2009 Critics' Choice Awards nominees

BEST PICTURE

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

BEST ACTOR

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

BEST ACTRESS

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

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"
Kate Winslet, "The Reader"

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"The Dark Knight"
"Doubt"
"Milk"
"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

"Bolt"
"Kung Fu Panda"
"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"
"Wall-E"
"Waltz With Bashir"

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)

Dakota Fanning, "The Secret Life of Bees"
David Kross, "The Reader"
Dev Patel, "Slumdog Millionaire"
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 MOVIE

"Burn After Reading"
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall"
"Role Models"
"Tropic Thunder"
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

"John Adams"
"Recount"
"Coco Chanel"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

"A Christmas Tale"
"Gomorrah"
"I've Loved You So Long"
"Let the Right One In"
"Mongol"
"Waltz With Bashir"

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

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

BEST SONG

"Another Way to Die" (performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, written by Jack White), "Quantum of Solace"
"Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel, written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman), "Wall-E"
"I Thought I Lost You" (performed Miley Cyrus and John Travolta, written by Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele), "Bolt"
"Jaiho" (performed by Sukhwinder Singh, written by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar), "Slumdog Millionaire"
"The Wrestler" (performed by Bruce Springsteen, written by Bruce Springsteen), "The Wrestler"

BEST COMPOSER

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"