San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2009



14th SDFCS Awards December 15, 2009

Best Film: Inglourious Basterds

Best Director: Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds

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

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