2009 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

• George Clooney - Up in the Air
• Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
• Ben Foster - The Messenger
• Morgan Freeman - Invictus
• Patton Oswalt - Big Fan
• Jeremy Renner - ''The Hurt Locker''

Best Actress

• Carey Mulligan - An Education
• Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
• Maya Rudolph - Away We Go
• Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
• Meryl Streep - ''Julie and Julia''

Best Animated Film

• Up
• Coraline
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Ponyo
• ''The Princess and the Frog''

Best Cinematography

• Nine - Dion Beebe
• The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd
• Inglourious Basterds - Robert Richardson
• Red Cliff (Chi bi) - Lü Yue and Zhang Li
• A Single Man - Eduard Grau
• Where the Wild Things Are - Lance Acord

Best Director

• Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
• Wes Anderson - The Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Oren Moverman - The Messenger
• Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino - ''Inglourious Basterds''

Best Documentary Film

• Capitalism: A Love Story
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Food, Inc.
• Good Hair
• ''Tyson''

Best Film

• Up in the Air
• (500) Days of Summer
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Invictus
• Precious
• ''Up''

Best Comedy

• The Hangover
• (500) Days of Summer
• Away We Go
• Pirate Radio
• ''Zombieland''

Best Foreign Language Film

• Red Cliff (Chi bi) • China
• The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) • Germany
• Coco Before Chanel (Coco avant Chanel) • France
• The Maid (La nana) • Chile
• Treeless Mountain • South Korea
• Without Name (Sin nombre) • Spain

Best Music

• Nine
• Crazy Heart
• Pirate Radio
• The Princess and the Frog
• ''Up''

Best Screenplay

• (500) Days of Summer - Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
• An Education - Nick Hornby
• The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
• Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
• Up in the Air - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Supporting Actor

• Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
• Robert Duvall - The Road
• Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
• Alfred Molina - An Education
• Stanley Tucci - ''The Lovely Bones''

Best Supporting Actress

• Mo'Nique - Precious
• Marion Cotillard - Nine
• Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
• Mélanie Laurent - Inglourious Basterds
• Samantha Morton - ''The Messenger''

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar
• District 9
• The Lovely Bones
• Star Trek
• ''Where the Wild Things Are''

Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film

• Avatar
• (500) Days of Summer
• District 9
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox
• ''The Lovely Bones''

Favorite Scene

• Up - "Opening marriage montage"
• (500) Days of Summer - "'Expectations vs. reality' split-screen sequence"
• (500) Days of Summer - "'Morning after' dance number"
• Inglourious Basterds - "The opening farmhouse scene"
• Precious - "Mo'Nique's scene at social worker office"