6th SLGFCA Awards December 21, 2009

Best Film: Up in the Air

Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker The 6th St. Louis 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"

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