15th Critics' Choice Awards

Best Picture

The Hurt Locker

• Avatar
• An Education
• Inglourious Basterds
• Invictus
• Nine
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• Up
• 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

• 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

• Nine
• Precious
• Star Trek
• Up in the Air

Best Original Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

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

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 S. Fletcher – Precious
• Tom Ford and David Scearce – A Single Man
• Nick Hornby – An Education

Best Action Film

Avatar

• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Star Trek

Best Animated Feature

Up

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

Best Comedy Film

The Hangover

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

Best Documentary Feature

The Cove

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

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 - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte) • Austria / France / Germany / Italy
• Without Name (Sin Nombre) • Mexico / USA

Best Picture Made for Television

Grey Gardens

• Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
• Into the Storm
• Taking Chance

Best Art Direction

Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg – Avatar

• Dan Bishop – A Single Man
• John Myhre and Gordon Sim – Nine
• Naomi Shohan and George DeTitta Jr. – The Lovely Bones
• David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco – Inglourious Basterds

Best Cinematography

Mauro Fiore – Avatar

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

Best Costume Design

Sandy Powell – The Young Victoria

• Colleen Atwood – Nine
• Janet Patterson – Bright Star
• Anna B. Sheppard – Inglourious Basterds
• Casey Storm – Where the Wild Things Are

Best Editing

James Cameron, John Refoua, and Stephen E. Rivkin – 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 Makeup

District 9

• Avatar
• Nine
• The Road
• Star Trek

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 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 Sound

Avatar

• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Nine
• Star Trek

Best Visual Effects

Avatar

• 2012
• District 9
• The Lovely Bones
• Star Trek

Joel Siegel Award

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