Highlights and Winners of the Broadcast Film Critics Awards

Last night I had the privilege of attending the Broadcast Film Critics Awards, which we live twittered here and was broadcasted on VH1. The night went much more quickly than I expected. Normally award shows have a tendency to drag on, but this one was trimmed down to the bare necessities and moved right along. Some of the highlights of the show include when Anne Hathaway tied with Meryl Streep for an award and said that she was so excited it “felt like her gums were receding,” Viola Davis accepting Meryl Streeps award and saying “the one person I know Meryl would really like to thank above all is me,” and Jason Alexander asking Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie if they would consider adopting him as he noticed they didn’t have any Jews in the family yet.

Slumdog Millionaire was definitely the big winner of the night (deservedly so), racking up Best Picture, Best Director, Best Young Actor/Actress, and Best Composer. Milk was not far behind with two wins for Best Actor and Best Ensemble.

Check out the winners and more about the event below…

The most interesting part of the night for me was the arrival. They have you pull your car up to where there are a few bleachers full of people and when you get out they all cheer. Now, none of them had any clue who I was. So although the cheers were nice, I wondered what the deal was. I later found out that they have someone standing in front of the bleachers orchestrating the cheers, so that they synchronize with your first step out of your vehicle with a “WOOOOOOOOOOOO.” Pretty crazy huh? So just when everyone is feeling good about themselves, you find out it’s FAKE. Hey, I’ll take what I can get.

As for the event itself, it was full of a lot of famous faces that all seemed to know one another. I eventually found someone who did recognize me. I went to high school with one of the hostesses. She told me that while serving Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie someone had to watch her pour all the drinks to ensure nothing “extra” went into them. How crazy is that?

Enough with my ramblings, here are the nominees and winners…

BEST PICTURE
* Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Wrestler

BEST ACTOR
* Sean Penn – Milk
Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

BEST ACTRESS – TIE
* Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
* Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kate Beckinsale – Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Melissa Leo – Frozen River

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
* Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin – Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
James Franco – Milk

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
* Kate Winslet – The Reader
Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Vera Farmiga – Nothing But the Truth
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
* Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Rachel Getting Married

BEST DIRECTOR
* 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 WRITER (Original or Adapted Screenplay)
* Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black – Milk
Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
* Wall-E
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Waltz With Bashir

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)
* Dev Petal – Slumdog Millionaire
Dakota Fanning – The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross – The Reader
Brandon Walters – Australia

BEST ACTION MOVIE
* The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wanted

BEST COMEDY
* Tropic Thunder
Burn After Reading
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
* John Adams
Recount
Coco Chanel

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
* Waltz With Bashir
A Christmas Tale
Gomorrah
I’ve Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Mongol

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
* Man On Wire
I.O.U.S.A.
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Standard Operating Procedure
Young At Heart

BEST SONG
* “The Wrestler” – Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen – The Wrestler
“Another Way to Die” – Jack White and Alicia Keys/Jack White – Quantum of Solace
“Down to Earth” – Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman – Wall-E
“I Thought I Lost You” – Miley Cyrus and John Travolta/Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele – Bolt
“Jaiho” – Sukhwinder Singh/A.R. Rahman and Gulzar – Slumdog Millionaire

BEST COMPOSER
* A.R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire
Alexandre Desplat – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood – Changeling
Danny Elfman – Milk
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard – The Dark Knight