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2009 Award Winners  | 2009 Awards Gala

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Best Film

Up in the Air  

Best Director

Clint Eastwood 

Invictus  

Best Actor

George Clooney, Morgan Freeman 

Up in the Air, Invictus  

Best Actress

Carey Mulligan 

An Education  

Best Supporting Actor

Woody Harrelson 

The Messenger  

Best Supporting Actress

Anna Kendrick 

Up in the Air 

Best Foreign Language Film

A Prophet  

Best Animated Film

Up 

Best Documentary

The Cove 

Best Original Screenplay

Joel Coen  Ethan Coen 

A Serious Man  

Best Adapted Screenplay

Jason Reitman  Sheldon Turner 

Up in the Air 

Best Ensemble Cast

It's Complicated  

Breakthrough Performance

Jeremy Renner 

The Hurt Locker 

Breakthrough Performance

Gabourey Sidibe 

Precious  

Freedom of Expression

Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country, Invictus, The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 

William K. Everson Award for Film History

Jean Picker Firstenberg 

Special Achievement in Filmmaking

Wes Anderson 

The Fantastic Mr. Fox  

Top Films

An Education  (500) Days of Summer  The Hurt Locker  Inglorious Basterds  Invictus  The Messenger  A Serious Man  Star Trek  Up  Where the Wild Things Are 

Top 10 Independent Films

Amreeka  District 9  Goodbye Solo  Humpday  In the Loop  Julia  Me and Orson Welles  Moon  Sugar  Two Lovers 

Top 5 Foreign Language Films

The Maid   Revanche  Song of Sparrows  Three Monkeys  The White Ribbon 

Top 5 Documentaries

Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country  Crude  Food Inc  Good Hair  The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 

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