2009 NOMINEES
Winner; *runner-up

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
	THE DARK KNIGHT
	LET THE RIGHT ONE IN
	REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
	SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
	WALL-E*

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE DARK KNIGHT (Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David Goyer)	HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (Mike Leigh)	MILK* (Dustin Lance Black)	VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (Woody Allen)	WALL-E (Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Jim Reardon)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
MILK (Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, James Franco, Alison Pill, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare, Joseph Cross, Stephen Spinella)	RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mather Zickel, Bill Irwin, Anna Deavere Smith, Anisa George, Tunde Adebimpe, Debra Winger, Fab 5 Freddy)	SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor, Saurabh Shukla, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail, Ayush Mahesh Khedakar, Rubiana Ali, Tanay Chheda, Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala, Tanvi Ganesh Lonkar, Mahesh Manjrekar)	THE DARK KNIGHT (Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Eric Roberts, Anthony Michael Hall)	TROPIC THUNDER* (Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Brandon T. Jackson, Bill Hader, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise)

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A BIT PART OR CAMEO
Mia Farrow, BE KIND REWIND	Lucy, WENDY AND LUCY	Jane Lynch, ROLE MODELS	Alison Pill, MILK	Elisabeth Shue, HAMLET 2	Mia Souteriou, MAMMA MIA!*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penélope Cruz, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA*	Viola Davis, DOUBT	Ari Graynor, NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST	Marisa Tomei, THE WRESTLER	Julie Walters, MAMMA MIA!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Russell Brand, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL	Robert Downey Jr., TROPIC THUNDER	Bill Irwin, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED*	Brad Pitt, BURN AFTER READING	Michael Shannon, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

BEST ACTOR
Heath Ledger, THE DARK KNIGHT	Dev Patel, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE	Sean Penn, MILK	Seth Rogen, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS	Mickey Rourke, THE WRESTLER*	Jeffrey Wright, CADILLAC RECORDS

ACTOR WITH WHOM YOU MOST WANT TO GET IT ON
Javier Bardem, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA	Dominic Cooper, MAMMA MIA!	Robert Downey Jr., IRON MAN	James Franco, MILK*	Robert Pattinson, TWILIGHT

ACTRESS WITH WHOM YOU MOST WANT TO GET IT ON
Kristen Bell, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL	Emanuelle Chriqui, YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN	Penélope Cruz, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA	Kat Dennings, NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST*	Anna Faris, THE HOUSE BUNNY	Mila Kunis, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL

BEST DIRECTOR
Tomas Alfredson, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN	Woody Allen, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA	Danny Boyle, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE	Christopher Nolan, THE DARK KNIGHT*	Gus Van Sant, MILK	Andrew Stanton, WALL-E

WORST FUCKING THING
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON	FOUR CHRISTMASES	THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE	INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL*	REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

BEST PICTURE
THE DARK KNIGHT*	LET THE RIGHT ONE IN	MAMMA MIA!	MILK	WALL-E

SPECIAL JURY PRIZES
These awards are not voted on by the Virtual Crib, but are given out by the Cribbies administration based on voting patterns Cribwide.

The Tristram Shandy Award for Best Original Adapted Screenplay
SON OF RAMBOW

The Amy Poehler Prize for Hotness Unrecognized By You Assholes
Jeffrey Wright, CADILLAC RECORDS

The Paul Rusesabagina Prize for the Best Movie California Voters Should Have Watched a Year Ago
MILK

The Jay and Silent Bob Prize for Overabundance of Cameos
William Baldwin, Jason Bateman, Billy Bush, Carla Gallo, Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL 

The Revolutionary Button Award for Awesome Acting in a Bad Movie
Cate Blanchett, Jared Harris, Taraji P. Henson, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zoe Kazan, Michael Shannon, Kate Winslet, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

HALL OF AWESOME INDUCTEES

	TINA FEY
	MIKE LEIGH
	HARRY DEAN STANTON

THE CRIBBIES CANON INDUCTEES

THE BIG LEBOWSKI 1999: 2 nominations, 0 wins

PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE Inducted 2009

SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE Inducted 2009

CRIBBIES OFFICIALLY GAY
'Milk,' 'Mamma Mia!' Lead Nominations; 'Slumdog' Spurned  

The Virtual Crib came out of the collective closet today as the Eleventh Annual Cribbie Nominations, Celebrating Achievement in Filmmaking, Acting and Hotness, were announced. Leading the rainbow-flag-waving pack was Gus Van Sant's biopic MILK, which received seven nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. Just behind MILK was MAMMA MIA!, the ABBAthon musical, which danced its way to five nominations, including Best Picture. Beefcake was supplied by THE DARK KNIGHT, which, though spurned by the Oscars, was embraced by the Cribbies, earning six noms, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for the late Heath Ledger, who is also considered by Cribbies insiders a lock for the Hall of Awesome.

  This year's nominations were evenly spread out, with factions of the Virtual Crib pushing their favorites into contention. Movies with strong, localized support included the other two Best Picture nominees: Pixar's WALL-E and, in a shocker, the Swedish teenage vampire thriller LET THE RIGHT ONE IN. Also beloved by small groups of Virtual Cribbers were the teen comedy NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST; Mike Leigh's HAPPY-GO-LUCKY; and this year's best Judd Apatow-related movie, FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, which garnered three nominations, including two in the coveted Get It On categories.

This year's Cribbies nominations could be viewed as a sharp rebuke to the Academy; only one Oscar nominee for Best Picture was nominated for the equivalent Cribbie, and Academy darling SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, while garnering five Cribbie noms, was left off the Best Picture ballot. Meanwhile, fellow Oscar nominee for Best Picture THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON was nominated for Worst Fucking Thing, alongside THE HOTTIE AND THE NOTTIE, which no one even saw.

A total of 37 films were nominated for Cribbies, an impressive total considering how everyone spent the entire nomination period bitching about how they didn't see any movies. Other films that performed well in today's nominations included VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA, with five nods, including Best Director; YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN, with three noms, including one in the coveted Get It On category; and REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, nominated for three Cribbies. Celebration among the cast members of REVOLUTIONARY ROAD was subdued, however, when it was later learned that the movie had also been nominated for Worst Fucking Thing.

Some surprising nominations include Best Music nominations for Steven Soderbergh's eleven-hour epic CHE and the documentary WE ARE WIZARDS, as well as a Supporting Actor nomination for the comedian Russell Brand, in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL. Three actors followed in the Cribbie tradition of being nominated for Best Bit Part for playing a nonhuman: Mark Walton, as the guinea pig in BOLT, Seth MacFarlane, as the noncorporeal detective in HELLBOY II, and Lucy, as Lucy in WENDY AND LUCY. With her nomination for Best Actress for REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, Kate Winslet maintains her position as the second-most nominated person in Cribbies history, with 11 lifetime nominations.

  Among the 15 nominees for inclusion in the Cribbies Hall of Awesome are Tina Fey, Harry Dean Stanton, Jeffrey Wright, and Lyra Smith Kois. Films up for consideration to be added to the Cribbies Canon include BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, QUICK CHANGE, THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, and two movies from 2008 that apparently no one saw: MAN ON WIRE and GHOST TOWN.

So now, it's time to vote! An official ballot will follow this press release. Send Dan your votes before the night of TUESDAY, MARCH 31 at MIDNIGHT. That gives you almost an entire month to see movies and vote!

Thanks to all of you who sent in your nominations. Even if you didn't have a chance to nominate anything, though, PLEASE be sure to vote! It's your participation that makes this fun. And feel free, everyone, to campaign for your favorites -- though it would be swell to keep the family-threatening to a minimum.