Chlotrudis Awards 2008

The 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards were presented March 30, 2008, by the Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film. Honoring the best of the past year's independent, documentary and international film, the awards ceremony took place at the venerable Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Special guest Alberta Watson addressed the audience after receiving the society's Career So Far Award.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Movie

Once

• Linda Linda Linda
• The Lives of Others
• No Country for Old Men
• Protagonist
• There Will Be Blood

Buried Treasure

12:08 East of Bucharest

• Live-In Maid
• Romántico
• Tears of the Black Tiger
• Wristcutters: A Love Story

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood

• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
• Julia Loktev - Day Night Day Night
• Sarah Polley - Away from Her
• Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Tsai Ming-liang - I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

Best Actress

Kate Dickie - Red Road

• Julie Christie - Away from Her
• Mirjana Karanovic - Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams
• Ellen Page - Juno
• Sarah Polley - The Secret Life of Words
• Parker Posey - Fay Grim

Best Actor

Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood

• Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
• Philip Seymour Hoffman - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• Gordon Pinsent - Away from Her
• Sam Riley - Control

Best Supporting Actress

Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There

• Bae Doona - Linda Linda Linda
• Allison Janney - Juno
• Margo Martindale - Paris, Je T'Aime
• Aurora Quattrocchi - Golden Door
• Adrienne Shelly - Waitress

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Dano - There Will Be Blood

• Mircea Andreescu - 12:08 East of Bucharest
• Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
• Kene Holliday - Great World of Sound
• J.K. Simmons - Juno
• Steve Zahn - Rescue Dawn

Best Original Screenplay

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck - The Lives of Others

• Hal Hartley - Fay Grim
• Emanuele Crialese - Golden Door
• Diablo Cody - Juno
• Kōsuke Mukai, Wakako Miyashita and Nobuhiro Yamashita - Linda Linda Linda

Best Adapted Screenplay

Sarah Polley - Away from Her

• Ronald Harwood - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
• Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud - Persepolis
• Paul Thomas Anderson - There Will Be Blood

Best Visual Design

Pan's Labyrinth
Paprika

• Brand Upon the Brain!
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• Persepolis
• Tears of the Black Tiger

Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast

Waitress

• Exiled
• The Host
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Linda Linda Linda
• No Country for Old Men

Best Documentary

Protagonist

• Helvetica
• The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
• Kurt Cobain: About a Son
• Lake of Fire
• No End in Sight

Best Short Film (Chlotrudis Award)

• Girls Room [1]

Best Short Film (Audience Award)

• Fish, But No Cigar [2]

Career So Far Award

• Alberta Watson

External links

• 14th Annual Chlotrudis Awards (March 30, 2008)

References

1. ^ Brokaw, Leslie, The Boston Globe, March 30, 2008, p. N10