Alternate Oscars—2000s

2000

Best Picture of 2000

Almost Famous

Best in Show

ƒ Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

✔ Gladiator

High Fidelity

★ In the Mood for Love

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Requiem for a Dream

Snatch

Yi Yi

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Best Actor of 2000

★ Christian Bale (American Psycho)

George Clooney (O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Perfect Storm)

✔ Russell Crowe (Gladiator)

Michael Douglas (Wonder Boys and Traffic)

Tom Hanks (Cast Away)

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Best Actress of 2000

Björk (Dancer in the Dark)

Maggie Cheung (In the Mood for Love)

★ Laura Linney (You Can Count on Me)

✔ Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich)

Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

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Best Director of 2000

Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous)

Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

Guy Ritchie (Snatch)

✔ Steven Soderbergh (Traffic and Erin Brockovich)

★ Wong Kar-Wai (In the Mood for Love)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2000

Jack Black (High Fidelity)

★ Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire)

✔ Benicio del Toro (Traffic)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Almost Famous)

Mark Ruffalo (You Can Count on Me)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2000

★ Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream)

✔ Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock)

Kate Hudson (Almost Famous)

Elaine May (Small Time Crooks)

Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon)

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Special Award

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (stunts)

Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O’Hara and Parker Posey (Best in Show) (ensemble cast)

T-Bone Burnett and Carter Burwell (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) (soundtrack)

Dapper Dan (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) (best pomade)

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2001

Best Picture of 2001

Amélie

✔ A Beautiful Mind

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Memento

Moulin Rouge!

★ Mulholland Drive

Ocean's Eleven

The Royal Tenenbaums

Shrek

Y tu mamá también

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Best Actor of 2001

Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind)

Gene Hackman (The Royal Tenenbaums)

John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)

★ Guy Pearce (Memento)

Tom Wilkinson (In The Bedroom)

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Best Actress of 2001

✔ Halle Berry (Monster's Ball)

Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher)

Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge! and The Others)

Audrey Tautou (Amélie)

★ Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive)

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Best Director of 2001

Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums)

✔ Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)

Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!)

★ David Lynch (Mulholland Drive)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2001

✔ Jim Broadbent (Iris, Moulin Rouge! and Bridget Jones's Diary)

Steve Buscemi (Ghost World)

Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast)

★ Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring)

✱ Denzel Washington (Training Day)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2001

✔ Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind)

★ Helen Mirren (Gosford Park)

Gwyneth Paltrow (The Royal Tenenbaums)

Maggie Smith (Gosford Park)

Marisa Tomei (In the Bedroom)

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Special Award

Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) (original screenplay)

Dody Dorn (Memento) (film editing)

Catherine Martin and Angus Strathie (Moulin Rouge!) (costumes)

Peter Owen and Richard Taylor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring) (makeup)

Casey Affleck, Scott Caan, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Elliott Gould, Eddie Jemison, Bernie Mac, Brad Pitt, Shaobo Qin, Carl Reiner and Julia Roberts (Ocean's Eleven) (best ensemble cast)

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2002

Best Picture of 2002

About a Boy

Adaptation

✔ Chicago

City of God

Far From Heaven

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Minority Report

The Pianist

★ @ Spirited Away

Talk to Her

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Best Actor of 2002

✔ Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

★ Nicolas Cage (Adaptation)

Leonardo DiCaprio (Catch Me If You Can)

Hugh Grant (About a Boy)

Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt)

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Best Actress of 2002

Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary)

Salma Hayek (Frida)

★ Julianne Moore (Far from Heaven and The Hours)

Franka Potente (The Bourne Identity)

Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

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Best Director of 2002

Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven)

Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund (City of God)

★ Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away)

Steven Spielberg (Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2002

★ ✔ Chris Cooper (Adaptation)

Alfred Molina (Frida)

John C. Reilly (Chicago)

Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers)

Christopher Walken (Catch Me If You Can)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2002

Toni Collette (About a Boy)

★ ✱ Nicole Kidman (The Hours)

Samantha Morton (Minority Report)

Meryl Streep (Adaptation and The Hours)

✔ Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)

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Special Award

Spirited Away (animated feature)

music by John Kander lyrics by Fred Ebb (Chicago) (adapted song score)

Alex McDowell; Anne Kuljian (Minority Report) (art direction / set decoration)

Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook and Alex Funke (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) (visual effects)

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2003

Best Picture of 2003

Elf

@ Finding Nemo

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

★ ✔ The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Lost in Translation

Love Actually

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Mystic River

Oldboy

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

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Best Actor of 2003

★ Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)

Will Ferrell (Elf)

Bill Murray (Lost in Translation)

✔ Sean Penn (Mystic River and 21 Grams)

Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)

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Best Actress of 2003

Keisha Castle-Hughes (Whale Rider)

Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation and Girl with a Pearl Earring)

Diane Keaton (Something's Gotta Give)

