2009 (82nd Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 2009. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
Avatar, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers.The Blind Side, Alcon Entertainment Production; Warner Bros. Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Producers.District 9, Block/Hanson Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada) Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers.An Education, Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, USA) Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers.The Hurt Locker, Voltage Pictures Production; Summit Entertainment. Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers.Inglourious Basterds, Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures. (Germany, USA) Lawrence Bender, Producer.Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production; Lionsgate. Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers.A Serious Man, Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (USA, UK, France) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers.Up in the Air, Montecito Picture Company Production; Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios. Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers.Actor in a Leading Role
George Clooney in Up in the Air, Montecito Picture Company Production; Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios.Actress in a Leading Role
Helen Mirren in The Last Station, Egoli Tossell Film/Zephyr Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, Germany, Russia)Carey Mulligan in An Education, Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, USA)Gabourey Sidibe in Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production; Lionsgate.Actor in a Supporting Role
Christopher Plummer in The Last Station, Egoli Tossell Film/Zephyr Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, Germany, Russia)Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones, Wingnut Films Production; DreamWorks in association with Film4, distributed by Paramount. (USA, UK, New Zealand)Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds, Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures. (Germany, USA)Actress in a Supporting Role
Penélope Cruz in Nine, Weinstein Brothers/Mark Platt/Lucamar/Relativity Media Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA)Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air, Montecito Picture Company Production; Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios.Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air, Montecito Picture Company Production; Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios.Mo’Nique in Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production; Lionsgate.Directing
Inglourious Basterds, Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures. (Germany, USA) Quentin Tarantino.Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production; Lionsgate. Lee Daniels.Up in the Air, Montecito Picture Company Production; Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios. Jason Reitman.Animated Feature Film
The Princess and the Frog, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. John Musker and Ron Clements.The Secret of Kells, Cartoon Saloon/Les Armateurs/Vivi Film Production; GKIDS. (France, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, USA, Denmark, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Hungary) Tomm Moore.Art Direction-Set Decoration
Avatar, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) Art direction by Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; set decoration by Kim Sinclair.The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Poo Poo Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, France, Canada) Art direction by Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; set decoration by Caroline Smith.Nine, Weinstein Brothers/Mark Platt/Lucamar/Relativity Media Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA) Art direction by John Myhre; set decoration by Gordon Sim.Sherlock Holmes, Warner Bros. UK Services Production; Warner Bros. (USA, Germany, UK) Art direction by Sarah Greenwood; set decoration by Katie Spencer.The Young Victoria, GK Films Production; Apparition. (UK, USA) Art direction by Patrice Vermette; set decoration by Maggie Gray.Cinematography
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (UK, USA) Bruno Delbonnel.Inglourious Basterds, Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures. (Germany, USA) Robert Richardson.The White Ribbon, X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada) Christian Berger.Costume Design
Bright Star, Jan Chapman/Bright Star Films Production; Apparition. (UK, Australia, France) Janet Patterson.Coco Before Chanel, Haut et Court Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (France, Belgium) Catherine Leterrier.The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Poo Poo Pictures Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, France, Canada) Monique Prudhomme.Nine, Weinstein Brothers/Mark Platt/Lucamar/Relativity Media Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA) Colleen Atwood.Documentary
(Feature)
Burma VJ, Magic Hour Films Production; Oscilloscope Laboratories. (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands, Israel, Spain, Belgium, Canada) Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller.The Cove, Oceanic Preservation Society Production; Roadside Attractions. Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens.The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Kovno Communications Production. Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith.(Short Subject)
China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, Downtown Community Television Center Production. Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill.The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, Just Media Production. Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher.The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, Community Media Production. Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.Rabbit à la Berlin, MS Films Production; Deckert Distribution. (Poland, Germany) Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra.Film Editing
