Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner Thursday at the
Critics' Choice Awards, taking home the trophy for Best Picture as well as several other awards. The film won five awards in all, including trophies for its director, star, and composer.
Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep tied in the Best Actress category, with Hathaway winning for
Rachel Getting Married and Streep for
Doubt.

Christian Bale and Aaron Eckhart proudly showed off their trophies after
The Dark Knight took home five out of five
People's Choice Awards last night, including Best Movie of the Year. The film will be up for more honors tonight at the
Critics' Choice Awards and again on Sunday at the
Golden Globes. We'll have to wait a few more weeks to hear about
Oscar nods, but tell us — do you think
The Dark Knight will sweep the awards it's nominated for?

Stars of the big and small screen got glam for the
People's Choice Awards in LA last night. Carrie Underwood won three awards, and Paris Hilton and Jewel won me over with their pretty dresses.
Nominees announcer Joshua Jackson wasn't in attendance unfortunately, but there were lots of other gorgeous guys to feast our eyes on.
The Dark Knight's crazy
box office success translated into a whole bundle of
People's Choice Awards on Wednesday night. The film took home the trophies for Favorite Movie, Favorite Action Movie, and Favorite Cast, and Christian Bale also won Favorite Superhero and part of the Favorite On-Screen Matchup award (shared with the late Heath Ledger).
Carrie Underwood was another big winner of the night, taking home three awards — including the Favorite Star Under 35 trophy.

This month, as part of my
Best of 2008 coverage, I'm going to look back at some of the entertainment world's big headlines. The first one on my list
was the writers' strike. Today I'm going back to the year's biggest hit movie:
The Dark Knight.

All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and
Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to my picks below, you can also bring home the complete series of
The Wire (one of my
must haves for the month) as well as
Deadwood in its entirety.

Welcome back to my
Buzz Gift Guide series for all the entertainment lovers in your life. Yesterday I entertained myself, actually, by sorting through all the
great pop culture-related t-shirts I'd love to get for the men in my life, and today I'm tackling a bigger project for the guys: the best in music, books, TV, and movies of 2008.
Now, this is by no means a definitive list of the best entertainment stuff that came this year.