New York. 2008 Culture Awards.

"So let us now praise Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder and Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight by saying that we were thrilled to witness perfectly controlled pieces of work by actors who knew exactly how to calibrate what they were doing." New York picks its favorites in dozens of categories, and for all the praise lavished on those two gentlemen, the "Best Performance By an Actor," they decide, is actually a different pair: Kate Winslet's turns in Revolutionary Road and The Reader.

Topping David Edelstein's list of the "Top Ten Films" of the year, though, is Rachel Getting Married. And here's the gateway to all the magazine's "Culture Awards."

Posted by dwhudson at December 8, 2008 12:44 AM