Monday, October 6, 2025

The 2009 NBP Film Community Award Winners

As heard yesterday on the podcast, we announced the NBP Film Community Award Winners for 2009. For those who did not hear the winners read out loud on the show, we have provided a complete list below for you to check out. We had over 1200 people contribute towards these final votes, and we cannot thank you enough for all the support you’ve shown us throughout our 2009 retrospective! We will return with our staff-voted NBP Film Awards this Sunday and our final throwback podcast review of the year’s Oscar Best Picture winner, “The Hurt Locker,” later this week.

​Congratulations on your winners!

BEST PICTURE
Avatar (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Coraline
District 9
Fantastic Mr. Fox (RUNNER-UP TIE)
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds (WINNER)
Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

BEST DIRECTOR
Wes Anderson – Fantastic Mr. Fox
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (WINNER)
James Cameron – Avatar
Spike Jonze – Where The Wild Things Are
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds (RUNNER-UP)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox (WINNER)
Mary & Max
Up (RUNNER-UP)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
Anvil! The Story Of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove (WINNER)
Food, Inc. (RUNNER-UP)
Michael Jackson’s This Is It

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces
A Prophet
The Secret In Their Eyes (RUNNER-UP)
Sin Nombre
The White Ribbon (WINNER)

BEST ACTION FILM
Avatar (WINNER)
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds (RUNNER-UP)
Sherlock Holmes
Watchmen

BEST COMEDY FILM
(500) Days Of Summer
Fantastic Mr. Fox (RUNNER-UP)
The Hangover (WINNER)
A Serious Man
Zombieland

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR FILM
District 9 (WINNER)
Drag Me To Hell
Moon
The Road
Star Trek (RUNNER-UP)

BEST OVERLOOKED FILM
Adventureland
Jennifer’s Body
Mary & Max (RUNNER-UP)
Two Lovers
Where The Wild Things Are (WINNER)

BEST ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Mélanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
Carey Mulligan – An Education (RUNNER-UP)
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire (WINNER)
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up In The Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man (RUNNER-UP)
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man (WINNER)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Vera Farmiga – Up In The Air
Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air
Diane Kruger – Inglourious Basterds (RUNNER-UP)
Mo’Nique – Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire (WINNER)
Julianne Moore – A Single Man

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Anthony Mackie – The Hurt Locker (RUNNER-UP)
Alfred Molina – An Education
Stanley Tucci – Julie & Julia
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds (WINNER)

BEST ENSEMBLE
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds (WINNER)
Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire
Star Trek
Up In The Air (RUNNER-UP)

BEST BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE
Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air
Mélanie Laurent – Inglourious Basterds
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire (RUNNER-UP)
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds (WINNER)

BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE
Ed Asner – Up (WINNER)
George Clooney – Fantastic Mr. Fox (RUNNER-UP)
Dakota Fanning – Coraline
James Gandolfini – Where The Wild Things Are
Zoe Saldana – Avatar

BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE
Isabelle Fuhrman – Orphan (RUNNER-UP)
Bailee Madison – Brothers
Max Records – Where The Wild Things Are
Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones (WINNER)
Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Road

BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR
Neill Blomkamp – District 9 (WINNER)
Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart
Tom Ford – A Single Man (RUNNER-UP)
Duncan Jones – Moon
Marc Webb – (500) Days Of Summer

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
An Education
District 9
Fantastic Mr. Fox (WINNER)
Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire
Up In The Air (RUNNER-UP)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds (WINNER)
A Serious Man (RUNNER-UP)
Up

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar (WINNER)
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds (RUNNER-UP)
Where The Wild Things Are

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star
The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus (RUNNER-UP)
Inglourious Basterds (WINNER)
Nine
Sherlock Holmes

BEST FILM EDITING
(500) Days Of Summer
Avatar
The Hurt Locker (WINNER)
Inglourious Basterds (RUNNER-UP)
Up In The Air

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
District 9 (RUNNER-UP)
Drag Me To Hell
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince
The Road
Star Trek (WINNER)

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Avatar (RUNNER-UP)
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox (WINNER)
Inglourious Basterds
Sherlock Holmes

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Avatar (RUNNER-UP)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Sherlock Holmes
Where The Wild Things Are
Up (WINNER)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Avatar – “I See You”
Crazy Heart – “The Weary Kind” (RUNNER-UP)
The Princess And The Frog – “Almost There” (WINNER)
The Princess And The Frog – “Down In New Orleans”
Where The Wild Things Are – “All I Love”

BEST SOUND EDITING
Avatar (WINNER)
District 9
The Hurt Locker (RUNNER-UP)
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

BEST SOUND MIXING
Avatar (RUNNER-UP)
District 9
The Hurt Locker (WINNER)
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar (WINNER)
District 9
Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (RUNNER-UP TIE)
Star Trek
Watchmen (RUNNER-UP TIE)

WIN TALLY
Inglourious Basterds – 6
Avatar – 4
Fantastic Mr. Fox – 3
The Hurt Locker – 3
District 9 – 2
Precious: Based On The Novel “Push” By Sapphire – 2
Up – 2
The Cove – 1
The Hangover – 1
The Lovely Bones – 1
The Princess And The Frog – 1
A Serious Man – 1
Star Trek – 1
Where The Wild Things Are – 1
The White Ribbon – 1

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Matt Neglia
Matt Negliahttps://nextbestpicture.com/
Obsessed about the Oscars, Criterion Collection and all things film 24/7. Critics Choice Member.

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