The 15th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 15, 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium, honoring the finest achievements of 2009 filmmaking. The ceremony was broadcast on VH1 and hosted by Kristin Chenoweth. The nominees were announced on December 14, 2009.
The awards expanded this year from 16 to 24 film categories, adding seven technical categories and separating its screenplay category into adapted and original slots, to more closely mirror the Academy Awards.
The World War II epic Inglourious Basterds and romantic musical drama Nine both received a record ten nominations each, which was unprecedented at the time. Both films received numerous nominations in the awards' new craft categories, benefiting from the recent expansion of the categories. In the following years, this record has been broken several times. Avatar followed close behind with nine nominations and won the most awards of the night with a then-record-breaking six wins.
Winners and nominees
The Hurt Locker Avatar An Education Inglourious Basterds Invictus Nine Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker James Cameron – Avatar Lee Daniels – Precious Clint Eastwood – Invictus Jason Reitman – Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Otis "Bad" Blake George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela Viggo Mortensen – The Road as Man Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sergeant First Class William James Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy (TIE)Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child (TIE) Emily Blunt – The Young Victoria as Queen Victoria Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Mellor Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones as Susie Salmon Gabourey Sidibe – Precious as Claireece "Precious" Jones Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa Matt Damon – Invictus as Francois Pienaar Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Captain Tony Stone Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles as Orson Welles Alfred Molina – An Education as Jack Meller Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey Mo'Nique – Precious as Mary Lee Johnston Marion Cotillard – Nine as Luisa Acari Contini Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener Julianne Moore – A Single Man as Charley Roberts Samantha Morton – The Messenger as Olivia Pitterson Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones as Susie Salmon Jae Head – The Blind Side as S.J. Tuohy Bailee Madison – Brothers as Isabelle Cahill Max Records – Where the Wild Things Are as Max Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Road as Boy Inglourious Basterds Nine Precious Star Trek Up in the Air Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino (500) Days of Summer – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Up – Pete Docter and Bob Peterson | valign="top" width="50%" | Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell An Education – Nick Hornby Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach Precious – Geoffrey S. Fletcher A Single Man – Tom Ford and David Scearce |- | valign="top" width="50%" | Up Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Coraline Fantastic Mr. Fox The Princess and the Frog The Cove Anvil! The Story of Anvil Capitalism: A Love Story Food, Inc. Michael Jackson's This Is It Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Star Trek The Hangover (500) Days of Summer It's Complicated The Proposal Zombieland Broken Embraces • Spain Coco Before Chanel • France Red Cliff • China Sin nombre • Mexico / United States The White Ribbon • Austria / France / Germany / Italy | valign="top" width="50%" | Avatar – Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Production Design) / Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration) Inglourious Basterds – David Wasco (Production Design) / Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (Set Decoration) The Lovely Bones – Naomi Shohan (Production Design) / George DeTitta Jr. (Set Decoration) Nine – John Myhre (Production Design) / Gordon Sim (Set Decoration) A Single Man – Dan Bishop (Production Design) / Amy Wells (Set Decoration) |- | valign="top" width="50%" | Avatar – Mauro Fiore The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson The Lovely Bones – Andrew Lesnie Nine – Dion Beebe | valign="top" width="50%" | The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell Bright Star – Janet Patterson Inglourious Basterds – Anna B. Sheppard Nine – Colleen Atwood Where the Wild Things Are – Casey Storm |- | valign="top" width="50%" | Avatar – James Cameron, John Refoua, and Stephen E. Rivkin The Hurt Locker – Chris Innis and Bob Murawski Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke Nine – Claire Simpson and Wyatt Smith Up in the Air – Dana E. Glauberman | valign="top" width="50%" | District 9 Avatar Nine The Road Star Trek Up – Michael Giacchino The Informant! – Marvin Hamlisch The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer Where the Wild Things Are – Carter Burwell and Karen O | valign="top" width="50%" | "The Weary Kind" – Crazy Heart "All Is Love" – Where the Wild Things Are "Almost There" – The Princess and the Frog "Cinema Italiano" – Nine "(I Want to) Come Home" – Everybody's Fine Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Nine Star Trek Avatar 2012 District 9 The Lovely Bones Star Trek
Joel Siegel Award Kevin Bacon
Best Picture Made for Television Grey Gardens Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Into the Storm Taking Chance
Statistics Nominations Film 10 Inglourious Basterds Nine 9 Avatar 8 The Hurt Locker Up in the Air 6 The Lovely Bones Precious 5 District 9 Star Trek 4 An Education Invictus A Single Man Up Where the Wild Things Are 3 The Princess and the Frog The Road 2 (500) Days of Summer The Blind Side Crazy Heart Fantastic Mr. Fox The Messenger A Serious Man The Young Victoria
Wins Film 6 Avatar 3 Inglourious Basterds 2 Crazy Heart The Hurt Locker Up
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