2008 ballot for Jim Ridley
Best Picture
- Rachel Getting Married 25
- In the City of Sylvia 15
- Paranoid Park 15
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 10
- Let the Right One In 10
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 5
- The Order of Myths 5
- Stuck 5
- Synecdoche, New York 5
- The Unforeseen 5
Best Director
- José Luis Guerin, In the City of Sylvia 20
- Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married 20
- Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park 15
- David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 10
- Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In 10
- Michael Haneke, Funny Games 5
- Catherine Breillat, The Last Mistress 5
- Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg 5
- Jia Zhang-Ke, Still Life 5
- Laura Dunn, The Unforeseen 5
Best Actress
- Asia Argento, The Last Mistress 15
- Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married 15
- Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In 15
- Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 15
- Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky 10
- Naomi Watts, Funny Games 10
- Julianne Moore, Savage Grace 5
- Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia! 5
- Audrey Tautou, Priceless 5
- Michelle Williams, Wendy and Lucy 5
Best Actor
- Sean Penn, Milk 20
- Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler 17
- Michael Shannon, Shotgun Stories 15
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt 10
- Lau Ching Wan, Mad Detective 7
- Francois Cluzet, Tell No One 7
- Alejandro Polanco, Chop Shop 7
- Jason Statham, The Bank Job 7
- Ralph Fiennes, The Duchess 5
- Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 5
Best Supporting Actor
- Russell Brand, Forgetting Sarah Marshall 15
- Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder 15
- Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight 15
- Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road 15
- Mark Strong, Body of Lies 15
- Jared Harris, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 5
- Bill Irwin, Rachel Getting Married 5
- Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 5
- Elias Koteas, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 5
- Chris Parnell, The Grand 5
Best Supporting Actress
- Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married 20
- Dianne Wiest, Synecdoche, New York 20
- Lisa Kudrow, Kabluey 15
- Olivia Thirlby, Snow Angels 10
- Debra Winger, Rachel Getting Married 10
- Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 5
- Kristin Scott-Thomas, Tell No One 5
- Tilda Swinton, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 5
- Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler 5
- Laura Vasiliu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 5
Best Screenplay
- Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 10
- Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan, The Dark Knight 10
- Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky 10
- Catherine Breillat, The Last Mistress 10
- John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In 10
- Guy Maddin, My Winnipeg 10
- Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park 10
- Pierre Salvadori and Benoît Graffin, Priceless 10
- Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married 10
- Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York 10
Best Scene
- , The Dark Knight 15
- , Mister Lonely 15
- , Rachel Getting Married 15
- , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 15
- , Let the Right One In 15
- , Paranoid Park 5
- , Surfwise 5
- , WALL-E 5
- , Silent Light 5
- , The Dark Knight 5
Top Ten List
- Rachel Getting Married
- In the City of Sylvia
- Paranoid Park
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Let the Right One In
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
- Synecdoche, New York
- The Order of Myths
- Stuck
- The Unforeseen
Ratings
- 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 3.5
- Anamorph 1.5
- The Animation Show 3.0
- Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer 2.5
- Australia 1.5
- Baby Mama 2.5
- Ballast 3.0
- The Bank Job 3.0
- Boarding Gate 2.5
- Body of Lies 2.0
- Body of War 2.5
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 1.5
- Brideshead Revisited 2.5
- Burn After Reading 2.5
- Cassandra's Dream 2.5
- Changeling 2.5
- Chop Shop 3.0
- City of Ember 3.0
- City of Men 2.5
- Cloverfield 2.0
- Constantine's Sword 2.5
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 3.5
- The Dark Knight 3.0
- Dark Streets 1.0
- David & Layla 2.0
- Dear Zachary: a letter to a son about his father 2.5
- Death Race 2.5
- Defiance 3.0
- Disaster Movie 0.0
- Doomsday 1.5
- Doubt 2.5
- Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! 2.5
- The Duchess 3.0
- Elite Squad 3.0
- Encounters at the End of the World 3.0
- The Eye 1.0
- The Fall 2.0
- Flash Point 1.5
- The Foot Fist Way 0.0
- The Forbidden Kingdom 2.5
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall 3.0
- Frontier(s) 1.0
- Frost/Nixon 2.5
- Funny Games 3.0
- George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead 2.0
- Get Smart 2.5
- A Girl Cut in Two 2.5
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson 2.5
- The Grand 3.0
- Gran Torino 2.5
- Hamlet 2 1.0
- The Happening 1.5
- Happy-Go-Lucky 3.0
- Heavy Metal in Baghdad 3.0
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army 2.5
- Hell Ride 1.0
- Henry Poole Is Here 1.5
- How She Move 3.0
- I Can't Think Straight 1.5
- The Incredible Hulk 2.0
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 2.5
- In the City of Sylvia 3.5
- In the Name of the King -- A Dungeon Siege Tale 1.0
- Irina Palm 1.0
- Iron Man 3.0
- I've Loved You So Long 1.5
- Jar City 2.5
- JCVD 2.5
- A Jihad for Love 2.5
- Journey to the Center of the Earth 2.0
- Jumper 2.0
- Kabluey 3.0
- Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 2.5
- Kung Fu Panda 3.0
- The Last Mistress 3.5
- Leatherheads 2.0
- Let the Right One In 3.5
- Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 2.5
- Mad Detective 2.5
- Mamma Mia! 2.5
- Man on Wire 3.0
- Marley and Me 1.5
- Max Payne 1.0
- Milk 3.0
- Mirrors 1.0
- Mister Lonely 2.5
- Mongol 3.0
- The Mother of Tears 1.0
- My Brother Is an Only Child 2.5
- My Winnipeg 3.0
- Never Back Down 2.5
- Never Forever 2.5
- Nights in Rodanthe 2.0
- One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story 3.0
- The Order of Myths 3.5
- Paranoid Park 3.5
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie 1.5
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead 2.0
- Priceless 3.5
- Profit motive and the whispering wind 3.5
- Punisher: War Zone 2.0
- Quarantine 3.0
- Rachel Getting Married 4.0
- Rambo 2.0
- The Reader 2.0
- Redbelt 2.0
- Revolutionary Road 2.5
- Righteous Kill 1.0
- Roman de Gare 2.0
- The Ruins 2.5
- Run Fat Boy Run 2.5
- Savage Grace 2.0
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man 3.0
- Sex and the City 2.0
- Shine a Light 3.0
- Shotgun Stories 3.0
- The Signal 3.0
- Slumdog Millionaire 2.5
- Snow Angels 2.5
- Son of Rambow 2.5
- Speed Racer 1.5
- The Spiderwick Chronicles 3.0
- Sputnik Mania 3.0
- Still Life 3.5
- The Strangers 2.5
- Stuck 3.5
- Sukiyaki Western Django 3.0
- Surfwise 3.0
- Synecdoche, New York 3.5
- Teeth 2.0
- Tell No One 3.0
- Then She Found Me 3.0
- Timecrimes 2.5
- Towelhead 0.0
- Trailer Park of Terror 1.5
- Traitor 2.5
- Transporter 3 2.5
- Tropic Thunder 2.5
- Trouble the Water 3.0
- Twilight 2.5
- U23D 2.5
- The Unforeseen 3.5
- Up the Yangtze 3.5
- The Wackness 2.0
- Waltz With Bashir 2.5
- Wanted 2.0
- Wendy and Lucy 3.5
- What Happens in Vegas 2.0
- What Just Happened 2.0
- Woman on the Beach 3.0
- The Wrestler 3.0
- Young@Heart 3.0
- Zack and Miri Make a Porno 3.0