Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2009

3rd Houston Film Critics Society Awards
Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2010
Date	December 19, 2009 (2009-12-19)
Location	Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Country	United States
Presented by	Houston Film Critics Society
Official website	houstonfilmcritics.com/awards

The 3rd Houston Film Critics Society Awards nominations were announced on the December 17, 2009. The 2009 awards were given out at a ceremony held at the Museum of Fine Arts on December 19, 2009.^[1] The awards are presented annually by the Houston Film Critics Society based in Houston, Texas.^[2]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Picture	Best Foreign Language Film
The Hurt Locker (500) Days of Summer Avatar District 9 Inglourious Basterds Invictus Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Star Trek Up Up in the Air	Sin Nombre • Spain 35 Shots of Rum • Canada Broken Embraces • Spain Cape No. 7 • Taiwan Red Cliff • China The Stoning of Soraya M. • United States/Iran Summer Hours • France
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
George Clooney - Up in the Air Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart Morgan Freeman - Invictus Viggo Mortensen - The Road Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker	Carey Mulligan - An Education Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side Abbie Cornish - Bright Star Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds Zach Galifianakis - The Hangover Woody Harrelson - The Messenger Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones	Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air Penélope Cruz - Nine Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Samantha Morton - The Messenger
Best Direction of a Motion Picture	Best Cinematography
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker James Cameron - Avatar Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Clint Eastwood - Invictus Jason Reitman - Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds	The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd Avatar - Mauro Fiore and Vince Pace The Lovely Bones - Andrew Lesnie Nine - Dion Beebe The Road - Javier Aguirresarobe
Best Animated Feature Film	Best Documentary Feature
Up 9 Coraline Fantastic Mr. Fox The Princess and the Frog	The Cove Burma VJ Capitalism: A Love Story Every Little Step Food, Inc. Tyson
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Up - Michael Giacchino Avatar - James Horner Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat The Informant! - Marvin Hamlisch Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer	"Petey's Song" by Jarvis Cocker, Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr. Fox "Almost There" by Randy Newman - The Princess and the Frog "Cinema Italiano" by Maury Yeston - Nine "Colorblind" by Daniel Po - Invictus "Depression Era" by Patterson Hood - That Evening Sun "The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett - Crazy Heart
Best Screenplay
Up in the Air - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino In the Loop - Jesse Armstrong Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire - Geoffrey S. Fletcher

References

↑ Leydon, Joe (December 19, 2009). "Houston critics salute 'Locker'". Variety. Retrieved December 15, 2010.
↑ Dansby, Andrew (December 18, 2009). "Houston film critics announcing awards Saturday". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved December 15, 2010.

External links

Houston Film Critics Society: Awards

Houston Film Critics Society

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