Rich Picks
20082010

Awards & Top Films

2009

Rich Picks for Film Excellence

WonNominee

Top 10 Films of 2009

1
A
Still Walking4 Wins · 7 Nominations
2
A-
Inglourious Basterds2 Wins · 7 Nominations
3
A-
Avatar2 Wins · 6 Nominations
4
A-
The Hurt Locker1 Win · 8 Nominations
5
A-
A Single Man1 Win · 4 Nominations
6
A-
The Messenger2 Nominations
7
A-
Inglorious BasterdsNo award data
8
A-
B+
Up in the Air2 Wins · 6 Nominations
9
B+
An Education1 Win · 4 Nominations
10
B+
A Prophet2 Nominations

Film

Animated Feature

The Secret of Kells
Producer: Tomm Moore
Oscar
Up
Producers: Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy, and Bob Peterson
OscarGlobeNBRBAFTA
Coraline
Producer: Henry Selick
OscarGlobeBAFTA
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Producer: Pam Marsden
Globe
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Producer: Wes Anderson
OscarGlobeBAFTA

Animated Short

French Roast
Producer: Fabrice Joubert
Oscar
The Lady and the Reaper
Producer: Javier Recio Gracia
Oscar
Partly Cloudy
Producer: Peter Sohn
The Cat Piano
Producers: Ari Gibson and Eddie White
Runaway
Producer: Cordell Barker

Documentary

Food, Inc.
Producers: Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
Spirit
The Beaches of Agnès
Producer: Agnès Varda
The Cove
Producers: Fisher Stevens and Louie Psihoyos
NBR

International Feature

Still Walking
Producers: Satoshi Kōno, Masahiro Yasuda, Yoshihiro Kato, and Hijiri Taguchi
Summer Hours
Producers: Marin Karmitz, Nathanaël Karmitz, and Charles Gillibert
Séraphine
Producers: Milena Poylo and Gilles Sacuto
Broken Embraces
Producers: Esther García and Agustín Almodóvar
GlobeBAFTA
A Prophet
Producer: Jacques Audiard
GlobeBAFTASpirit

Live-Action Feature

Still Walking
Producers: Satoshi Kōno, Masahiro Yasuda, Yoshihiro Kato, and Hijiri Taguchi
Avatar
Producers: Jon Landau and James Cameron
OscarBAFTA
The Hurt Locker
Producers: Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Nicolas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro
OscarNBRBAFTASAG
Inglourious Basterds
Producer: Lawrence Bender
OscarNBRSAG
The Messenger
Producers: Zach Miller, Mark Gordon, and Lawrence Inglee
NBRSpirit

Live-Action Short

The Pig
Producers: Dorte Høgh and Tivi Magnusson
On the Line
Producer: Reto Caffi
New Boy
Producers: Steph Green and Tamara Anghie

Directing & Editing

Directing

Kore•eda Hirokazu
Still Walking
Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker
OscarGlobeDGA
James Cameron
Avatar
OscarGlobeDGA
Quentin Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds
OscarGlobeDGA
Jason Reitman
Up in the Air
OscarGlobeDGA

Editing

Kore•eda Hirokazu
Still Walking
Julian Clarke
District 9
OscarBAFTA
James Cameron and Stephen E. Rivkin
Avatar
OscarBAFTA
Barney Pilling
An Education
Chris Innis and Bob Murawski
The Hurt Locker
OscarBAFTA

Acting

Actor in a Leading Role

George Clooney
as Ryan Bingham in
Up in the Air
OscarGlobeNBRBAFTA
Tahar Rahim
as Malik El Djebena in
A Prophet
Jeff Bridges
as Otis "Bad" Blake in
Crazy Heart
OscarGlobeBAFTASpirit
Jeremy Renner
as SFC William James in
The Hurt Locker
OscarBAFTASpirit
Colin Firth
as George Falconer in
A Single Man
OscarGlobeBAFTASpirit

Actor in a Supporting Role

Christoph Waltz
as SS Colonel Hans Landa in
Inglourious Basterds
OscarBAFTA
Robert Duvall
as Old Man in
The Road
as Wayne in
Crazy Heart
Stanley Tucci
as Paul Child in
Julie & Julia
as George Harvey in
The Lovely Bones
OscarBAFTA
Michael Fassbender
as Conor in
Fish Tank
as Lt. Archie Hicox in
Inglourious Basterds
Woody Harrelson
as Captain Tony Stone in
The Messenger
OscarNBRSpirit

Actress in a Leading Role

Carey Mulligan
as Jenny Mellor in
An Education
OscarNBRBAFTA
Meryl Streep
as Jane Adler in
It's Complicated
as Julia Child in
Julie & Julia
OscarBAFTA
Yolande Moreau
as Séraphine Louis, dite Séraphine de Senlis in
Séraphine
Saoirse Ronan
as Susie Salmon in
The Lovely Bones
BAFTA
Robin Wright Penn
as Pippa Lee in
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Actress in a Supporting Role

Blanca Portillo
as Judit García in
Broken Embraces
Anna Kendrick
as Natalie Keener in
Up in the Air
OscarNBR
Kiki Kirin
as Toshiko Yokoyama in
Still Walking
Julianne Moore
as Charley in
A Single Man
Rosamund Pike
as Helen in
An Education

Writing

Screenplay (Adapted)

Jason Reitman
Up in the Air
based on the novel by Walter Kirn
OscarGlobeNBRBAFTAWGA
Scott Cooper
Crazy Heart
based on the 1987 novel of the same name by Thomas Cobb
SpiritWGA
Jesse Armstrong, Tony Roche, Armando Iannucci, and Simon Blackwell
In the Loop
based on the character Malcolm Tucker, from the television series The Thick of It by Iannucci
OscarBAFTA
Terri Tatchell and Neill Blomkamp
District 9
based on the short film Alive in Joburg written by Blomkamp
OscarGlobeBAFTA
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach
Fantastic Mr. Fox
based on the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl

