# 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.

## Winners and nominees
### 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