15th Critics' Choice Movie Awards

Date: 15 January 2010
Host: Kristin Chenoweth

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Best Film

• The Hurt Locker (2008)

Avatar (2009)
An Education (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Invictus (2009)
Nine (2009)
Precious (2009)
A Serious Man (2009)
Up (2009)
Up in the Air (2009)

Best Director

• Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

James Cameron (Avatar)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Clint Eastwood (Invictus)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Actor

• Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

George Clooney (Up in the Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Viggo Mortensen (The Road)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress

• Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
• Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Emily Blunt (The Young Victoria)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)

Best Supporting Actor

• Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles)
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)
Julianne Moore (A Single Man)
Samantha Morton (The Messenger)

Best Young Actor/Actress

• Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones)

Jae Head (The Blind Side)
Bailee Madison (Brothers)
Max Records (Where the Wild Things Are)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road)

Best Acting Ensemble

• Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Nine (2009)
Precious (2009)
Star Trek (2009)
Up in the Air (2009)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)

Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (District 9)
Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)
Tom Ford and David Searce (A Single Man)
Nick Hornby (An Education)

Best Original Screenplay

• Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer)
Bob Peterson and Peter Docter (Up)

Best Comedy Film

• The Hangover (2009)

(500) Days of Summer (2009)
It's Complicated (2009)
The Proposal (2009)
Zombieland (2009)


Best Animated Film

• Up (2009)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Coraline (2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Best Action Film

• Avatar (2009)

District 9 (2009)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Star Trek (2009)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos) (Spain)

Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) (France)
Red Cliff (Chi bi) (China)
The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band) (Germany/Austria/France/Italy)
Without Name (Sin nombre) (Mexico/USA)

Best Documentary Film

• The Cove (2009)

Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Food, Inc. (2008)
Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)

Best Film Made for TV

• Grey Gardens (2009)

Gifted Hands (2009)
Into the Storm (2009)
Taking Chance (2009)

Best Song

• Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett - The Weary Kind (Crazy Heart)

Karen O and Nick Zinner - All Is Love (Where the Wild Things Are)
Randy Newman - Almost There" (The Princess and the Frog)
Maury Yeston - Cinema Italiano (Nine)
Paul McCartney - (I Want to) Come Home (Everybody's Fine)

Best Score

• Michael Giacchino (Up)

Marvin Hamlisch (The Informant!)
Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)
Karen O and Carter Burwell (Where the Wild Things Are)
Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)


Best Cinematography

• Mauro Fiore (Avatar)

Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker)
Dion Beebe (Nine)
Andrew Lesnie (The Lovely Bones)
Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Art Direction

• Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Avatar)

Dan Bishop (A Single Man)
John Myhre and Gordon Sim (Nine)
Naomi Shohan and George De Titta, Jr. (The Lovely Bones)
David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds Wasco (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Editing

• Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, and James Cameron (Avatar)

Dana E. Glauberman (Up in the Air)
Sally Menke (Inglourious Basterds)
Bob Murawski and Chris Innis (The Hurt Locker)
Claire Simpson and Wyatt Smith (Nine)

Best Costume Design

• Sandy Powell (The Young Victoria)

Colleen Atwood (Nine)
Janet Patterson (Bright Star)
Anna Sheppard (Inglourious Basterds)
Casey Storm (Where the Wild Things Are)

Best Makeup

• District 9 (2009)

Avatar (2009)
Nine (2009)
The Road (2009)
Star Trek (2009)

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar (2009)

2012 (2009)
District 9 (2009)
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Star Trek (2009)


Best Sound

• Avatar (2009)

District 9 (2009)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Nine (2009)
Star Trek (2009)


Joel Siegel Award

• Kevin Bacon