Houston Film Critics Society - 2009 HFCS Awards

Houston Film Critics Society - 2009 HFCS Awards

Houston Film Critics Society (HFCS)
HFCS Awards (3rd)
Nominations: December 17, 2009
Awards: December 19, 2009

Below are the nominations & winners for the 3rd Annual HFCS Awards.

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Best Picture
"(500) Days of Summer" (Fox Searchlight) Watermark
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Dune, Lightstorm Entertainment, Ingenious Film Partners
"District 9" (Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Entertainment) WingNut Films
"Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) A Band Apart, Zehnte Babelsberg
"Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Malpaso Company, Mace Neufeld Productions, Revelations Entertainment
"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films) Smokewood Entertainment Group
"Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures) Bad Robot
WINNER "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Kingsgate Films, First Light Production, Voltage Pictures
"Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios
"Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Montecito Picture Company

Best Director
"Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Cameron
"Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Jason Reitman
WINNER "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow
"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films) Lee Daniels
"Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) Quentin Tarantino

Best Actor
WINNER George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures)
Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment)
Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
Viggo Mortensen in "The Road" (Weinstein Co.)

Best Actress
Abbie Cornish in "Bright Star" (Apparition)
WINNER Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films)
Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Columbia Pictures)
Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
Saoirse Ronan in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures)

Best Supporting Actor
Christian McKay in "Me and Orson Welles" (Freestyle Releasing LLC)
WINNER Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.)
Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures)
Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
Zach Galifianakis in "The Hangover" (Warner Bros.)

Best Supporting Actress
WINNER Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures)
Mo’Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films)
Penelope Cruz in "Nine" (Weinstein Co.)
Samantha Morton in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures)

Best Screenplay
"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films) Geoffrey Fletcher
WINNER "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
"In the Loop" (IFC Films) Jesse Armstrong
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Mark Boal
"Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) Quentin Tarantino
"(500) Days of Summer" (Fox Searchlight) Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber

Best Animated Film
"Coraline" (Focus Features) Laika
"9" (Focus Features) Tim Burton Animation Co., Jim Lemley, Timur Bekmambetov
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) American Empirical
"The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Walt Disney Animation
WINNER "Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios

Best Cinematography
"The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures) Andrew Lesnie
WINNER "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Barry Ackroyd
"Nine" (Weinstein Co.) Dion Beebe
"The Road" (Weinstein Co.) Javier Aguirresarobe
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore and Vince Pace

Best Documentary
"Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
"Capitalism: A Love Story" (Overture Films) Dog Eat Dog Films
"Every Little Step" (Sony Pictures Classics)
"Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures)
WINNER "The Cove" (Roadside Attractions)
"Tyson" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Foreign Film
"35 Shots of Rum" (Cinema Guild) France/Germany
"Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos)" (Sony Pictures Classics) Spain
"Cape No. 7" (Buena Vista International [us])
"Red Cliff" (China Film Group, Magnolia Pictures) China
WINNER "Sin Nombre" (Focus Features) Mexico/U.S.A.
"Summer Hours" (IFC Films) France
"The Stoning of Soraya M." (Roadside Attractions) U.S.A.

Best Original Score
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Alexandre Desplat
"Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Horner
"The Informant!" (Warner Bros.) Marvin Hamlisch
WINNER "Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino

Best Original Song
"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Randy Newman
"Cinema Italiano" from "Nine" (Weinstein Co.) Maury Yeston
"Colorblind" from "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Daniel Po
"Depression Era" from "That Evening Sun" (Freestyle Releasing LLC) Patterson Hood
WINNER "Petey’s Song" from "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Jarvis Cocker, Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach
"The Weary Kind" from "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) Ryan Bingham & T. Bone Burnett

Lifetime Achievement Award
WINNER Patrick Swayze

Outstanding Achievement Award
WINNER Margaret Stratton

Humanitarian of the Year Award
WINNER G.W. Bailey

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