San Diego Film Critics Society

San Diego Film Critics Society - 2009 SDFCS Awards

San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS)
SDFCS Awards (14th)
Nominations: December 15, 2009
Awards: December 15, 2009

Below are the nominations & winners for the 14th Annual SDFCS Awards.

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Best Picture
"(500) Days of Summer" (Fox Searchlight) Watermark
"A Single Man" (Weinstein Co.)
WINNER "Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) A Band Apart, Zehnte Babelsberg
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Kingsgate Films, First Light Production, Voltage Pictures
"Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Montecito Picture Company

Best Director
"A Serious Man" (Focus Features) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Cameron
"A Single Man" (Weinstein Co.) Tom Ford
WINNER "Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) Quentin Tarantino
"Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Jason Reitman

Best Actress
Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Columbia Pictures)
Abbie Cornish in "Bright Star" (Apparition)
WINNER Michelle Monaghan in "Trucker" (Monterey Media)
Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)

Best Actor
Ben Foster in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
Christian McKay in "Me and Orson Welles" (Freestyle Releasing LLC)
WINNER Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (Weinstein Co.)
George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures)
Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment)
Matt Damon in "The Informant!" (Warner Bros.)
Viggo Mortensen in "The Road" (Weinstein Co.)

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

Best Supporting Actor
WINNER Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.)
John Malkovich in "The Great Buck Howard" (Magnolia Pictures)
Paul Schneider in "Bright Star" (Apparition)
Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Pictures)
Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)

Best Original Screenplay
"The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures) Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
"Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Bob Peterson & Pete Docter
"A Serious Man" (Focus Features) Joel & Ethan Coen
"(500) Days of Summer" (Fox Searchlight) Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
WINNER "Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) Quentin Tarantino

Best Adapted Screenplay
"Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner
"Julie & Julia" (Columbia Pictures) Nora Ephron
"The Informant!" (Warner Bros.) Scott Z. Burns
"A Single Man" (Weinstein Co.) Tom Ford
WINNER "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach

Best Foreign Film
"Amreeka" (National Geographic) USA/Canada
"Captain Abu Raed" (NeoClassics Films) Jordan
WINNER "Il Divo" (Music Box) Lucky Red, Studio Canal, Arte France Cinema, Indigo Film, Parco Film, Italy/France
"Red Cliff" (China Film Group, Magnolia Pictures) China
"Sin Nombre" (Focus Features) Mexico/U.S.A.
"Lemon Tree" (IFC Films) Israel/Germany/France
"The Stoning of Soraya M." (Roadside Attractions) U.S.A.
"Treeless Mountain" (Oscilloscope Pictures) USA/South Korea
"Thirst" (CJ Entertainment, Focus Features) Moho Film, South Korea

Best Documentary
"Anvil! The Story of Anvil" (Abramorama)
"Capitalism: A Love Story" (Overture Films) Dog Eat Dog Films
"Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures)
WINNER "The Cove" (Roadside Attractions)
"Valentino: The Last Emperor"

Best Animated Film
"9" (Focus Features) Tim Burton Animation Co., Jim Lemley, Timur Bekmambetov
"Coraline" (Focus Features) Laika
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) American Empirical
"Monsters vs. Aliens" (Paramount, DreamWorks)
WINNER "Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios

Best Cinematography
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Barry Ackroyd
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.) Bruno Delbonnel
"A Single Man" (Weinstein Co.) Eduard Grau
"The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Hagan Bogdanski
WINNER "The Road" (Weinstein Co.) Javier Aguirresarobe
"Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) Robert Richardson

Best Editing
"Zombieland" (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Alan Baumgarten
WINNER "(500) Days of Summer" (Fox Searchlight) Alan Edward Bell
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski
"District 9" (Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Entertainment) Julian Clarke
"Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) Sally Menke

Best Production Design
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Anastasia Masaro
"A Single Man" (Weinstein Co.) Dan Bishop
WINNER "Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) David Wasco
"Where the Wild Things Are" (Warner Bros.) K.K. Barrett
"Me and Orson Welles" (Freestyle Releasing LLC) Laurence Dorman
"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Rick Carter & Robert Stromberg
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.) Stuart Craig

Best Score
WINNER "A Single Man" (Weinstein Co.) Abel Korzeniowski
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Alexandre Desplat
"Where the Wild Things Are" (Warner Bros.) Carter Burwell & Karen O
"The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Ilan Eshkeri
"Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
"(500) Days of Summer" (Fox Searchlight) Mychael Danna & Rob Simonsen

Best Ensemble
"A Serious Man" (Focus Features) Working Title
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.) Heyday Films
"In the Loop" (IFC Films) BBC
WINNER "Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) A Band Apart, Zehnte Babelsberg
"The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
"Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Montecito Picture Company
"Zombieland" (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Pariah Films

Special Award: Body of Work
WINNER Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
WINNER Woody Harrelson in "Zombieland" (Sony Pictures Entertainment)
WINNER Woody Harrelson in "2012" (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

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