2009 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

6th SLGFCA Awards

December 21, 2009

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Best Film:
Up in the Air

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Best Director:
Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker

The 6th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 15 December and awarded on December 21, 2009.

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

• George Clooney – Up in the Air ^[1]
• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
• Ben Foster – The Messenger
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus
• Patton Oswalt – Big Fan ^[1]
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Best Actress

• Carey Mulligan – An Education ^[1]
• Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
• Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious ^[1]
• Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia

Best Animated Film

• Up ^[1]
• Coraline
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox ^[1]
• Ponyo
• The Princess and the Frog

Best Cinematography

• Nine – Dion Beebe ^[1]
• The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd
• Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
• Red Cliff (Chi bi) – Lü Yue and Zhang Li
• A Single Man – Eduard Grau ^[1]
• Where the Wild Things Are – Lance Acord

Best Director

• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker ^[1]
• Wes Anderson – The Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Oren Moverman – The Messenger
• Jason Reitman – Up in the Air ^[1]
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds ^[1]

Best Documentary Film

• Capitalism: A Love Story ^[1]
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil ^[1]
• Food, Inc.
• Good Hair
• Tyson

Best Film

• Up in the Air ^[1]
• (500) Days of Summer
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker ^[1]
• Invictus
• Precious
• Up

Best Comedy

• The Hangover ^[1]
• (500) Days of Summer ^[1]
• Away We Go
• Pirate Radio
• Zombieland

Best Foreign Language Film

• Red Cliff (Chi bi) • China ^[1]
• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) • Germany
• Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) • France
• The Maid (La nana) • Chile
• Treeless Mountain • South Korea ^[1]
• Without Name (Sin nombre) • Spain

Best Music

• Nine ^[1]
• Crazy Heart ^[1]
• Pirate Radio
• The Princess and the Frog
• Up

Best Screenplay

• (500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ^[1]
• An Education – Nick Hornby
• The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
• Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner ^[1]

Best Supporting Actor

• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds ^[1]
• Robert Duvall – The Road
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Alfred Molina – An Education
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones ^[1]

Best Supporting Actress

• Mo'Nique – Precious ^[1]
• Marion Cotillard – Nine ^[1]
• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
• Mélanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
• Samantha Morton – The Messenger

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar ^[1]
• District 9
• The Lovely Bones
• Star Trek
• Where the Wild Things Are ^[1]

Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film

• Avatar ^[1]
• (500) Days of Summer ^[1]
• District 9
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox ^[1]
• The Lovely Bones

Favorite Scene

• Up –"Opening marriage montage" ^[1]
• (500) Days of Summer – "'Expectations vs. reality' split-screen sequence"
• (500) Days of Summer – "'Morning after' dance number"
• Inglourious Basterds – "The opening farmhouse scene" ^[1]
• Precious – "Mo'Nique's scene at social worker office"

References

1. "St. Louis Film Critics". June 17, 2010. Archived from the original on June 17, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2025.