Winners & Nominees
Do you agree?
The movies in bold are the winners,
the movies in italics are my choice.
Best Picture
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
Nine
Precious
A Serious Man
Up (yes, that’s right)
Up in the Air
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 (tie)
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia (tie)
Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds (he made a glass of milk seem scary)
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 (psycho mom gets my vote, partly because you get the feeling she’d be that kind of a mom)
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
Nine
Precious
Star Trek
Up in the Air
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
(500) Days of Summer
It’s Complicated
The Proposal
Zombieland
Best Animated Film
Up
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Best Action Film
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
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
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
Food, Inc.
Michael Jackson’s This Is It (This is a subjective opinion – I know it wasn’t a very good movie, but I used to spend hours doing moonwalks and crotch grabs growing up)
Best Film Made for TV
Grey Gardens
Gifted Hands
Into the Storm
Taking Chance (Now one my lecturers in film school has a low opinion of made-for-tv and direct-to-dvd movies, which I now hold, BUT I did watch this movie on recommendation and I will say it deserves more praise than it got. I was on verge of tears, literally.)
Best Song
The Weary Kind by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett, Crazy Heart
All Is Love by Karen O and Nick Zinner, Where the Wild Things Are
Almost There by Randy Newman, The Princess and the Frog
Cinema Italiano by Maury Yeston, Nine
(I Want to) Come Home by Paul McCartney, 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
My choice: Eric Steelberg – Up in the air
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 Visual Effects
Avatar
2012
District 9
The Lovely Bones
Star Trek