page_title: 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Winners
caption_attribution_description: Español: Penélope Cruz en los 32º Premios Goya, 2018. English: Penélope Cruz at the 32nd Goya Awards, 2018.
context_page_description: The 34th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honored the best in film for 2008. Pixar's animated film WALL-E won the Best Film award and became the first-ever animated film to do so; however, the film lost the Best Animated Film award to Waltz with Bashir.
context_section_description: Best Picture:
   WALL-E
  Runner-up: The Dark Knight
  Best Director:
  Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
  Runner-up: Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight
  Best Actor:
  Sean Penn – Milk
  Runner-up: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
  Best Actress:
  Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
  Runner-up: Melissa Leo – Frozen River
  Best Supporting Actor:
  Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight (posthumously)
  Runner-up: Eddie Marsan – Happy-Go-Lucky
  Best Supporting Actress:
  Penélope Cruz – Elegy and Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  Runner-up: Viola Davis – Doubt
  Best Screenplay:
  Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
  Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman – Synecdoche, New York
  Best Cinematography:
  Yu Lik-wai – Still Life (Sanxia haoren)
  Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire
  Best Production Design:
  Mark Friedberg – Synecdoche, New York
  Runner-up: Nathan Crowley – The Dark Knight
  Best Music Score:
  A. R. Rahman – Slumdog Millionaire
  Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
  Best Foreign-Language Film:
  Still Life (Sanxia haoren) – China/Hong Kong
  Runner-up: The Class (Entre les murs) – France
  Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
  Man on Wire
  Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)
  Best Animation:
  Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)
  The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  James Benning – RR and Casting a Glance
  New Generation Award:
  Steve McQueen – Hunger
caption: Penélope Cruz, Best Supporting Actress winner
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