The nominees for the 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards were announced this morning by At the Movies hosts Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz. Considered the first major awards show of 2009, the Broadcast Film Critics Association event will be broadcast live on VH1 from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on Thursday, January 8, 2009.

Best Picture

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

Best Actor

• 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

Best Actress

• 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

Best Supporting Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

• 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

Best Acting Ensemble

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

Best Director

• 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

Best Writer (Original or Adapted Screenplay)

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

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Young Actor/Actress (Under 21)

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

Best Action Movie

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

Best Comedy

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

Best Picture Made For Television

• John Adams
• Recount
• Coco Chanel

Best Foreign Language Film

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

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Song

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

Best Composer

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