Screenplay (Original)

Quentin Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds
OscarGlobeBAFTA
Mark Boal
The Hurt Locker
OscarGlobeBAFTAWGA
Olivier Assayas
Summer Hours
Kore•eda Hirokazu
Still Walking
Pedro Almodóvar
Broken Embraces

Visual

Art Direction

Philip Ivey
District 9
Production design: Philip Ivey
BAFTAADG
Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Production design: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro
OscarBAFTA
Nelson Lowry
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Production design: Nelson Lowry
David Wasco
Inglourious Basterds
Production design: David Wasco
BAFTAADG
Mark Ricker
Julie & Julia
Production design: Mark Ricker
ADG

Cinematography

Robbie Ryan
Fish Tank
Greig Fraser
Bright Star
Barry Ackroyd
The Hurt Locker
OscarBAFTAASC
Yamasaki Yutaka
Still Walking
Robert Richardson
Inglourious Basterds
OscarBAFTAASC

Costuming

Sandy Powell
The Young Victoria
OscarBAFTACDG
Janet Patterson
Bright Star
OscarBAFTA
Monique Prudhomme
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Oscar
Anna B. Sheppard
Inglourious Basterds
Casey Storm
Where the Wild Things Are

Effects

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Stephen Rosenbaum, and Andrew R. Jones
Avatar
OscarBAFTA
Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Matt Aitken, and Robert Habros
District 9
OscarBAFTA
Marc Weigert and Volker Engel
2012

Make-Up & Hairstyling

Joe Dunckley, Sarah Rubano, and Leon von Solms
District 9
Cydney Cornell and Kate Biscoe
A Single Man
Frída Aradóttir and Jean Ann Black
A Serious Man
Sarah Monzani
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
BAFTA
Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow, and Barney Burman
Star Trek

Sound & Music

Original Score

Abel Korzeniowski
A Single Man
Globe
Michael Giacchino
Up
GlobeBAFTA
Rolfe Kent
Up in the Air
Michael Galasso
Séraphine
Marvin Hamlisch
The Informant!
Globe

Original Song

"Hideaway"
Where the Wild Things Are
Music & lyrics: Karen O. & The Kids
"Sirens of the Sea"
Coraline
Music & lyrics: Michele Mariana, Bernard Paganotti, and Bruno Coulais
"Up in the Air"
Up in the Air
Music & lyrics: Kevin Renick
"The Weary Kind (Theme from 'Crazy Heart')"
Crazy Heart
Music and Lyrics: Joseph Henry ("T-Bone") Burnett and Ryan Bingham
Globe
"You've Got Me Wrapped around Your Little Finger"
An Education
Music & lyrics: Beth Rowley and Ben Castle

Sound Editing

Christopher Boyes and Addison Teague
Avatar
Foley Artists: Dennie Thorpe and Jana Vance
Sound Designers: Christopher Boyes and Addison Teague
ADR editors: Richard Hymns, Steve Slanec, Stuart McCowan, and Petra Bach
Sound Effects Editors: Shannon Mills, Christopher Scarabosio, Tim Nielsen, and Ken Fischer
Sound editor: Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Music Editors: Dick Bernstein, Michael K. Bauer, and Jim Henrikson
Dialogue Editors: Cheryl Nardi, Marshall Winn, and Kim Foscato
Foley editors: James Likowski and Luke Dunn Gielmuda
BAFTA
Dave Whitehead, Chris Ward, and Brent Burge
District 9
Foley Artists: Robyn McFarlane and Carolyn McLaughlin
Foley editor: Craig Tomlinson
Sound Effects Editors: Hayden Collow and Melanie Graham
Sound Designer: Dave Whitehead
Sound editors: Chris Ward and Brent Burge
ADR editors: Jason Canovas, Mark Franken, Polly McKinnon, and Justin Webster
BAFTA
John Dunn, John Cannon, Jason George, and Geoffrey G. Rubay
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Sound editors: John Dunn, John Cannon, Jason George, Geoffrey G. Rubay, Robert Fisher, and Ben Wilkins
Music Editor: Andrew Dorfman
Sound Designer: John Pospisil
Foley Artists: Gary A. Hecker and Michael Broomberg
Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Up
Sound Designers: Tom Myers and E.J. Holowicki
Sound Effects Editors: Al Nelson, J.R. Grubbs, and Teresa Eckton
Sound editor: Michael Silvers
Foley Artists: Jana Vance and Dennie Thorpe
Foley editors: Pascal Garneau and Jonathan Null
Music Editor: Stephen M. Davis
ADR editor: Steve Slanec
BAFTA
Paul N. J. Ottosson
The Hurt Locker
Sound Effects Editors: Bernard Weiser, Chris M. Jacobson, and Jamie Hardt
Foley editor: Richard C. Franklin
Foley Artist: Alex Ullrich
Sound editors: Paul N. J. Ottosson and Ryan Juggler
ADR mixer: Judah Getz
ADR editor: Kimberly Harris
Dialogue Editor: Robert Troy
BAFTA

Sound Mixing

Paul N. J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
The Hurt Locker
BAFTA
Gilbert Lake, Michael Hedges, and Ken Saville
District 9
BAFTA
Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, and Tony Johnson
Avatar
BAFTA
Matthew Waters, Todd Beckett, and Joe Barnett
Crazy Heart
Ren Klyce
Where the Wild Things Are