The Critics Choice Awards have taken place in California with Brit-flick Kate Winslet won Best Supporting Actress for The Reader while Richard Gere picked up a special award for his charity work.

Critics Choice Awards 2009 | Full List Of Nominees & Winners:

BEST PICTURE
* Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Wrestler
BEST ACTOR
* Sean Penn - Milk
Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
BEST ACTRESS - TIE
* Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
* Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
* Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
James Franco - Milk
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
* Kate Winslet - The Reader
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
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
* Milk
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
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

* Wall-E

Bolt

Kung Fu Panda

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Waltz With Bashir

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)

* Dev Petal - Slumdog Millionaire

Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees

David Kross - The Reader

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

* Tropic Thunder

Burn After Reading

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Role Models

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

* John Adams

Recount

Coco Chanel

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

* Waltz With Bashir

A Christmas Tale

Gomorrah

I've Loved You So Long

Let the Right One In

Mongol

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

* Man On Wire

I.O.U.S.A.

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Standard Operating Procedure

Young At Heart

BEST SONG

* "The Wrestler" - Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler

"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

BEST COMPOSER

* A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire

Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Clint Eastwood - Changeling

Danny Elfman - Milk

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight