Top 10 Films

1. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
2. The Princess and the Frog
3. Up In The Air
   Up in the Air (film)
   Up in the Air is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name, written by Walter Kirn. The story is about a corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham and his travels...
   
   
4. The Hurt Locker
   The Hurt Locker
   The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
   
   
5. This Is It
6. American Violet
   American Violet
   American Violet is a 2009 drama directed by Tim Disney and starring Nicole Beharie. The story is based on Regina Kelly, a victim of Texas police drug enforcement tactics.-Plot:...
   
   
7. Goodbye Solo
   Goodbye Solo
   Goodbye Solo is a 2008 American independent film written and directed by Ramin Bahrani. It premiered as an official selection of the 2008 Venice Film Festival where it won the international film critic's FIPRESCI award for best film, and later had its North American premiere at the 2008 Toronto...
   
   
8. Medicine for Melancholy
9. Good Hair
   Good Hair
   Good Hair is a 2009 American comedy documentary film produced by Chris Rock Productions and HBO Films, starring and narrated by comedian Chris Rock. Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2009, Good Hair was released to select theaters in the United States by Roadside Attractions...
   
   
10. Up
    Up (2009 film)
    Up is a 2009 American computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and opened the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first animated and 3D film...
    
    

Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman is an American actor, film director, aviator and narrator. He is noted for his reserved demeanor and authoritative speaking voice. Freeman has received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Street Smart, Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus and won...
    
     - Invictus
    Invictus (film)
    Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports drama film directed by Clint Eastwood starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon.The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation about the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World...
    
    
• Best Actress:
  • Nicole Beharie
    Nicole Beharie
    Nicole Beharie is an American actress, born in West Palm Beach Florida on January 3, 1985.-Early life:She graduated from South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities, where she received a scholarship...
    
     - American Violet
    American Violet
    American Violet is a 2009 drama directed by Tim Disney and starring Nicole Beharie. The story is based on Regina Kelly, a victim of Texas police drug enforcement tactics.-Plot:...
    
    
• Best Director:
  • Lee Daniels
    Lee Daniels
    Lee Louis Daniels is an American actor, film producer, and director. He produced Monster's Ball and directed the film Precious, which received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director; the film won two of the awards.-Early years:Daniels was born on Christmas Eve, 1959, in...
    
     - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Best Picture:
  • Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Best Screenplay: (tie)
  • Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire - Geoffrey S. Fletcher
    Geoffrey S. Fletcher
    Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher is an American screenwriter, film director, and adjunct film professor at Columbia University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, New York...
    
    
  • The Princess and the Frog - Ron Clements
    Ron Clements
    Ronald Francis "Ron" Clements is an American animation director and producer. He is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with John Musker.-Life and career:...
    
    , Rob Edwards & John Musker
    John Musker
    John Musker is an American animation director. Along with Ron Clements, he makes up the duo of one of the Disney animation studio's leading director teams.-Life and career:...
    
    
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Anthony Mackie
    Anthony Mackie
    Anthony Mackie is an American actor. He has been featured in feature films, television series and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play, and Talk, by Carl Hancock Rux, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002.In 2002 he featured...
    
     - The Hurt Locker
    The Hurt Locker
    The Hurt Locker is a 2009 American war film about a three-man United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team during the Iraq War. The film was directed by Kathryn Bigelow and the screenplay was written by Mark Boal, a freelance writer who was embedded as a journalist in 2004 with a US bomb...
    
    
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire