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Slumdog Tops Washington, DC Critics

Susan Thea Posnock by Susan Thea Posnock
December 7, 2008
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The WAFCA have spoken, Slumdog sweeps:

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire/Fox Searchlight
Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Doubt)
Best Ensemble: Doubt/Miramax
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married)
Best Breakthrough Performance: Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire)
Best Original Screenplay: Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married)
Best Animated Feature: Wall‚àôE /Disney & Pixar
Best Foreign Language Film: Let The Right One In/Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing
Best Documentary: Man On Wire/Magnolia
Best Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button/Paramount

More WAFCA history after the cut.

Last year:

Best Film:No Country for Old Men/Miramax & Paramount Vantage
Best Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
Best Actor: George Clooney (Michael Clayton)
Best Actress: Julie Christie (Away From Her)
Best Ensemble:No Country for Old Men/Miramax & Paramount Vantage
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)
Best Breakthrough Performance: Ellen Page (Juno)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin (Charlie Wilson’s War)
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody (Juno)
Best Animated Feature:Ratatouille/Disney & Pixar
Best Foreign Language Film:The Diving Bell and the Butterfly/Miramax
Best Documentary:SiCKO/The Weinstein Company
Best Art Direction:Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street/Paramount

Year before that:

Best Film, United 93/Universal
Best Actor, Forest Whitaker – The Last King Of Scotland
Best Actress, Helen Mirren – The Queen
Best Supporting Actor, Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress, Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Best Director, Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Best Screenplay, Original, Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine
Best Screenplay, Adapted, Jason Reitman – Thank You For Smoking
Best Foreign Film, Pan’s Labyrinth/Picturehouse
Best Animated Feature, Happy Feet/Warner Brothers
Best Documentary, An Inconvenient Truth/Paramount Classics
Best Breakthrough Performance, Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Best Ensemble, Little Miss Sunshine/Fox Searchlight
Best Art Direction, Marie Antoinette/SONY Pictures Entertainment

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