Avatar, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron.District 9, Block/Hanson Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada) Julian Clarke.Inglourious Basterds, Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures. (Germany, USA) Sally Menke.Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production; Lionsgate. Joe Klotz.Foreign Language Film
Ajami, Inosan Production; Kino International. (Germany, Israel) Israel.The Milk of Sorrow, Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela Production. (Spain, Peru) Peru.A Prophet, Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (France, Italy) France.The Secret in Their Eyes, Haddock Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Argentina, Spain) Argentina.The White Ribbon, X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada) Germany.Makeup
Il divo, Indigo Film/Lucky Red/Parco Film/Babe Films Production; MPI Media Group through Music Box. (Italy, France) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano.Star Trek, Bad Robot Production; Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment. (USA, Germany) Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow.Music
(Original Score)
The Hurt Locker, Voltage Pictures Production; Summit Entertainment. Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders.(Original Song)
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. Music and lyric by Randy Newman.Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Walt Disney. Music and lyric by Randy Newman.Loin de Paname from Paris 36, Galatée Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (France, Germany, Czech Republic) Music by Reinhardt Wagner; lyric by Frank Thomas.Take It All from Nine, Weinstein Brothers/Mark Platt/Lucamar/Relativity Media Production; The Weinstein Company. (UK, USA) Music and lyric by Maury Yeston.The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart, Informant Media/Butcher’s Run Films Production; Fox Searchlight. Music and lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.Short Films
(Animated)
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Brown Bag Films Production; Brown Bag Films. (Ireland) Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell.The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production. (Spain) Javier Recio Gracia.(Live Action)
The Door, Octagon Films Production; Network Ireland Television. (Ireland) Juanita Wilson and James Flynn.Instead of Abracadabra, Directörn & Fabrikörn Production; The Swedish Film Institute. (Sweden) Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström.The New Tenants, Park Pictures and M & M Production. (Denmark, USA) Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson.Sound Editing
Avatar, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle.Inglourious Basterds, Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures. (Germany, USA) Wylie Stateman.Star Trek, Bad Robot Production; Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment. (USA, Germany) Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin.Sound Mixing
Avatar, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson.The Hurt Locker, Voltage Pictures Production; Summit Entertainment. Paul N. J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett.Inglourious Basterds, Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures. (Germany, USA) Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano.Star Trek, Bad Robot Production; Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment. (USA, Germany) Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Don Murphy/Tom DeSanto/di Bonaventura Pictures/Ian Bryce Production; DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, distributed by Paramount. Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson.Visual Effects
Avatar, Lightstorm Entertainment Production; 20th Century Fox. (UK, USA) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones.District 9, Block/Hanson Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada) Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken.Star Trek, Bad Robot Production; Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment. (USA, Germany) Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton.Writing
(Adapted Screenplay)
District 9, Block/Hanson Production; Sony Pictures Releasing. (South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada) Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell.An Education, Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, USA) Screenplay by Nick Hornby.In the Loop, Loop Film/BBC Films and UK Film Council in association with Aramid Entertainment Production; IFC Films. (UK) Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche.Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production; Lionsgate. Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher.Up in the Air, Montecito Picture Company Production; Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios. Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner.(Original Screenplay)
Inglourious Basterds, Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; The Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures. (Germany, USA) Written by Quentin Tarantino.The Messenger, All the King’s Horses Production; Oscilloscope Laboratories. Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman.A Serious Man, Working Title Films Production; Focus Features. (USA, UK, France) Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen.Up, Pixar Production; Walt Disney. Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter; story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy.Honorary Award
To Lauren Bacall in recognition of her central place in the golden age of motion pictures. [ [Statuette]]To Roger Corman for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers. [ [Statuette]]To Gordon Willis for unsurpassed mastery of light, shadow, color and motion. [ [Statuette]]NOTE: The Honorary Awards were presented at the 1st Governors Awards ceremony on November 14, 2009, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
NOTE: The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award was presented at the 1st Governors Awards ceremony on November 14, 2009, in the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center.
