"Milk" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" tied with eight nominations apiece for the 14th Broadcast Film Critics Assn.'s Critics Choice Awards.
Nominees for the 14th annual Critics' Choice Awards
PICTURE Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Frost/Nixon Milk The Reader Slumdog Millionaire Wall-E The Wrestler
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'
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'
SUPPORTING ACTOR Josh Brolin, 'Milk' Robert Downey, Jr., 'Tropic Thunder' Philip Seymour Hoffman, 'Doubt' Heath Ledger, 'The Dark Knight' James Franco, 'Milk'
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 Wrestle' Kate Winslet, 'The Reader'
ACTING ENSEMBLE The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Doubt Milk Rachel Getting Married
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'
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'
BLOCKBUSTER TO RENT OLDER MOVIES FOR .99 CENTS
Blockbuster, attempting to fend off determined competition from online rental outfits and kiosk operators, said Monday that it will begin renting many older movies for as little as 99 cents beginning in January.
"The 99-cents plan is targeted at the value-conscious consumer in this challenging economy," chairman and CEO Jim Keyes said at the Reuters Media Summit in New York. According to Video Business magazine, the company has also begun evaluating proprietary kiosks of its own in test locations.