Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2009 Explained

3rd Houston Film Critics Society Awards
Presenter:	Houston Film Critics Society
Location:	Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Country:	United States
Website:	houstonfilmcritics.com/awards
Previous:	2008
Main:	HFCSA
Next:	2010

The 3rd Houston Film Critics Society Awards nominations were announced on the December 17, 2009. The 2009 awards were given out at a ceremony held at the Museum of Fine Arts on December 19, 2009. The awards are presented annually by the Houston Film Critics Society based in Houston, Texas.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Picture	Best Foreign Language Film
The Hurt Locker (500) Days of Summer Avatar District 9 Inglourious Basterds Invictus Precious Star Trek Up Up in the Air	Sin Nombre • Spain 35 Shots of Rum • Canada Broken Embraces • Spain Cape No. 7 • Taiwan Red Cliff • China The Stoning of Soraya M. • United States/Iran Summer Hours • France
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
George Clooney - Up in the Air Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart Morgan Freeman - Invictus Viggo Mortensen - The Road Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker	Carey Mulligan - An Education Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side Abbie Cornish - Bright Star Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones Gabourey Sidibe - Precious Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds Zach Galifianakis - The Hangover Woody Harrelson - The Messenger Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones	Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air Penélope Cruz - Nine Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air Mo'Nique - Precious Samantha Morton - The Messenger
Best Direction of a Motion Picture	Best Cinematography
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker James Cameron - Avatar Lee Daniels - Precious Clint Eastwood - Invictus Jason Reitman - Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds	The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd Avatar - Mauro Fiore and Vince Pace The Lovely Bones - Andrew Lesnie Nine - Dion Beebe The Road - Javier Aguirresarobe
Best Animated Feature Film	Best Documentary Feature
Up 9 Coraline Fantastic Mr. Fox The Princess and the Frog	The Cove Burma VJ Every Little Step Food, Inc. Tyson
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Up - Michael Giacchino Avatar - James Horner Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat The Informant! - Marvin Hamlisch Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer	"Petey's Song" by Jarvis Cocker, Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr. Fox "Almost There" by Randy Newman - The Princess and the Frog "Cinema Italiano" by Maury Yeston - Nine "Colorblind" by Daniel Po - Invictus "Depression Era" by Patterson Hood - That Evening Sun "The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett - Crazy Heart
Best Screenplay
Up in the Air - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino In the Loop - Jesse Armstrong Precious - Geoffrey S. Fletcher

External links

• Houston Film Critics Society: Awards