Dakota Fanning is Critic's Cute

Dakota Fanning stands tall in a pale yellow dress at the 2009 Critic’s Choice Awards at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in California on Thursday evening.

The 14-year-old War of The Worlds actress was nominated for the Best Young Actor or Actress Award but lost out to Slumdog Millionaire‘s Dev Patel.

Dakota will premiere her new animated film, Coraline, in February. The movie is about a young girl (voiced by Fanning) who walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life.