Pretentious Film Awards 2009--The Winners!

*Denotes winner
**Denotes second runner up
***Denotes third runner up

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Hunger*
The Hurt Locker**
Inglourious Basterds***
The Messenger
Precious

Best Achievement in Directing

Jane Campion - Bright Star
Steve McQueen - Hunger**
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker*
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds***
John Hillcoat - The Road

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart**
Michael Fassbender - Hunger*
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - (500) Days of Summer
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker***
Sam Rockwell - Moon

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Abbie Cornish - Bright Star***
Paulina Gaitan - Sin Nombre
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious**
Tilda Swinton - Julia*

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Anthony Mackie - The Hurt Locker***
Fred Melamed - A Serious Man
Paul Schneider - Bright Star**
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds*

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Jennifer Coolidge - Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air***
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious*
Samantha Morton - The Messenger**

Best Original Screenplay

(500) Days of Summer - Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Webb
Hunger - Steve McQueen and Enda Walsh
The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino*
The Messenger - Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman

Best Adapted Screenplay

District 9 - Neil Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education - Lynn Barber and Nick Hornby
Precious - Geoffrey Fletcher*
The Road - Joe Penhall**
Where the Wild Things Are - David Eggers and Spike Jonze***


Best Achivement in Costume Design

Bright Star - Janet Patterson*
An Education - Odile Dicks-Mireaux
Inglourious Basterds - Anna B. Sheppard**
A Serious Man - Mary Zophres
A Single Man - Arianne Phillips***

Best Achievement in Cinematography

Bright Star - Greg Fraser**
Hunger - Sean Bobbit
The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson***
The Road - Javier Aguirresarobe*

Best Achievement in Art Direction

Avatar - Nick Bassett**
Bright Star - Christian Huband

Inglourious Basterds - Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (sets), Marco Bittner Rosser, Stephan O. Gessler, Sebastian Krawinkel, David Scheunemann, Steve Summersgill, Bettina von den Steinen*

Precious - Matteo De Cosmo
The Road - Gershon Ginsburg***

Best Achievement in Editing

(500) Days of Summer - Alan Edward Bell
Avatar - James Cameron, John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin***
The Hurt Locker - Chris Innis and Bob Murawski*
Hunger - Joe Walker
Inglourious Basterds - Sally Menke**

Best Visual Effects

Avatar*
District 9
Star Trek

Best Makeup/Hair

Drag Me to Hell - Luisa Abel
Hunger - Alison Rainey and Sian Wilson
The Road - Mandi Crane, Deborah Patino and Sherri Simmons*

Best Original Score

Bright Star - Mark Bradshaw
Drag Me to Hell - Christopher Young
The Road - Nick Cave and Warren Ellis**
Up - Michael Giacchino*
Where the Wild Things Are - Carter Burwell and Karen O.***

Best Original Song

Crazy Heart - "The Weary Kind"
Nine - "Take It All"
Where the Wild Things Are - "All is Love"*

Awards Tally

Inglourious Basterds - 3
Hunger - 2
The Hurt Locker - 2
The Road - 2
Bright Star - 1
Julia - 1
Precious - 1
Where the Wild Things Are - 1

Full Top Ten of 2009

1. Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen)
2. The Hurt Locker (dir. Kathryn Bigelow)
3. Inglourious Basterds (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
4. Precious (dir. Lee Daniels)
5. The Messenger (dir. Oren Moverman)
6. Bright Star (dir. Jane Campion)
7. The Road (dir. John Hillcoat)
8. Sin Nombre (dir. Cary Fukunaga)
9. Up (dir. Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
10. Where the Wild Things Are (dir. Spike Jonze)