RULES: Participants divvied up 100 points among ten "nominees" in each category, with a maximum of 30 points for any given selection and a minimum of 5 points. Results are expressed as points/votes.
- Category:
- Winners
- Picture
- Director
- Actress
- Actor
- Supporting actor
- Supporting actress
- Screenplay
- Scene
Best Screenplay
| Rank | Name | Movie | Points/Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen | Burn After Reading | 318 / 20 |
| 2 | Charlie Kaufman | Synecdoche, New York | 243 / 13 |
| 3 | Christopher Nolan & Jonathan Nolan | The Dark Knight | 222 / 17 |
| 4 | Guy Maddin | My Winnipeg | 183 / 18 |
| 5 | Martin McDonagh | In Bruges | 169 / 11 |
| 6 | Arnaud Desplechin & Emmanuel Bourdieu | A Christmas Tale | 165 / 14 |
| 7 | Cristian Mungiu | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | 148 / 17 |
| 8 | Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon | WALL-E | 143 / 15 |
| 9 | Jenny Lumet | Rachel Getting Married | 120 / 13 |
| 10 | Woody Allen | Vicky Cristina Barcelona | 106 / 11 |
| 11 | Hong Sang-soo | Woman on the Beach | 101 / 9 |
| 12 | Jacques Rivette et al. | The Duchess of Langeais | 97 / 10 |
| 13 | Fatih Akin | The Edge of Heaven | 81 / 7 |
| 14 | Mike Leigh | Happy-Go-Lucky | 69 / 9 |
| 15 | Catherine Breillat | The Last Mistress | 64 / 7 |
| 16 | Robert Siegel | The Wrestler | 62 / 6 |
| 17 | John Ajvide Lindqvist | Let the Right One In | 57 / 7 |
| 18 | John Patrick Shanley | Doubt | 55 / 7 |
| 19 | Carlos Reygadas | Silent Light | 50 / 6 |
| 20 | Abdellatif Kechiche | The Secret of the Grain | 49 / 6 |
| 21 | David Mamet | Redbelt | 44 / 6 |
| 22 | Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt | Reprise | 40 / 3 |
| Thomas McCarthy | The Visitor | 40 / 3 | |
| 24 | Dustin Lance Black | Milk | 35 / 5 |
| 25 | Lance Hammer | Ballast | 32 / 4 |
| 26 | John Strysik | Stuck | 30 / 5 |
| 27 | J. Michael Straczynski | Changeling | 30 / 3 |
| Peter Morgan | Frost/Nixon | 30 / 3 | |
| Gus Van Sant | Paranoid Park | 30 / 3 | |
| 30 | Silvio Soldini et al. | Days and Clouds | 28 / 4 |
| 31 | Daniel Waters | Sex and Death 101 | 27 / 3 |
| 32 | Jacques Nolot | Before I Forget | 22 / 2 |
| 33 | Pierre Salvadori and Benoît Graffin | Priceless | 21 / 3 |
| 34 | Brad Anderson & Will Conroy | Transsiberian | 20 / 2 |
| Giuseppe Tornatore | The Unknown Woman | 20 / 2 | |
| Jonathan Levine | The Wackness | 20 / 2 | |
| 37 | Scott Prendergast | Kabluey | 20 / 1 |
| Christopher McQuarrie & Nathan Alexander | Valkyrie | 20 / 1 | |
| 39 | Jeff Nichols | Shotgun Stories | 19 / 3 |
| 40 | Maureen Medved | The Tracey Fragments | 18 / 1 |
| 41 | Jason Segel | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | 17 / 2 |
| Michael Haneke | Funny Games | 17 / 2 | |
| 43 | Simon Beaufoy | Slumdog Millionaire | 15 / 2 |
| David Gordon Green | Snow Angels | 15 / 2 | |
| Nacho Vigalondo | Timecrimes | 15 / 2 | |
| Ben Stiller et al. | Tropic Thunder | 15 / 2 | |
| 47 | Azazel Jacobs | Momma's Man | 15 / 1 |
| 48 | Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais | The Bank Job | 12 / 2 |
| Lorene Scarfaria | Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist | 12 / 2 | |
| David Wain et al. | Role Models | 12 / 2 | |
| Ari Folman | Waltz With Bashir | 12 / 2 | |
| 52 | [no screenwriter credited] | Encounters at the End of the World | 12 / 1 |
| Terence Davies | Of Time and the City | 12 / 1 | |
| 54 | Lou Ye et al. | Summer Palace | 11 / 2 |
| 55 | Mark Fergus et al. | Iron Man | 11 / 1 |
| 56 | Brett Morgen | Chicago 10 | 10 / 2 |
| Tarsem et al. | The Fall | 10 / 2 | |
| Guillaume Canet and Philippe Lefebvre | Tell No One | 10 / 2 | |
| 59 | Baltasar Kormákur | Jar City | 10 / 1 |
| Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven | Roman de Gare | 10 / 1 | |
| Scott B. Smith | The Ruins | 10 / 1 | |
| Cao Hamburger et al. | The Year My Parents Went on Vacation | 10 / 1 | |
| 63 | Michel Ocelot | Azur & Asmar | 9 / 1 |
| Ronald Bronstein | Frownland | 9 / 1 | |
| 65 | Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg | Pineapple Express | 8 / 1 |
| 66 | Yasmin Ahmad | Mukhsin | 7 / 1 |
| Eric Rohmer | The Romance of Astrea and Celadon | 7 / 1 | |
| 68 | José Padilha et al. | Elite Squad | 6 / 1 |
| Ann Peacock | Kit Kittredge: An American Girl | 6 / 1 | |
| Duncan Brantley & Rick Reilly | Leatherheads | 6 / 1 | |
| Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg | Nights and Weekends | 6 / 1 | |
| 72 | Michel Gondry | Be Kind Rewind | 5 / 1 |
| Olivier Assayas | Boarding Gate | 5 / 1 | |
| Woody Allen | Cassandra's Dream | 5 / 1 | |
| Clark Gregg | Choke | 5 / 1 | |
| Caroline Thompson | City of Ember | 5 / 1 | |
| François Bégaudeau | The Class | 5 / 1 | |
| Adam Brooks | Definitely, Maybe | 5 / 1 | |
| Courtney Hunt | Frozen River | 5 / 1 | |
| Claude Chabrol and Cécile Maistre | A Girl Cut in Two | 5 / 1 | |
| Nick Schenk | Gran Torino | 5 / 1 | |
| Mabrouk El Mechri et al. | JCVD | 5 / 1 | |
| Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger | Kung Fu Panda | 5 / 1 | |
| Ilya Chaiken | Liberty Kid | 5 / 1 | |
| Christophe Honoré | Love Songs | 5 / 1 | |
| Chris Smith | The Pool | 5 / 1 | |
| Chaz Thorne and Clément Virgo | Poor Boy's Game | 5 / 1 | |
| Howard A. Rodman | Savage Grace | 5 / 1 | |
| Andy Wachowski & Larry Wachowski | Speed Racer | 5 / 1 | |
| Mitchell Lichtenstein | Teeth | 5 / 1 | |
| Stanley Weiser | W. | 5 / 1 | |
| Kelly Reichardt and Jonathan Raymond | Wendy and Lucy | 5 / 1 | |
| André Téchiné et al. | The Witnesses | 5 / 1 | |
| Simone Bär | Yella | 5 / 1 |