2009: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Two Lovers (dir: James Gray; US release date)

2. Police, Adjective (dir: Corneliu Porumboiu; US release date)

3. Inglourious Basterds (dir: Quentin Tarantino)

4. 35 Shots of Rum (dir: Claire Denis; US release date)

5. In the Loop (dir: Armando Iannucci)

6. Bright Star (dir: Jane Campion)

7. A Serious Man (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)

8. Drag Me to Hell (dir: Sam Raimi)

9. Still Walking (dir: Hirokazu Koreeda; US release date)

10. The White Ribbon (dir: Michael Haneke)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): An Education (dir: Lone Scherfig), Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call: New Orleans (dir: Werner Herzog), Bronson (dir: Nicolas Winding Refn), Coraline (dir: Henry Selick), Fantastic Mr. Fox (dir: Wes Anderson), Fish Tank (dir: Andrea Arnold), I Love You, Man (dir: John Hamburg), The Headless Woman (dir: Lucrecia Martel; US release date), The Informant! (dir: Steven Soderbergh), Jennifer's Body (dir: Karyn Kusama), Julia (dir: Erick Zonca), A Single Man (dir: Tom Ford), Summer Hours (dir: Olivier Assayas) Where the Wild Things Are (dir: Spike Jonze) and White Material (dir: Claire Denis)

Best Film of the Year: Two Lovers
Director: James Gray Producer: Donna Gigliotti, James Gray, Anthony Katagas
US Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

Best Director:
James Gray, Two Lovers
2. Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
3. Claire Denis, 35 Shots of Rum
4. Jane Campion, Bright Star
5. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best Actor:
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
2. Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call — New Orleans
3. Colin Firth, A Single Man
4. Tom Hardy, Bronson
5. Peter Sarsgaard, An Education

Best Actress:
Tilda Swinton, Julia
2. Carey Mulligan, An Education
3. Penelope Cruz, Broken Embraces
4. Isabelle Huppert, White Material
5. Maria Onetto, The Headless Woman

Best Supporting Actor:
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
2. Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds AND Fish Tank
3. Christian Friedel, The White Ribbon
4. James Gandolfini, In the Loop
5. Burghart Klaussner, The White Ribbon

Best Supporting Actress:
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
2. Mimi Kennedy, In the Loop
3. Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds
4. Edith Scob, Summer Hours
5. Sari Lennick, A Serious Man

Best Original Screenplay:
Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
2. Police, Adjective — Corneliu Porumboiu
3. A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
4. The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke
5. Still Walking — Hirokazu Koreeda

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Bright Star – Jane Campion
2. In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche
3. The Informant! — Scott Z. Burns
4. An Education — Nick Hornsby
5. A Single Man – Tom Ford and David Scearce

Best Cinematography:
Bright Star — Greig Fraser
2. Watchmen — Larry Fong
3. Where the Wild Things Are – Lance Acord
4. Inglourios Basterds — Ralph Richardson
5. The Limits of Control – Christopher Doyle

Best Original Score:
The Informant! – Marvin Hamlisch
2. The Road – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
3. A Single Man – Abel Korzeniowski
4. Coraline – Bruno Coulais
5. The Box – Win Butler, Regine Chassagne and Owen Pallett

Best Film Editing:
Drag Me to Hell – Bob Murawski
2. Watchmen – William Hoy
3. The White Ribbon – Monika Willi
4. 35 Shots of Rum — Guy Lecorne
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox – Ralph Foster and Stephen Perkins

Best Production Design:
Where the Wild Things Are – K.K. Barrett and Lisa Thompson
2. Watchmen — Alex McDowell and Jim Erickson
3. The White Ribbon – Christoph Kanter and Heike Wolf
4. Inglourious Basterds — David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
5. The Road — Chris Kennedy and Robert Greenfield

Best Costume Design:
Bright Star — Janet Patterson
2. Watchmen — Michael Wilkinson
3. Inglourious Basterds — Anna B. Sheppard
4. Public Enemies — Colleen Atwood
5.  An Education — Odile Dicks-Mireaux

Best Visual Effects
Watchmen*
2. Avatar
3. District 9

*best, not most 😉

Best Sound
Public Enemies
2. Watchmen
3. The Hurt Locker

Best Makeup
Drag Me to Hell
2. Watchmen
3. Star Trek

Best Documentary Feature:
Lucian Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, Sweetgrass

Best Animated Feature:
Wes Anderson, Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Limited Series:
Tony Grisoni, Julian Jarrold, James Marsh, Anad Tucker, Wendy Brazington, Andrew Eaton, and Anita Overland, Red Riding Trilogy

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Inglourious Basterds

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Armando Iannucci, In the Loop

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Quentin Tarantino; in alphabetical order): Daniel Bruhl, August Diehl, Omar Doom, Michael Fassbender, Jacky Ido, Diane Kruger (pictured), Melanie Laurent, Denis Menochet, Mike Myers, B.J. Novak, Brad Pitt (pictured), Eli Roth, Til Schweiger and Christoph Waltz

Best First Feature: Peter Capaldi and James Gandolfini in Armando Iannucci's In the Loop

RECAP

W I N S :

Bright Star — 3, Inglourious Basterds — 3, Two Lovers — 3,
Drag Me to Hell — 2, Fantastic Mr. Fox — 1, In the Loop — 1, The Informant! — 1, Julia — 1, Public Enemies — 1, Red Riding Trilogy — 1, A Single Man — 1, Sweetgrass — 1, Watchmen — 1, Where the Wild Things Are — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Inglourious Basterds — 10,
Watchmen — 7, The White Ribbon — 6, In the Loop — 5, Bright Star — 4, An Education — 4, A Serious Man — 4, A Single Man — 4, 35 Shots of Rum — 3, Drag Me to Hell — 3, Two Lovers — 3, Fantastic Mr. Fox — 2, The Informant! — 2, Police, Adjective — 2, Public Enemies — 2, The Road — 2, Still Walking — 2, Where the Wild Things Are — 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s