St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2009



6th SLGFCA Awards December 21, 2009

Best Film: Up in the Air

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker The 6th St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 15 December and awarded on December 21, 2009.

Best Actor

 * George Clooney – Up in the Air
 * Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
 * Ben Foster – The Messenger
 * Morgan Freeman – Invictus
 * Patton Oswalt – Big Fan
 * Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Best Actress

 * Carey Mulligan – An Education
 * Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
 * Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
 * Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
 * Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia

Best Animated Film

 * Up
 * Coraline
 * The Fantastic Mr. Fox
 * Ponyo
 * The Princess and the Frog

Best Cinematography

 * Nine – Dion Beebe
 * The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd
 * Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
 * Red Cliff (Chi bi) – Lü Yue and Zhang Li
 * A Single Man – Eduard Grau
 * Where the Wild Things Are – Lance Acord

Best Director

 * Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
 * Wes Anderson – The Fantastic Mr. Fox
 * Oren Moverman – The Messenger
 * Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
 * Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Documentary Film

 * Capitalism: A Love Story
 * Anvil! The Story of Anvil
 * Food, Inc.
 * Good Hair
 * Tyson

Best Film

 * Up in the Air
 * (500) Days of Summer
 * An Education
 * The Hurt Locker
 * Invictus
 * Precious
 * Up

Best Comedy

 * The Hangover
 * (500) Days of Summer
 * Away We Go
 * Pirate Radio
 * Zombieland

Best Foreign Language Film

 * Red Cliff (Chi bi) • China
 * The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) • Germany
 * Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) • France
 * The Maid (La nana) • Chile
 * Treeless Mountain • South Korea
 * Without Name (Sin nombre) • Spain

Best Music

 * Nine
 * Crazy Heart
 * Pirate Radio
 * The Princess and the Frog
 * Up

Best Screenplay

 * (500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
 * An Education – Nick Hornby
 * The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
 * Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
 * Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Supporting Actor

 * Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
 * Robert Duvall – The Road
 * Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
 * Alfred Molina – An Education
 * Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones

Best Supporting Actress

 * Mo'Nique – Precious
 * Marion Cotillard – Nine
 * Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
 * Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
 * Mélanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
 * Samantha Morton – The Messenger

Best Visual Effects

 * Avatar
 * District 9
 * The Lovely Bones
 * Star Trek
 * Where the Wild Things Are

Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film

 * Avatar
 * (500) Days of Summer
 * District 9
 * The Fantastic Mr. Fox
 * The Lovely Bones

Favorite Scene

 * Up – "Opening marriage montage"
 * (500) Days of Summer – "'Expectations vs. reality' split-screen sequence"
 * (500) Days of Summer – "'Morning after' dance number"
 * Inglourious Basterds – "The opening farmhouse scene"
 * Precious – "Mo'Nique's scene at social worker office"