If I Ran the Oscars: 2008

  • Best Picture
  • Silent Light
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • My Winnipeg
  • The Strangers
  • Stuck

  • Best Director
  • Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light)
  • Guy Maddin (My Winnipeg)
  • Hou Hsiao-hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon)
  • Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park)
  • Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York)

  • Best Actor
  • Guillaume Depardieu (The Duchess of Langeais)
  • Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man)
  • Stephen Rea (Stuck)
  • Benicio del Toro (Che)
  • Brian Cox (Red)

  • Best Actress
  • Inés Efron (XXY)
  • Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)
  • Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
  • Anamaria Marinca (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
  • Michelle Williams (Wendy and Lucy)

  • Best Supporting Actor
  • Brad Pitt (Burn After Reading)
  • Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)
  • Vlad Ivanov (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)
  • Tom Noonan (Synecdoche, New York)
  • Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges)

  • Best Supporting Actress
  • Ann Savage (My Winnipeg)
  • Hafsia Herzi (The Secret of the Grain)
  • Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married)
  • Samantha Morton (Synecdoche, New York)
  • Laura Vasilu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)

  • Best Original Screenplay
  • WALL·E
  • Burn After Reading
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • Rachel Getting Married
  • My Winnipeg

  • Best Adapted Screenplay
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Duchess of Langeais
  • Paranoid Park
  • Funny Games
  • Iron Man

  • Best Cinematography
  • Silent Light
  • Paranoid Park
  • Funny Games
  • Flight of the Red Balloon
  • Encounters at the End of the World

  • Best Editing
  • My Winnipeg
  • Silent Light
  • The Tracey Fragments
  • The Strangers
  • Funny Games

  • Best Documentary
  • Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind
  • Encounters at the End of the World
  • Standard Operating Procedure
  • Heavy Metal in Baghdad
  • Surfwise

  • Best Foreign-Language Film
  • Silent Light
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  • Sukiyaki Western Django
  • In the City of Sylvia
  • The Duchess of Langeais

  • Best Art Direction
  • WALL·E
  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army
  • The Duchess of Langeais
  • My Winnipeg
  • Sukiyaki Western Django

  • Best Costume Design
  • The Duchess of Langeais
  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army
  • The Last Mistress
  • The Other Boleyn Girl
  • The Counterfeiters

  • Best Makeup Effects
  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • The Ruins

  • Best Visual Effects
  • Hellboy II: The Golden Army
  • Iron Man
  • The Dark Knight

  • Best Sound
  • In the City of Sylvia
  • WALL·E
  • Paranoid Park
  • Silent Light
  • The Strangers

  • Best Sound Effects Editing
  • The Dark Knight
  • Iron Man
  • WALL·E
Author Comments: 

And again...

Nominees are in preferential order.

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