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'Milk' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' lead the pack with eight nods each for the 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards, while Clint Eastwood collects two nods for Best Actor and Best Composer.

• Dec 10, 2008

AceShowbiz - On Tuesday, December 9, the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has unveiled their selections of movies and performers to compete in the 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards. Through the press conference at the MTV Network studios in Times Square, it is revealed that both "Milk" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" have shown strong domination with eight nominations for the awards.

The two drama movies will be up against each other in five categories, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writer, Best Composer, Best Acting Ensemble and Best Actor, Sean Penn for "Milk" and Brad Pitt for "Benjamin Button". Beside those nods, "Milk" has also given two Best Supporting Actor gongs for James Franco and Josh Brolin, while "Benjamin Button" lands Best Actress count for Cate Blanchett and Best Supporting Actress nomination for Taraji P. Henson.

Announced by Academy Award-nominated actress Rosie Perez, "At the Movies" hosts, Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz, and VH1 President Tom Calderone, the unraveling of the Critics' Choice Awards contenders also sees "The Dark Knight", "Doubt" and "Slumdog Millionaire" collecting six nominations each. In addition, actor-turned-director Clint Eastwood receives Best Actor nomination for his performance on "Gran Torino" and Best Composer gong for "Changeling".

Winners of the 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards will be announced on a gala on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. The ceremony will be once again broadcast live by VH1 at 9:00 P.M. (ET/PT). The network will also air a preshow entitled "14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Red Carpet Premiere Featuring Maria Menounos" at 8 P.M. (ET/PT). The preshow will also be streamed live on VH1.com.

Full nominees list of the 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards:

Best Picture:

• "Changeling"
• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• "The Dark Knight"
• "Doubt"
• "Frost/Nixon"
• "Milk"
• "The Reader"
• "Slumdog Millionaire"
• "Wall-E"
• "The Wrestler"

• "Bolt"
• "Kung Fu Panda"
• "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"
• "Wall-E"
• "Waltz With Bashir"

• "The Dark Knight"
• "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
• "Iron Man"
• "Quantum of Solace"
• "Wanted (2008)"

• "Burn After Reading"
• "Forgetting Sarah Marshall"
• "Role Models"
• "Tropic Thunder"
• "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"

• Clint Eastwood, "Gran Torino"
• Richard Jenkins, "The Visitor"
• Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon"
• Sean Penn, "Milk"
• Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"

• Kate Beckinsale, "Nothing But the Truth"
• Cate Blanchett, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married"
• Angelina Jolie, "Changeling"
• Melissa Leo, "Frozen River"
• Meryl Streep, "Doubt"

• Josh Brolin, "Milk"
• Robert Downey Jr., "Tropic Thunder"
• Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Doubt"
• Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
• James Franco, "Milk"

• Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
• Viola Davis, "Doubt"
• Vera Farmiga, "Nothing But the Truth"
• Taraji P. Henson, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"
• Kate Winslet, "The Reader"

• Dakota Fanning, "The Secret Life of Bees"
• David Kross, "The Reader"
• Dev Patel, "Slumdog Millionaire"
• Brandon Walters, "Australia"

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• "The Dark Knight"
• "Doubt"
• "Milk"
• "Rachel Getting Married"

• Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
• David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• Ron Howard, "Frost/Nixon"
• Christopher Nolan, "The Dark Knight"
• Gus Van Sant, "Milk"

• Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire"
• Dustin Lance Black, "Milk"
• Peter Morgan, "Frost/Nixon"
• Eric Roth, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• John Patrick Shanley, "Doubt"

• "Another Way to Die" (performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, written by Jack White), "Quantum of Solace"
• "Down to Earth" (performed by Peter Gabriel, written by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman), "Wall-E"
• "I Thought I Lost You" (performed Miley Cyrus and John Travolta, written by Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele), "Bolt"
• "Jaiho" (performed by Sukhwinder Singh, written by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar), "Slumdog Millionaire"
• "The Wrestler" (performed by Bruce Springsteen, written by Bruce Springsteen), "The Wrestler"

• Alexandre Desplat, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
• Clint Eastwood, "Changeling"
• Danny Elfman, "Milk"
• Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard, "The Dark Knight"
• A.R. Rahman, "Slumdog Millionaire"

• "John Adams"
• "Recount"
• "Coco Chanel"

• "A Christmas Tale"
• "Gomorrah"
• "I've Loved You So Long"
• "Let the Right One In"
• "Mongol"
• "Waltz With Bashir"

• "I.O.U.S.A."
• "Man On Wire"
• "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired"
• "Standard Operating Procedure"
• "Young At Heart"