San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2009

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

• 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

• Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
• Abbie Cornish - Bright Star
• Carey Mulligan - An Education
• Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia

  Best Animated Film

• 9
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Monsters vs. Aliens

  Best Cinematography

• 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

• 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

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
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• Food, Inc.
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  Best Editing

• District 9 - Julian Clarke
• Inglourious Basterds - Sally Menke
• The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski
• Zombieland - Peter Amundson and Alan Baumgarten

  Best Ensemble Performance

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• In the Loop
• The Messenger
• A Serious Man
• Up in the Air
• Zombieland''

  Best Film

• Days of Summer
• The Hurt Locker
• A Single Man
• Up in the Air''

  Best Foreign Language Film

• Amreeka • USA/Canada
• Captain Abu Raed • Jordan
• Lemon Tree • Israel/Germany/France
• Red Cliff • China
• Sin Nombre • Spain
• The Stoning of Soraya M. • USA
• Thirst • South Korea
• Treeless Mountain • South Korea

  Best Production Design

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Best Supporting Actress

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

  Body of Work