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Awards for 2009:

Best Actor
GEORGE CLOONEY,Up In The Air; MORGAN FREEMAN,Invictus

Best Actress
CAREY MULLIGAN, An Education

Best Adapted Screenplay
JASON REITMAN and SHELDON TURNER, Up In The Air

Best Animated Feature
UP

Best Director
CLINT EASTWOOD, Invictus

Best Documentary
THE COVE

Best Ensemble Cast
IT´S COMPLICATED

Best Film
UP IN THE AIR

Best Foreign Language Film
A PROPHET

Best Original Screenplay
JOEL AND ETHAN COEN, A Serious Man

Best Supporting Actor
WOODY HARRELSON, The Messenger

Best Supporting Actress
ANNA KENDRICK, Up In The Air

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor
JEREMY RENNER, The Hurt Locker

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
GABOUREY SIDIBE, Precious

Freedom Of Expression
BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY; INVICTUS; THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS

Special Achievement in Filmmaking
WES ANDERSON, The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Top Five Documentaries
(In alphabetical order) BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY, CRUDE, FOOD, INC., GOOD HAIR, THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS

Top Five Foreign Films
(In alphabetical order) THE MAID, REVANCHE, SONG OF SPARROWS, THREE MONKEYS, THE WHITE RIBBON

Top Independent Films
(In alphabetical order) AMREEKA, DISTRICT 9, GOODBYE SOLO, HUMPDAY, IN THE LOOP, JULIA, ME AND ORSON WELLES, MOON, SUGAR, TWO LOVERS

Top Ten Films
(In alphabetical order) AN EDUCATION, (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, THE HURT LOCKER, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, INVICTUS, THE MESSENGER, A SERIOUS MAN, STAR TREK, UP, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

William K. Everson Award For Film History
JEAN PICKER FIRSTENBERG

 

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