- 1st Place, News Portrait and Personality
- Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - NOVEMBER 7, 2008- Mickey Rourke returns to the big screen this month in The Wrestler and is photographed with his 16-year-old chihuahua Loky, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Nov. 7, 2008. Rourke is being touted for what is being seen as his comeback role as a retired professional wrestler making his way through the independent circuit to compete one last time with his former rival.
- 1st
- Jay L. Clendenin
- Los Angeles Times
- 2nd
- Benedicte Kurzen / VII Mentor
- VII Mentor
- 3rd
- Uriel Sinai
- Getty Images
- HM
- Jay L. Clendenin
- Los Angeles Times
- HM
- Rod Lamkey Jr.
- The Washington Times
- HM
- Benedicte Kurzen / VII Mentor
- VII Mentor
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