Sneak Peek - Nareg's Best of 2008 Lists

I had already posted my Top 10 and Film Awards lists for 2007 before this time last year, but work, school, and my extracurricular activities apart from ScreenPlay have prevented me from posting my 2008 lists. To tide you over for now, I'm posting my top 20 films and some of my award winners without commentary. I hope to have both articles up before the Oscar telecast on February 22.

Top Films of 2008

20. "Iron Man"
19. "Gran Torino"
18. "Redbelt"
17. "The Visitor"
16. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"
15. "Burn After Reading"
14. "Doubt"
13. "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
12. "Frozen River"
11. "In Bruges"
10. "Milk"
9. "The Wrestler"
8. "Happy-Go-Lucky"
7. "WALL-E"
6. "The Fall"
5. "Paranoid Park"
4. "Wendy and Lucy"
3. "The Dark Knight"
2. "Synecdoche, New York"
1. "Rachel Getting Married"

Top Documentaries of 2008

6. "Trouble the Water"
5. "Man on Wire"
4. "Encounters at the End of the World"
3. "Standard Operating Procedure"
2. "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father"
1. "My Winnipeg"

Best Actor
Mickey Rourke - "The Wrestler"
Runner-up: Sean Penn - "Milk"

Best Actress
Sally Hawkins - "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Runner-up: Michelle Williams - "Wendy and Lucy"

Best Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger - "The Dark Knight"
Runner-up: Josh Brolin - "Milk"

Best Supporting Actress
Rosemary DeWitt - "Rachel Getting Married"
Runner-up: Viola Davis - "Doubt"

Best Director
Jonathan Demme - "Rachel Getting Married"
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman - "Synecdoche, New York"

Best Foreign Film
"4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days"
Runner-up: "Let the Right One In"

Best Animated Film
"WALL-E"
Runner-up: "Kung Fu Panda"

Best Ensemble Cast
"Rachel Getting Married"
Runner-up: "Doubt"

Most Overrated
"Slumdog Millionaire"
Runner-up: "Frost/Nixon"

Much more to come in the coming weeks. Feel free to sound off.