The Cinematic Experience of Forizzer

Best Picture
winner: Milk
- Ballast
- Changeling
- Frost/Nixon
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Rachel Getting Married
- The Reader
- Revolutionary Road
- The Visitor
- The Wrestler

Best Actor:
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
if not, then: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Actress:
Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road/The Reader
if not, then: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married

Best Supporting Actor
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
if not, then: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt

Best Supporting Actress
Debra Winger, Rachel Getting Married
if not, then: Vera Farmiga, Nothing But the Truth

Breakthrough Actor:
James Franco, Pineapple Express/Milk
if not, then: Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Breakthrough Actress:
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
if not, then: Melissa Leo, Frozen River

Best Director:
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
if not, then: Gus van Sant, Milk

Best Debut Director:
Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
if not, then: Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

Best Original Screenplay:
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
if not, then: Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
if not, then: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Documentary:
Man on Wire
if not, then: I.O.U.S.A.

Best Foreign Language Film:
A Christmas Tale [france]
if not, then: Gomorrah [italy]

Best Acting by an Ensemble:
Changeling
if not, then: Synecdoche, New York

Best Animated Feature:
Wall-E
if not, then: Waltz With Bashir

Best Film or Mini-Series Made for TV:
John Adams
if not, then: Recount

The official NBR picks will be announced at 12:00pm on Thursday, December 4th, 2008.