รางวัลจากสถาบันนักวิจารณ์ที่ถือว่าใหญ่ และมีอิทธิพล ต่องาน ออสการ์ ได้แก่
Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards (Golden Globe)
Broadcast Film Critics Association's Awards (BFCA, Critics Choice)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Awards (LAFCA)
New York Film Critics Circle Awards (NYFCC)
National Society of Film Critics Awards (NSFCA)
รายชื่อของสถาบัน BFCA สำหรับผู้เข้าชิงรางวัล สาขาภาพยนตร์ ครั้งที่ 14
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 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 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
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