**THE 2008 PROGIES NOMINEES FOR BEST PROGRESSIVE PICTURES**

1. THE TRUMBO: The Progie Award for BEST PROGRESSIVE PICTURE is named after Oscar-winning screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, a member of the Hollywood Ten, who was imprisoned for his beliefs and refusing to inform. Trumbo helped break the Blacklist when he received screen credit for "Spartacus" and "Exodus" in 1960.

BATTLE IN SEATTLE
CHE
MILK
THE VISITOR
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
WENDY AND LUCY


2. THE GARFIELD: The Progie Award for BEST ACTOR is named after John Garfield, who rose from the proletarian theatre to star in progressive pictures such as "Gentleman's Agreement" and "Force of Evil," only to run afoul of the Hollywood Blacklist.

JOSH BROLIN (W.)
BENICIO DEL TORO (CHE)
RICHARD JENKINS (THE VISITOR)
FRANK LANGELLA (FROST/NIXON)
SEAN PENN (MILK)


3. KAREN MORLEY AWARD: For BEST ACTRESS. Named for Karen Morley, who was driven out of Hollywood in the 1930s for her leftist views, but who maintained her militant political activism for the rest of her life, running for Lieutenant Governor on the American Labor Party ticket in 1954. She passed away in 2003, unrepentant to the end, at the age of 93.

SALLY HAWKINS (HAPPY-GO-LUCKY)
ANGELINA JOLIE (CHANGELING)
MELISSA LEO (FROZEN RIVER)
MICHELLE WILLIAMS (WENDY AND LUCY)
KATE WINSLET (REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, THE READER)


4. THE RENOIR: The Progie Award for BEST ANTI-WAR FILM is named after the great French filmmaker Jean Renoir, who directed the 1937 anti-militarism masterpiece "Grand Illusion."

BODY OF WAR
THE LUCKY ONES
STOP-LOSS
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
WAR, INC.


5. THE GILLO: The Progie Award for BEST PROGRESSIVE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM is named after the Italian director Gillo Pontecorvo, who lensed the 1960s classics "The Battle of Algiers" and "Burn!"

CHE
THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
TAKE OUT [Shih-Ching Tsou]
WALTZ WITH BASHIR
THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION


6. THE DZIGA: The Progie Award for BEST PROGRESSIVE DOCUMENTARY is named after the Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, who directed 1920s nonfiction films such as the "Kino Pravda" ("Film Truth") series and "The Man With the Movie Camera."

BODY OF WAR
RELIGULOUS
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE
TROUBLE THE WATER
TRUMBO


7. ADRIENNE SHELLY AWARD: Named after brutally slain young actress, Adrienne Shelly. For the movie this year most opposing violence against women.

BEFORE THE RAIN
CHANGELING
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS
GRAN TORINO
PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL


8. LA PASSIONARA AWARD: For the most positive female images in a movie, and in light of the historically demeaning portrayal of women in movies.

CHANGELING
FROZEN RIVER
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
TROUBLE THE WATER


9. OUR DAILY BREAD AWARD: For the most positive and inspiring working class images in a movie this year.

BATTLE IN SEATTLE
THE GARDEN
KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICAN GIRL
PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND
TAKE OUT [Shih-Ching Tsou]
THE WRESTLER


10. THE ROBESON AWARD: Named after courageous performing legend, Paul Robeson. The award is for the movie that best expresses the people of color in light of the historically demeaning portrayal of them in films.

BALLAST
CADILLAC RECORDS
EXILES
MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA
TROUBLE THE WATER


11. THE BRANDO: The Progie Award for BEST PROGRESSIVE FILM ACTIVIST is named after Marlon Brando, who starred in movies such as the Black power-themed "Burn!" and 1987's anti-apartheid "A Dry White Season," and championed underdogs like the American Indian Movement offscreen.

JOHN CUSACK
DANNY GLOVER
ROBERT GREENWALD
SPIKE LEE
SEAN PENN


12. THE TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA AWARD: Named after the late legendary Cuban filmmaker. For best depicting mass popular uprising or revolutionary transformation in a movie.

BATTLE IN SEATTLE
CHE
CHICAGO 10
DEFIANCE
HUNGER


14. THE SERGEI: The Progie Award for Best Progressive LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT is named after the Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, who created Russian revolutionary classics such as 1925's "Potemkin" and 1927's "10 Days That Shook the World."

HARRY BELAFONTE
JEAN-LUC GODARD
DANNY GLOVER
KEN LOACH
PAUL NEWMAN


15. THE LAWSON: The Progie Award for BEST ANTI-FASCIST FILM this year, is named after screenwriter John Howard Lawson, one of the Hollywood Ten, who wrote Hollywood's first feature about the Spanish Civil War, 1938's "Blockade," with Henry Fonda, and anti-Nazi movies such as 1943's "Sahara," starring Humphrey Bogart.

BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
DEFIANCE
GOOD
THE READER
VALKYRIE


16. THE MODERN TIMES: The Progie Award for Best Progressive Film SATIRE is named after Charlie Chaplin, who made 1936's "Modern Times" and 1940's "The Great Dictator."

FROST/NIXON
RELIGULOUS
W.
WALL-E
WAR, INC.


17. THE ORSON: The Progie Award for BEST OVERLOOKED OR THEATRICALLY UNRELEASED [seen at festivals, or on TV or DVD only] Progressive Film is named after actor/director Orson Welles. After he directed the masterpiece "Citizen Kane" Welles had difficulty getting most of his other movies made.

FIELDS OF FUEL
THE REAL GREAT DEBATERS
A TIME TO STIR
24 CITY
WINGS OF DEFEAT


18. THE LORENTZ: The Progie Award for Best ENVIRONMENTALIST film is named after Pare Lorentz, who directed the Depression era classic documentaries "The Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River."

THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER
THE GARDEN
THE HAPPENING
WALL-E


19. THE PASOLINI: The Progie Award for Best PRO-GAY RIGHTS Film is named after Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who directed 1964's "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" and "The Decameron" and "The Canterbury Tales" in the 1970s.

CHRIS & DON
MILK
NO REGRET
SAVE ME
THE SECRETS


20. THE LENNON: The Progie Award for Best Progressive MUSICAL OR FILM ABOUT MUSIC is named after peace activist and musician John Lennon, who co-starred in the 1967 satire "How I Won the War" and the 2006 doc "The U.S. vs. John Lennon."

ANITA O'DAY: THE LIFE OF A JAZZ SINGER
CADILLAC RECORDS
THE GITS
PATTI SMITH: DREAM OF LIFE
WAR DANCE