2009 Screening Log Movie Awards Nominations!

The nominations for the 1st annual Screening Log Movie Awards are in! I've selected the best of 2009 and narrowed them down to less than a dozen per category. Winners are announced Dec. 28, 2009.

A few notes on the process: These nominations reflect my selection of the best films I've seen this year. I've enjoyed many excellent movies this year, and I engaged in this process to honor my favorite ones of '09.

Over the course of this week, I will be looking more closely at each category and pick the ones I personally believe deserve to win. Please know these are solely my own, personal favorites of the year!

Let's get to it then! Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" took home four nominations, and "Up in the Air" received seven nominations. Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" earned six, and "The Road" took five.

Here is the full list of nominations. Please feel free to comment on these categories, and if you feel inspired, let me know which films you would pick as winners. Enjoy!

BEST FILM
Up In the Air
Invictus
The Road
The September Issue
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
The Hangover
Up
Adventureland
The Hurt Locker

BEST DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Jason Reitman - Up In the Air
Werner Herzog - Bad Lieutenant
Clint Eastwood - Invictus
John Hillcoat - The Road
Steven Soderbergh - The Informant!

BEST SCREENPLAY (Adapted or Original)
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner - Up In the Air
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
Greg Mottola - Adventureland
Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Joe Penhall - The Road
Various - New York, I Love You

BEST ACTOR
Colin Firth - A Single Man
George Clooney - Up In the Air
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
Nicolas Cage  - Bad Lieutenant
Morgan Freeman - Invictus
Viggo Mortensen - The Road
Clive Owen - The Boys Are Back

BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe - Precious
Charlize Theron - The Burning Plain
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Audrey Tautou - Coco Before Chanel

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Tobey Maguire - Brothers
Woody Harrelson - Zombieland
Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles
Ethan Hawke - New York, I Love You
Val Kilmer - Bad Lieutenant
Liev Schreiber - Taking Woodstock

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Mo'Nique - Precious
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
Natalie Portman - Brothers
Imelda Staunton - Taking Woodstock

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Barry Ackroyd - The Hurt Locker
Robert Richardson - Inglourious Basterds
Lance Acord - Where the Wild Things Are
Roger Deakins - A Serious Man
Dante Spinotti - Public Enemies
Peter Zeitlinger - Bad Lieutenant
Javier Aquirresarobe - The Road

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Up
The Princess and the Frog
Coraline
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar
Star Trek
2012
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
District 9
Where the Wild Things Are
Terminator Salvation
Watchmen

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
The Hangover
Star Trek
Inglourious Basterds
The Hurt Locker
Zombieland
Up In the Air
New York, I Love You

BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Cove
The September Issue
Food, Inc.
Good Hair

WORST FILM
Bride Wars
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
The Stepfather
Whiteout
The Pink Panther 2
Fired Up!
Miss March
Obsessed
My Life in Ruins
Land of the Lost

Comments

[Anne Luna]

I'm excited to see the winners. I'm happy I haven't seen most of the nominees for "worst film" haha.