TOP 20:   1Atonement 2The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen

3 Days of Glory/Indigenes

4 Zodiac

5 Across the Universe

6 The Bourne Ultimatum

7 Half Nelson

8 This Is England

9 Once

10 Garage

11 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

12 Letters From Iwo Jima

13 Away From Her

14 Knocked Up

15 Ratatouille

16 Hairspray

17 I'm Not There

18 Tell No One/Ne le Dis à Personne

19 Into the Wild

20 The Darjeeling Limited

NEAR MISSES:Rescue Dawn, The Witnesses/Les Témoins, Control, Breach, Kings, Small Engine Repair, After the Wedding, Jindabyne, Bobby, Dreamgirls, Notes on a Scandal. Hallam Foe, Waitress, Eastern Promises, The Namesake, 300

WORST FILMS OF THE YEAR

1 Youth Without Youth

2 Southland Tales

3 The Number 23

4 Captivity

5 The Kingdom

6 Employee of the Month

7 Mr Brooks

8 Mr Bean's Holiday

9 The Messengers

10 Death Proof

OTHER HIGHS AND LOWS

Director of the year:Joe Wright, Atonement

New director of the year:Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others

Documentary of the year:Stephen Kijak's Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

Animated feature of the year:Brad Bird's Ratatouille

Irish film of the year:John Carney's Once

Irish director of the year:Lenny Abrahamson, Garage

New Irish director of the year:Niall Heery, Small Engine Repair

Best actress:Julie Christie, Away From Her

Best actor:(tie) Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others; James McAvoy, Atonement

Best supporting actor:Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Best supporting actress:Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There

Most promising new actress:Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Most promising new actor:Sam Riley, Control

Best Irish actor:Peter O'Toole, Venus

Best Irish actress:Bríd Ní Neachtain, Cré na Cille

Best supporting Irish actor:Brendan Conroy, Kings

Best supporting Irish actress:Joan O'Hara, How About You

Most promising Irish actress:Saoirse Ronan, Atonement

Most promising Irish actor:Andrew Simpson, Notes on a Scandal

Irish screenwriter of the year:Mark O'Halloran, Garage

Best original screenplay:Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, The Lives of Others

Best adapted screenplay:Christopher Hampton, Atonement

Best cinematography:Seamus McGarvey, Atonement

Best film editing:Christopher Rouse, The Bourne Ultimatum

Best original score:Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, Once

Best art direction:Donald Graham Burt, Zodiac

Best costume design:Albert Wolsky, Across the Universe

Best visual effects:300

Best sound:The Bourne Ultimatum

Best TV drama:John Crowley's Boy A

Best TV mini-series:Saul Dibb's The Line of Beauty

Gaffe of the year:The decision of the Cannes jury not to give any prize to Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men.

Most underrated film:Julie Traymor's Across the Universe

Most overrated film:Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel

Most gratuitously violent and sadistic film:Mel Gibson's Apocalypto

Most pretentious film:Darren Aronovsky's The Fountain

Most tiresomely self- indulgent film:Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof

Worst actor:(tie) Tim Roth, Youth Without Youth; Gerard Butler, PS I Love You

Worst actress:Sarah Michelle Gellar, Southland Tales

Worst film:Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth