The 14th San Diego Film Critics Society Awards were announced on December 15, 2009.^[1][2]

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Colin Firth — A Single Man

• George Clooney — Up in the Air
• Matt Damon — The Informant!
• Ben Foster — The Messenger
• Christian McKay — Me and Orson Welles
• Viggo Mortensen — The Road
• Jeremy Renner — The Hurt Locker

Best Actress

Michelle Monaghan — Trucker

• Sandra Bullock — The Blind Side
• Abbie Cornish — Bright Star
• Carey Mulligan — An Education
• Meryl Streep — Julie & Julia

Best Animated Film

Up

• 9
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Monsters vs. Aliens

Best Cinematography

The Road — Javier Aguirresarobe

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Bruno Delbonnel
• The Hurt Locker — Barry Ackroyd
• Inglourious Basterds — Robert Richardson
• A Single Man — Eduard Grau
• The Young Victoria — Hagen Bogdanski

Best Director

Quentin Tarantino — Inglourious Basterds

• Kathryn Bigelow — The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron — Avatar
• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen — A Serious Man
• Tom Ford — A Single Man
• Jason Reitman — Up in the Air

Best Documentary

The Cove

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Capitalism: A Love Story
• Food, Inc.
• Valentino: The Last Emperor

Best Editing

(500) Days of Summer — Alan Edward Bell

• District 9 — Julian Clarke
• Inglourious Basterds — Sally Menke
• The Hurt Locker — Bob Murawski
• Zombieland — Peter Amundson and Alan Baumgarten

Best Ensemble Performance

Inglourious Basterds

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• In the Loop
• The Messenger
• A Serious Man
• Up in the Air
• Zombieland

Best Film

Inglourious Basterds

• (500) Days of Summer
• The Hurt Locker
• A Single Man
• Up in the Air

Best Foreign Language Film

Il Divo • Italy

• Amreeka • USA/Canada
• Captain Abu Raed • Jordan
• Lemon Tree (Etz Limon) • Israel/Germany/France
• Red Cliff (Chi bi) • China
• Sin Nombre • Spain
• The Stoning of Soraya M. • USA
• Thirst (Bakjwi) • South Korea
• Treeless Mountain • South Korea

Best Production Design

Inglourious Basterds — David Wasco

• Avatar — Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince — Stuart Craig
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — Anastasia Masaro
• Me and Orson Welles — Laurence Dorman
• A Single Man — Dan Bishop
• Where the Wild Things Are — K. K. Barrett

Best Score

A Single Man — Abel Korzeniowski

• (500) Days of Summer — Mychael Danna and Rob Simonsen
• Fantastic Mr. Fox — Alexandre Desplat
• Up — Michael Giacchino
• Where the Wild Things Are — Carter Burwell and Karen O
• The Young Victoria — Ilan Eshkeri

Best Original Screenplay

Inglourious Basterds — Quentin Tarantino

• (500) Days of Summer — Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
• The Messenger — Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
• A Serious Man — Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up — Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

Best Adapted Screenplay

Fantastic Mr. Fox — Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach

• The Informant! — Scott Z. Burns
• Julie & Julia — Nora Ephron
• A Single Man — Tom Ford and David Scearce
• Up in the Air — Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz — Inglourious Basterds

• Woody Harrelson — The Messenger
• John Malkovich — The Great Buck Howard
• Paul Schneider — Bright Star
• Stanley Tucci — The Lovely Bones

Best Supporting Actress

Samantha Morton — The Messenger

• Vera Farmiga — Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick — Up in the Air
• Mélanie Laurent — Inglourious Basterds
• Mo'Nique — Precious

Body of Work

Woody Harrelson — The Messenger, Zombieland and 2012