St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2009
# St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2009

6th SLGFCA Awards

December 21, 2009

Best Film:

Up in the Air

Best Director:

Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker

The 6th St. Louis Gateway 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
* Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
* Ben Foster – The Messenger
* Morgan Freeman – Invictus
* Patton Oswalt – Big Fan
* Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

### Best Actress

* Carey Mulligan – An Education
* Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones
* Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
* Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
* Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia

### Best Animated Film

* Up
* Coraline
* The Fantastic Mr. Fox
* Ponyo
* The Princess and the Frog

### Best Cinematography

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

### Best Director

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

### Best Documentary Film

* Capitalism: A Love Story
* Anvil! The Story of Anvil
* Food, Inc.
* Good Hair
* Tyson

### Best Film

* Up in the Air
* (500) Days of Summer
* An Education
* The Hurt Locker
* Invictus
* Precious
* Up

### Best Comedy

* The Hangover
* (500) Days of Summer
* Away We Go
* Pirate Radio
* Zombieland

### Best Foreign Language Film

* Red Cliff (Chi bi) • China
* 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
* Without Name (Sin nombre) • Spain

### Best Music

* Nine
* Crazy Heart
* Pirate Radio
* The Princess and the Frog
* Up

### Best Screenplay

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

### Best Supporting Actor

* Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
* Robert Duvall – The Road
* Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
* 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
* Mélanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
* Samantha Morton – The Messenger

### Best Visual Effects

* Avatar
* District 9
* The Lovely Bones
* Star Trek
* Where the Wild Things Are

### Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film

* Avatar
* (500) Days of Summer
* District 9
* The Fantastic Mr. Fox
* The Lovely Bones

### Favorite Scene

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