The 14th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 15, 2009.

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Colin FirthA 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 MonaghanTrucker

  • 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 RoadJavier 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 TarantinoInglourious 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 SummerAlan 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 BasterdsDavid 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 ManAbel 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 BasterdsQuentin 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. FoxWes 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 WaltzInglourious Basterds

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

Best Supporting Actress

Samantha MortonThe Messenger

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

Body of Work

Woody HarrelsonThe Messenger, Zombieland and 2012

References

External links

  • San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2009 at IMDb

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