Dr. Horrible, Hulu make AFI list

 

Odds-on Oscar favorite "Slumdog Millionaire," Emmy hunter/gatherer Tina Fey, ground-breaking musical webisodes from Joss Whedon and Barack Obama's historic election all have something in common, because the AFI says they do.

Members of the American Film Institute, list-makers extraordinaire, have compiled the eight "Moments of Significance in Film, TV and the Web" for 2008 and, oddly, didn't include the smack-Bush-with-a-shoe game. Oversight!

What made the grade? The aforementioned rags-to-riches-with-torture-along-the-way tale, "Slumdog," which was left off the AFI's 10 best movies of the year because it's a British, not American, production. A make good? No real criticism here, since the Mumbai-set drama deserves all the wet kisses it's getting.

Fey was honored for her Emmy-winning "30 Rock" and her scary accurate Sarah Palin impersonation on "Saturday Night Live," as was Whedon for "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" with an adorably pitch-perfect Neil Patrick Harris.

Read the rest (hint: Hulu) here.

Not to be outdone in the list-making arena, THR's film critics have chosen their best-of for '08, and it's a mixed bag of boxoffice behemoths like "The Dark Knight" and "WALL-E" along with indies "The Visitor," "Frozen River" and "Paranoid Park" and foreign-language flicks such as "The Edge of Heaven" and "Waltz With Bashir."

Check here for the full kudos.