2008 Top Ten List (in progress)

Best Lead Performance
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Sean Penn, Milk
Guillaume Depardieu, The Duchess of Langeais
Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon
Colin Farrell, In Bruges
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Julianne Moore, Savage Grace
Jason Segel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Anna Faris, Smiley Face
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Synecdoche, New York
Jeanne Balibar, The Duchess of Langeais
Vera Farmiga, Quid Pro Quo
Michael Pitt, Funny Games
Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Naomi Watts, Funny Games
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Southland Tales
Asa Butterfield, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Sam Rockwell, Snow Angels
Josh Peck, The Wackness

Best Supporting Performance
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Sarah Michelle Gellar, Southland Tales
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Russell Brand, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Justin Long, Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Emile Hirsch, Milk
Samantha Morton, Synecdoche, New York
Hope Davis, Synecdoche, New York
Emily Watson, Synecdoche, New York
(tie)	Richard Jenkins, Burn After Reading
	Brad Pitt, Burn After Reading
	Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Love Songs
Lina Leandersson, Let the Right One In
Ralph Fiennes, In Bruges
Amy Adams, Doubt
Mos Def, Cadillac Records
Olivia Thirlby, The Wackness
Viola Davis, Doubt

Best Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

Best Director
Matt Reeves, Cloverfield

Best First Feature
Charlie Kaufman, Synecdoche, New York

Best Documentary
Chicago 10

1. Cloverfield (Matt Reeves)
2. There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson)
3. Love Songs (Christophe Honoré)
4. Southland Tales (Richard Kelly)
5. Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)
6. Speed Racer (The Wachowski Brothers)
7. Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Nicholas Stoller)
8. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)
9. Burn After Reading (Joel & Ethan Coen)
10. The Wackness (Jonathan Levine)

A few notes:

• I keep a list of eligible titles for 2008, which includes any film that showed commercially in Dayton, Cincinnati or Columbus; or any film that did not show in those cities and was released on DVD or some other format for home viewing (those titles are not shown on the eligibility list). For example: There Will Be Blood is eligible for this year's list, because it didn't open in the area until mid-January. Likewise, Southland Tales is eligible for this year's list, because it never opened commercially here, and the DVD was released this year.
• George Ratliff's terrifying Joshua should've appeared on this year's list in position #5, but due to a clerical error it appeared on my 2007 list. (It never opened commercially here, and the DVD didn't come out until January 8, 2008.)
• Ineligible: The Wrestler, I've Loved You So Long, Revolutionary Road, Gran Torino, Wendy and Lucy, Waltz with Bashir, Silent Light, countless others
• Didn't see (but trying to before year's end): A Christmas Tale, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Shotgun Stories, Stuck, Inside, Control, The Counterfeiters, The Last Mistress, Before the Rains, Chop Shop, Mister Lonely, Before I Forget, Woman on the Beach, Boy A, Still Life, countless others
• Didn't see (and likely won't for a while): Australia, Role Models, A Girl Cut in Two, The Edge of Heaven, Frozen River, Roman de Gare, Pineapple Express, The Midnight Meat Train

• List of eligible titles

• Previous top ten lists (1999-2006), 2007