Film Junk 2008 Reader’s Choice Award Winners

Posted by on December 30th, 2008   Filed under: Features, Lists, Polls

Here they are folks, the results of the 3rd annual Film Junk Reader’s Choice Awards! Once again, a whole lot of you voiced your opinions and picked the best movies of the year, and the results were pretty interesting. Most of the categories were extremely tight, but there were a few that ended up being an absolute blow-out (Best Animated was to be expected, but I thought the Comic Book category would have been a bit closer than it actually was).

Anyway, without any further adieu, you can now examine the full list of winners below. Do you disagree with any of the choices? Well, too bad, because you picked them!

Best Comedy

Nominees: Step Brothers, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express, Burn After Reading, Tropic Thunder
Winner: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Runner-Up: Pineapple Express

Best Horror

Nominees: The Strangers, Saw V, Cloverfield, The Ruins, The Orphanage
Winner: Cloverfield
Runner-Up: The Orphanage

Best Thriller

Nominees: In Bruges, The Bank Job, Transsiberian, Lakeview Terrace, Body of Lies
Winner: In Bruges
Runner-Up: Transsiberian

Best Action

Nominees: Rambo, Doomsday, Quantum of Solace, Hancock, The Forbidden Kingdom
Winner: Quantum of Solace
Runner-Up: Rambo

Best Animated

Nominees: WALL-E, Horton Hears a Who!, Bolt, Kung Fu Panda, Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Winner: WALL-E
Runner-Up: Kung Fu Panda

Best Comic Book

Nominees: Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Wanted, Incredible Hulk, Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Winner: The Dark Knight
Runner-Up: Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Nominees: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull , Jumper, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Twilight, Speed Racer
Winner: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Runner-Up: Speed Racer

Best Documentary

Nominees: Standard Operating Procedure, Young @ Heart, Man on Wire, Religulous, Bigger, Stronger, Faster
Winner: Man on Wire
Runner-Up: Religulous

Best Indie

Nominees: Rachel Getting Married, Son of Rambow, The Signal, Synecdoche, New York, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Winner: Son of Rambow
Runner-Up: Synecdoche, New York

Best Foreign

Nominees: JCVD, Slumdog Millionaire, Let The Right One In, Mongol, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-Up: Let The Right One In

Best Drama

Nominees: Australia, Changeling, Milk, W., Appaloosa
Winner: Milk
Runner-Up: Appaloosa / W.

Most Anticipated December Movie

Nominees: The Spirit, Frost/Nixon, Valkyrie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Gran Torino
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Runner-Up: Valkyrie

Best Film of the Year

Winner: The Dark Knight
Runners-Up: WALL-E, Milk

Biggest Surprise

Winner: Speed Racer
Runners-Up: In Bruges, The Dark Knight, Iron Man

Biggest Disappointment

Winner: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Runners-Up: Hancock, Quantum of Solace, Pineapple Express

Want to see the winners from previous years? Here you go:



  • is slumdog millionaire a foreign film?
    what really makes a film “foreign” ?
    are all us films foreign to canadians?
    i think the catagorey is stupid.
    a film is a film anywhere its made.
    and if its a matter of language, would JCVD not be foreign flick in those parts of canada that speak french as their primary language?
    its all confusing and a bit nationalistic, i propose it be stricken from all future catagorical film voting systems.

  • Colin

    There is never going to be a ‘best of’ list that we all agree on, but I think this one shows how some categories had didn’t have much to shout about. Best Scifi/Fantasy goes to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, yet it also manages to scoop up the ‘Biggest Disappointment’ award. Forgetting Sarah Marshall is considered to be the best comedy and yet it was hardly a chortle fest, but still admittedly better than the one laugh an hour of Pineapple Express.
    Overall I get the feeling that the year started with a torrent of great releases, but then towards the end of the year this turned into a dribble of slightly better than rubbish releases.

  • Who voted for RAMBO to make it a runner up? Really!? Rambo is better than Doomsday or Hancock?

    Also, I didn’t even consider “Slumdog” to be foreign. I suppose it is sort of, but people need to get out and see “4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days.” They’ll be emailing Sean frantically demanding to change their vote.

  • twililghtfox

    The Dark Knight shouldn’t have the best film of the year award. I’m tired of everyone making such a big deal out of a movie that really didn’t bring that much to the table. Don’t get me wrong I loved it, but there’s other movies that were much better.

  • I’ll admit that I was kind of “winging it” with the different categories, but the foreign film category was based on movies that were non-English language, and also produced outside of the U.S. Slumdog Millionaire is a U.K. production and half in Hindi language, while JCVD is a Belgian/French production.

  • “Rambo is better than Doomsday or Hancock?”

    Rambo was better than every other film on that list.

  • Goon

    Go Speed Racer, Go!