Houston Film Critics Society Awards 2009

Best Picture

	The Hurt Locker
	(500) Days of Summer
	Avatar
	District 9
	Inglourious Basterds
	Invictus
	Precious
	Star Trek
	Up
	Up in the Air

Best Direction of a Motion Picture

	Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
	James Cameron - Avatar
	Lee Daniels - Precious
	Clint Eastwood - Invictus
	Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
	Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

	George Clooney - Up in the Air
	Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
	Morgan Freeman - Invictus
	Viggo Mortensen - The Road
	Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

	Carey Mulligan - An Education
	Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
	Abbie Cornish - Bright Star
	Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
	Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
	Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

	Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
	Zach Galifianakis - The Hangover
	Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
	Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles
	Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

	Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
	Penélope Cruz - Nine
	Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
	Mo'Nique - Precious
	Samantha Morton - The Messenger

Best Screenplay

	Up in the Air - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
	The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
	Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
	In the Loop - Jesse Armstrong
	Precious - Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Best Cinematography

	The Hurt Locker - Barry Ackroyd
	Avatar - Mauro Fiore and Vince Pace
	The Lovely Bones - Andrew Lesnie
	Nine - Dion Beebe
	The Road - Javier Aguirresarobe

Best Original Score

	Up - Michael Giacchino
	Avatar - James Horner
	Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat
	The Informant! - Marvin Hamlisch
	Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer

Best Original Song

	"Petey's Song" by Jarvis Cocker, Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr. Fox
	"Almost There" by Randy Newman - The Princess and the Frog
	"Cinema Italiano" by Maury Yeston - Nine
	"Colorblind" by Daniel Po - Invictus
	"Depression Era" by Patterson Hood - That Evening Sun
	"The Weary Kind" by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett - Crazy Heart

Best Foreign Language Film

	Sin Nombre • Spain
	35 Shots of Rum • Canada
	Broken Embraces • Spain
	Cape No. 7 • Taiwan
	Red Cliff • China
	The Stoning of Soraya M. • United States/Iran
	Summer Hours • France

Best Documentary Feature

	The Cove
	Burma VJ
	Capitalism: A Love Story
	Every Little Step
	Food, Inc.
	Tyson

Best Animated Feature Film

	Up
	9
	Coraline
	Fantastic Mr. Fox
	The Princess and the Frog