2008 Best Animation: Horizon Diner

Ever wanted to visit a diner at the center of the universe? Waiting to place his order at a tiny greasy spoon, bookish Albert loses patience and sets out Read more

2008 Best Sci-Fi: Singularity

A factory server malfunctions. Two factory workers find a line of code that no programmer placed in the machine. With millions of dollars and the continued operation of the plant Read more

2008 Best Foreign: LORA

Three years ago Lora was a happy young woman, in love with boyfriend David, a trendy restaurant owner, and enjoying her work in a museum. Her life suddenly turned upside Read more

2008 Best Feature Documentary: Xaviera Hollander

XAVIERA HOLLANDER, 'THE HAPPY HOOKER': PORTRAIT OF A SEXUAL REVOLUTIONARY is a documentary about one of the world's most important sexual icons. Interviews with Larry King and commentary from America's Read more

2008 Best Short Documentary: Digital Pamphleteer

Like the 18th century pamphleteers, today's political bloggers are cutting through the clutter of main stream media spin and communicating directly with their audience. This short doc focuses on Steve Read more

2008 Best First Time Director: Public Interest

As the 1990s gave way to the new millennium, the state of television was undergoing a radical change. Realty television had taken over the airwaves as actors and scripts began Read more

2008 Best Horror: Mind Flesh

Chris Jackson is a gateway for obsessions to pass from the mind to the physical world. When the girl of his dreams becomes a nightmare in flesh and blood, Read more

2008 Best Feature: Wherever You Are

A day that starts like any other turns out to be one family’s painful, day-long journey of self-realization. Wherever You Are chronicles the hapless Bernstein family: Nancy (Jane Adams), Ira Read more

2008 Best Comedy: The Dueling Accountant

Mungo MacDiamond is a lonely accountant without any excitement in his life -- but that's about to change... One day a legendary dying Hungarian billionaire presents Mungo and his colleagues Read more

2008 Best Short: Dobre Doshli Na Zemiata- Welcome to Earth

A man ends up a world after death. An female employee reassures him that nothing special changed and puts him under a test in order to destine his fate in Read more

2008 Best Director: Benh Zeitlin (Glory at Sea)

A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath Read more

2008 Audience Choice: Left/Right

Left/Right is a coming-of-age comedy that follows D. Ray Morton, a small-town have-not who has grown up to be a conspicuous, big-city socialite. But after a human resource audit reveals Read more

2008 Best Music Documentary: Wayout

WAYout looks at the music industry in Sierra Leone after 11 years of war. It is seen by many young people as the only way out and has been used Read more

2008 Best Political Documentary: Killer at Large

Obesity rates in the United States have reached epidemic proportions in recent years. The Centers for Disease Control estimate that at least 110,000 people die per year due to obesity Read more

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