VH1's 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Announces This Year's Presenters

VH1's 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Announces This Year's Presenters

BEST ACTRESS NOMINEE KATE BECKINSALE, BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR AND ACTRESS NOMINEES JOSH BROLIN AND MARISA TOMEI AND ACADEMY AWARD(R) WINNING ACTORS DUSTIN HOFFMAN AND FOREST WHITAKER ARE AMONG THE MANY PRESENTERS FOR THIS STAR-STUDDED SHOW

GALA AWARDS CEREMONY WILL BROADCAST LIVE ON VH1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2009 AT 9:00 PM (ET/PT)

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced today some of this year's presenters for the 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 8, 2009. The 2009 presenters include Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Banks, Kate Beckinsale, Kristen Bell, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Josh Brolin, Rosemarie DeWitt, Aaron Eckhart, Dakota Fanning, Dustin Hoffman, Eva Longoria, Virginia Madsen, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Marisa Tomei, and Forest Whitaker. The awards show will feature the rock band Rooney as this year's house band.

"We are truly honored to have such a talented and charismatic group of presenters," said BFCA president Joey Berlin. "The Critics' Choice Awards kicks off the awards season and this year's show is going to be our best ever."

The largest film critics' organization with more than 200 members in the United States and Canada on television, radio and the Internet, the BFCA selected nominees for awards in each of 17 categories. The Critics' Choice Awards were created by the BFCA to recognize excellence in cinematic achievement. Eligible films were released in 2008. The accounting firm of Gregory A. Mogab tallied the written ballots. Historically, the Critics' Choice Awards are the most accurate predictor of the Academy Award nominations.

Counting down to the LIVE premiere of the Critics' Choice Awards, VH1 will air the "14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards Red Carpet Premiere Featuring Maria Menounos" pre-show LIVE on Thursday, January 8 at 8pm (ET/PT). Covering the excitement of the celebrity arrivals on the red carpet will be "KTLA Morning News" entertainment reporter Sam Rubin and No Good TV's Carrie Keagan. Interspersed throughout the red carpet arrivals will be pre-taped interviews with NBC and Access Hollywood's Maria Menounos as she sits down and speaks with some of today's hottest stars. The pre-show will be available on http://criticschoice.vh1.com/ later that evening.

VH1's "Critics' Choice Awards" site http://criticschoice.vh1.com/, will be home to detailed information about the awards and will provide a forum for users to comment on this year's nominees. In the weeks leading up to the premiere VH1.com is asking users to express their opinions on who they would pick to win the major categories online via user comments and opinion polls. This information will be fed to an online ticker that will run during the red carpet special and the poll results will be included in bumpers during the broadcast of the show. VH1.com will also have a live blog running during the show and post show, commenting on all the celebrities and excitement. Exclusive video footage from the event will include celebrity interviews, red carpet footage and more. Additional multiplatform plans will be announced in the coming weeks. The 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards are sponsored by Wal-Mart, AT&T and Crest Whitening Expressions.

The 14th Annual Critics' Choice Awards is executive produced by Bob Bain for Bob Bain Productions, Joey Berlin for Berlin Entertainment and Lee Rolontz for VH1.

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If you have any questions, please contact Jamie Falkowitz or Kelly Krause of mPRm Public Relations at (323) 933-3399.

   NOMINEES FOR THE 14TH ANNUAL CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS    Top Nods Go to:    Milk (Eight Nominations)  

Best Picture, Best Actor, Two Best Supporting Actor Nominations, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director, Best Writer, and Best Composer

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Eight Nominations)

Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director, Best Writer, and Best Composer

The Dark Knight (Six Nominations)

Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director, Best Action Movie, and Best Composer

Doubt (Six Nominations)

Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Acting Ensemble and Best Writer

Slumdog Millionaire (Six Nominations)

Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writer, Best Young Actor/Actress, Best Song, and Best Composer

   BEST PICTURE   Changeling   The Curious Case of Benjamin Button   The Dark Knight   Doubt   Frost/Nixon   Milk   The Reader   Slumdog Millionaire   Wall-E   The Wrestler    BEST 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    BEST 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    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR   Josh Brolin - Milk   Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder   Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt   Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight   James Franco - Milk    BEST 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 Wrestler   Kate Winslet - The Reader    BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE   The Curious Case of Benjamin Button   The Dark Knight   Doubt   Milk   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   Bolt   Kung Fu Panda   Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa   Wall-E   Waltz With Bashir    BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS (Under 21)   Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees   David Kross - The Reader   Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire   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   Burn After Reading   Forgetting Sarah Marshall   Role Models   Tropic Thunder   Vicky Cristina Barcelona    BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION   "John Adams"   "Recount"   "Coco Chanel"    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM   A Christmas Tale   Gomorrah   I've Loved You So Long   Let the Right One In   Mongol   Waltz With Bashir    BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE   I.O.U.S.A.   Man On Wire   Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired   Standard Operating Procedure   Young At Heart    BEST SONG  

"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   "The Wrestler" - Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler    BEST COMPOSER   Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button   Clint Eastwood - Changeling   Danny Elfman - Milk   Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight   A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire     Contacts:   Lori Bogin/VH1                         Scott Acord/VH1   212-846-7131                           310-752-8075   lori.bogin@vh1staff.com                scott.acord@vh1staff.com    Jamie Falkowitz/Kelly Krause   323-933-3399   CCA@mprm.com  

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Web Site: http://criticschoice.vh1.com/

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