Best Picture: The Dark Knight (runner-up: Rachel Getting Married)
Best Achievement in Directing: Andrew Stanton, WALL-E (runner-up: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight)
Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Male: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (runners-up: Richard Jenkins, The Visitor; Sean Penn, Milk)
Best Lead Performance by an Actor, Female: Melissa Leo, Frozen River (runner-up: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married)
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Male: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
(no runner-up)
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor, Female: Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married (runners-up: Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading; Misty Upham, Frozen River; Evan Rachel Wood, The Wrestler)
Best Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married (runner-up: Robert Siegel, The Wrestler)
Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire (runners-up: Encounters at the End of the World; Waltz with Bashir)
Best Non-English Language Feature: Let the Right One In (runner-up: Waltz with Bashir)
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E (runner-up: Kung Fu Panda)