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 Capitalism: A Love Story 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
References
External links Houston Film Critics Society: Awards