Scientific and Technical Award
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Per Christensen, Michael Bunnell and Christophe Hery for the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion. Much faster than previous ray-traced methods, this computer graphics technique has enabled color bleeding effects and realistic shadows for complex scenes in motion pictures.To Dr. Richard Kirk for the overall design and development of the Truelight real-time 3D look-up table hardware device and color management software. Through the use of color management software and hardware, this complete system enables accurate color presentation in the digital intermediate preview process. The Truelight system is widely utilized in digital intermediate production environments around the world.To Volker Massmann, Markus Hasenzahl, Dr. Klaus Anderle and Andreas Loew for the development of the Spirit 4K/2K film scanning system as used in the digital intermediate process for motion pictures. The Spirit 4K/2K has distinguished itself by incorporating a continuous-motion transport mechanism enabling full-range, high-resolution scanning at much higher frame rates than non-continuous transport scanners.To Michael Cieslinski, Dr. Reimar Lenz and Bernd Brauner for the development of the ARRISCAN film scanner, enabling high-resolution, high-dynamic range, pin-registered film scanning for use in the digital intermediate process. The ARRISCAN film scanner utilizes a specially designed CMOS array sensor mounted on a micro-positioning platform and a custom LED light source. Capture of the film’s full dynamic range at various scan resolutions is implemented through sub-pixel offsets of the sensor along with multiple exposures of each frame.To Wolfgang Lempp, Theo Brown, Tony Sedivy and Dr. John Quartel for the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process. Developed for the digital intermediate and motion picture visual effects markets, the Northlight scanner was designed with a 6K CCD sensor, making it unique in its ability to produce high-resolution scans of 35mm, 8-perf film frames.To Steve Chapman, Martin Tlaskal, Darrin Smart and Dr. James Logie for their contributions to the development of the Baselight color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process. Baselight was one of the first digital color correction systems to enter the digital intermediate market and has seen wide acceptance in the motion picture industry.To Mark Jaszberenyi, Gyula Priskin and Tamas Perlaki for their contributions to the development of the Lustre color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process. Lustre is a software solution that enables non-linear, real-time digital color grading across an entire feature film, emulating the photochemical color-timing process.To Brad Walker, D. Scott Dewald, Bill Werner and Greg Pettitt for their contributions furthering the design and refinement of the Texas Instruments DLP Projector technology, achieving a level of performance that enabled color-accurate digital intermediate previews of motion pictures. Working in conjunction with the film industry, Texas Instruments created a high-resolution, color-accurate, high-quality digital intermediate projection system that could closely emulate film-based projection in a theatrical environment.To Fujifilm Corporation, Ryoji Nishimura, Masaaki Miki and Youichi Hosoya for the design and development of Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI digital intermediate film, which was designed exclusively to reproduce motion picture digital masters. The Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI Type 8511/4511 digital intermediate film has thinner emulsion layers with extremely efficient couplers made possible by Super-Nano Cubic Grain Technology. This invention allows improved color sensitivity with the ability to absorb scattered light, providing extremely sharp images. The ETERNA-RDI emulsion technology also achieves less color cross-talk for exacting reproduction. Its expanded latitude and linearity provides superior highlights and shadows in a film stock with exceptional latent image stability.To Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins, John Monos and Dr. Mark Sagar for the design and engineering of the Light Stage capture devices and the image-based facial rendering system developed for character relighting in motion pictures. The combination of these systems, with their ability to capture high fidelity reflectance data of human subjects, allows for the creation of photorealistic digital faces as they would appear in any lighting condition.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Mark Wolforth and Tony Sedivy for their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3D look-up table hardware system. Through the use of color management software and hardware, this complete system enables accurate color presentation in the digital intermediate preview process. The Truelight system is widely utilized in digital intermediate production environments around the world.To Dr. Klaus Anderle, Christian Baeker and Frank Billasch for their contributions to the LUTher 3D look-up table hardware device and color management software. The LUTher system was one of the first color look-up table processors to be widely adopted by the pioneering digital intermediate facilities in the industry. This innovation enabled accurate color presentation by facilities that had analyzed projected film output and built 3D look-up tables in order to emulate print film.To Steve Sullivan, Kevin Wooley, Brett Allen and Colin Davidson for the development of the Imocap on-set performance capture system. Developed at Industrial Light & Magic and consisting of custom hardware and software, Imocap is an innovative system that successfully addresses the need for on-set, low-impact performance capture.To Hayden Landis, Ken McGaugh and Hilmar Koch for advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering. Ambient occlusion has enabled a new level of realism in synthesized imagery and has become a standard tool for computer graphics lighting in motion pictures.To Björn Hedén for the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Hedén Lens Motors. Solving a series of problems with one integrated mechanism, this device had an immediate and significant impact on the motion picture industry.NOTE: The Scientific and Technical Awards were presented at their own ceremony on February 20, 2010, in the Ballroom of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.