Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

Cinema-Scene Awards

2009



 

Best Picture
#1: The White Ribbon (dir: Michael Haneke)
#2: The Road (dir: John Hillcoat)
#3: A Single Man (dir: Tom Ford)
#4: Summer Hours (dir: Olivier Assayas)
#5: Where the Wild Things Are (dir: Spike Jonze)
#6: Broken Embraces (dir: Pedro Almodóvar)
#7: The Headless Woman (dir: Lucretia Martel)
#8: Inglourious Basterds (dir: Quentin Tarantino)
#9: Revanche (dir: Götz Spielmann)
#10: Police, Adjective (dir: Corneliu Porumboiu)

Honorable Mentions: Still Walking (dir: Hirakazu Kore-eda), Fantastic Mr. Fox (dir: Wes Anderson), The Sun (dir: Aleksandr Sokurov), Julia (dir: Erick Zonca), Gomorrah (dir: Matteo Garrone), Sin Nombre (dir: Cary Joji Fukunaga), 35 Shots of Rum (dir: Claire Denis), You, the Living (dir: Roy Andersson), Three Monkeys (dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan), Tokyo Sonata (Kiyoshi Kurosawa), The Girlfriend Experience (dir: Steven Soderberg), Avatar (dir: James Cameron), Tetro (dir: Francis Ford Coppola), Thirst (dir: Park Chan-wook), District 9 (dir: Neil Blomkamp), The Limits of Control (dir: Jim Jarmusch), (500) Days of Summer (dir: Marc Webb), The Brothers Bloom (dir: Rian Johnson), Lorna's Silence (dir: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne), and Coraline (dir: Henry Selick)
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Best Director
#1: John Hillcoat (The Road)
#2: Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
#3: Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon)
#4: Tom Ford (A Single Man)
#5: Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are)


Best Actor
#1: Colin Firth (A Single Man)
#2: Viggo Mortensen (The Road)
#3: Johannes Krisch (Revanche)
#4: George Clooney (Up in the Air)
#5: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)


Best Actress
#1: Tilda Swinton (Julia)
#2: María Onetto (The Headless Woman)
#3: Carey Mulligan (An Education)
#4: Penélope Cruz (Broken Embraces)
#5: Michelle Williams (Mammoth)


Best Supporting Actor
#1: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
#2: Burghart Kaußner (The White Ribbon)
#3: Christian Friedel (The White Ribbon)
#4: Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds)
#5: Andreas Lust (Revanche)


Best Supporting Actress
#1: Julianne Moore (A Single Man)
#2: Edith Scob (Summer Hours)
#3: Ursula Strauss (Revanche)
#4: Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds)
#5: Charlize Theron (The Road)


Best Original Screenplay
#1: The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
#2: Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
#3: Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)
#4: Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar)
#5: The Headless Woman (Lucretia Martel)


Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: The Road (Joe Penhall)
#2: A Single Man (Tom Ford and David Scearce)
#3: Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers)
#4: Julia (Roger Bohbot, Michael Collins, Aude Py, and Erick Zonca)
#5: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach)


Best Cinematography
#1: Javier Aguirresarobe (The Road)
#2: Robert Richardon (Inglourious Basterds)
#3: Anthony Dod Mantle (Antichrist)
#4: Eduard Grau (A Single Man)
#5: Mauro Fiore (Avatar)


Best Film Editing
#1: Watchmen
#2: Fantastic Mr. Fox
#3: Inglourious Basterds
#4: Avatar
#5: (500) Days of Summer


Best Original Score
#1: Where the Wild Things Are (Carter Burwell and Karen O)
#2: The Road (Nick Cave and Warren Ellis)
#3: A Single Man (Abel Korzeniowski)
#4: Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
#5: The Box (Win Butler, Régine Chassagne, and Owen Pallett)


Best Original Song
#1: "All Is Love" (Where the Wild Things Are)
#2: "Hideaway" (Where the Wild Things Are)
#3: "Smoke Without Fire" (An Education)
#4: "The Weary Kind" (Crazy Heart)
#5: "Other Father Song" (Coraline)


Best Production Design
#1: The Road
#2: Inglourious Basterds
#3: District 9
#4: Where the Wild Things Are
#5: Avatar


Best Costume Design
#1: Inglourious Basterds
#2: The Road
#3: Watchmen
#4: Star Trek
#5: A Single Man


Best Makeup
#1: The Road
#2: Inglourious Basterds
#3: Watchmen
#4: Drag Me to Hell
#5: District 9


Best Sound
#1: Watchmen
#2: Inglourious Basterds
#3: The Road
#4: Where the Wild Things Are
#5: Il Divo


 

Best Visual Effects
#1: Avatar
#2: Watchmen
#3: District 9
#4: 9
#5: Star Trek

 

--The Honorary Awards--

Best Breakthrough Performance - Male
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
María Onetto (The Headless Woman)


Best First Feature
Tom Ford (A Single Man)


Worst Film of the Year
The Collector (dir: Marcus Dunstan)
by David L. Blaylock