St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards 2009

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"