San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2009

The 14th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 15, 2009.^[1][2]

Winners and nominees[]

Best Actor[]

Colin Firth – A Single Man

• George Clooney – Up in the Air
• Matt Damon – The Informant!
• Ben Foster – The Messenger
• Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
• Viggo Mortensen – The Road
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Best Actress[]

Michelle Monaghan – Trucker

• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
• Abbie Cornish – Bright Star
• Carey Mulligan – An Education
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Animated Film[]

Up

• 9
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Monsters vs. Aliens

Best Cinematography[]

The Road – Javier Aguirresarobe

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Bruno Delbonnel
• The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd
• Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
• A Single Man – Eduard Grau
• The Young Victoria – Hagen Bogdanski

Best Director[]

Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron – Avatar
• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
• Tom Ford – A Single Man
• Jason Reitman – Up in the Air

Best Documentary[]

The Cove

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Capitalism: A Love Story
• Food, Inc.
• Valentino: The Last Emperor

Best Editing[]

(500) Days of Summer – Alan Edward Bell

• District 9 – Julian Clarke
• Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke
• The Hurt Locker – Bob Murawski
• Zombieland – Peter Amundson and Alan Baumgarten

Best Ensemble Performance[]

Inglourious Basterds

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• In the Loop
• The Messenger
• A Serious Man
• Up in the Air
• Zombieland

Best Film[]

Inglourious Basterds

• (500) Days of Summer
• The Hurt Locker
• A Single Man
• Up in the Air

Best Foreign Language Film[]

Il Divo • Italy

• Amreeka • USA/Canada
• Captain Abu Raed • Jordan
• Lemon Tree (Etz Limon) • Israel/Germany/France
• Red Cliff (Chi bi) • China
• Sin Nombre • Spain
• The Stoning of Soraya M. • USA
• Thirst (Bakjwi) • South Korea
• Treeless Mountain • South Korea

Best Production Design[]

Inglourious Basterds – David Wasco

• Avatar – Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Stuart Craig
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus – Anastasia Masaro
• Me and Orson Welles – Laurence Dorman
• A Single Man – Dan Bishop
• Where the Wild Things Are – K. K. Barrett

Best Score[]

A Single Man – Abel Korzeniowski

• (500) Days of Summer – Mychael Danna and Rob Simonsen
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
• Up – Michael Giacchino
• Where the Wild Things Are – Carter Burwell and Karen O
• The Young Victoria – Ilan Eshkeri

Best Original Screenplay[]

Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino

• (500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
• The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up – Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

Best Adapted Screenplay[]

Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach

• The Informant! – Scott Z. Burns
• Julie & Julia – Nora Ephron
• A Single Man – Tom Ford and David Scearce
• Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Supporting Actor[]

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• John Malkovich – The Great Buck Howard
• Paul Schneider – Bright Star
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones

Best Supporting Actress[]

Samantha Morton – The Messenger

• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
• Mélanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
• Mo'Nique – Precious

Body of Work[]

Woody Harrelson – The Messenger, Zombieland and 2012

References[]