old Men (Winner)
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac

Best Cinematography

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
Atonement
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The
No Country for Old Men (Winner)
There Will Be Blood
 

Best Editing

Atonement
Bourne Ultimatum, The
No Country For Old Men (Winner)
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
 

Best Original Score

Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The
Atonement
Into the Wild
Once
There Will Be Blood (Winner)
 

Best Documentary

In the Shadow of the Moon
Into Great Silence
King of Kong, The (Winner)
No End in Sight
Sicko
 

Best Foreign Language (Non-English) Film

Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (Winner)
Host, The
La Vie En Rose
Lives of Others
Orphanage, The
 

Best Animated Feature

Beowulf
Paprika
Persepolis
Ratatouille (Winner)
Simpsons Movie, The
 

Breakthrough Filmmaker

Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
John Carney, Once
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Sarah Polley, Away From Her (Winner)
 

Breakthrough Performance

Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray (Winner)
Glen Hansard, Once
Sam Riley, Control
Carice Van Houten, Black Book
Tang Wei,  Lust, Caution