★ ✔ Charlize Theron (Monster)

Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol. 1)

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Best Director of 2003

Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation)

Richard Curtis (Love Actually)

Jon Favreau (Elf)

★ ✔ Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)

Peter Weir (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2003

Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King)

James Caan (Elf)

Ossie Davis (Bubba Ho-Tep)

★ Bill Nighy (Love Actually)

✔ Tim Robbins (Mystic River)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2003

★ Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April and The Station Agent)

Zooey Deschanel (Elf)

Holly Hunter (Thirteen)

Catherine O'Hara (A Mighty Wind)

✔ Renée Zellweger (Cold Mountain)

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Special Award

Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) (original screenplay)

Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson, from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) (adapted screenplay)

Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa) (best bad Santa)

Ed Asner (Elf) (best good Santa)

Bruce Campbell (Bubba Ho-Tep) (best chin)

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2004

Best Picture of 2004

The Aviator

Before Sunset

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

@ The Incredibles

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

★ Mean Girls

✔ Million Dollar Baby

Napoleon Dynamite

Shaun of the Dead

Sideways

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Best Actor of 2004

Jim Carrey (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Aviator)

✔ Jamie Foxx (Ray and Collateral)

★ Paul Giamatti (Sideways)

Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite)

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Best Actress of 2004

★ Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls)

Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake)

✔ Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby)

Uma Thurman (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)

Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

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Best Director of 2004

★ Brad Bird (The Incredibles)

✔ Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby)

Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Richard Linklater (Before Sunset)

Alexander Payne (Sideways)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2004

David Carradine (Kill Bill: Vol. 2)

✔ Morgan Freeman (Million Dollar Baby)

Thomas Haden Church (Sideways)

★ Clive Owen (Closer)

Peter Sarsgaard (Garden State and Kinsey)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2004

✔ Cate Blanchett (The Aviator)

Laura Linney (Kinsey)

★ Virginia Madsen (Sideways)

Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls)

Natalie Portman (Closer and Garden State)

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Special Award

Tina Fey, from the book by Rosalind Wiseman (Mean Girls) (adapted screenplay)

The Incredibles (animated feature)

"No capes!" (The Incredibles) (best fashion advice)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (best fight scene)

Shaun of the Dead (best zombie rom-com)

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2005

Best Picture of 2005

Batman Begins

★ Brokeback Mountain

Caché (Hidden)

✔ Crash

Good Night, and Good Luck

A History of Violence

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Match Point

Sin City

Star Wars Episode III — Revenge of the Sith

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Best Actor of 2005

Pierce Brosnan (The Matador)

★ ✔ Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)

Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)

Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence)

David Straithairn (Good Night, and Good Luck)

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Best Actress of 2005

Joan Allen (The Upside of Anger)

★ Felicity Huffman (Transamerica)

Keira Knightley (Pride & Prejudice)

Naomi Watts (King Kong)

✔ Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)

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Best Director of 2005

Woody Allen (Match Point)

George Clooney (Good Night, and Good Luck)

David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)

★ ✔ Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2005

✔ George Clooney (Syriana)

Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale)

Matt Dillon (Crash)

★ Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)

Val Kilmer (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2005

★ Amy Adams (Junebug)

Maria Bello (A History of Violence)

Hope Davis (The Matador and The Weather Man)

✔ Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener)

Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)

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Special Award

George Clooney & Grant Heslov (Good Night, And Good Luck) (original screenplay)

Richard King (War of the Worlds) (sound effects editing)

Winsleydale (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit) (best cheese)

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2006

Best Picture of 2006

Casino Royale

Children of Men

✔ The Departed

Dreamgirls

Inside Man

The Iwo Jima Saga (Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima)

ƒ The Lives of Others

★ Pan's Labyrinth

The Prestige

The Queen

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Best Actor of 2006

Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan)

Daniel Craig (Casino Royale)

★ Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed and Blood Diamond)

Ulrich Mühe (The Lives of Others)

Clive Owen (Inside Man and Children of Men)

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Best Actress of 2006

Ivana Baquero (Pan's Labyrinth)

Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)

Penélope Cruz (Volver)

Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal)

★ ✔ Helen Mirren (The Queen)

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Best Director of 2006

Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men)

★ Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth)

Spike Lee (Inside Man)

✔ Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2006

✔ Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)

Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls)

Michael Sheen (The Queen)

Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada)

★ ✱ Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2006

Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada)

Vera Farmiga (The Departed)

Eva Green (Casino Royale)

★ ✔ Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)

Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada and A Prairie Home Companion)

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Special Award

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others) (original screenplay)

William Monahan, from the film screenplay Infernal Affairs by Alan Mak & Felix Chong (The Departed) (adapted screenplay)

Eugenio Caballero and Pilar Revuelta (Pan's Labyrinth) (art direction / set decoration)

Dreamgirls (song score)

Frank Cottrell Boyce (as Martin Hardy), from the novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) (funniest adaptation of the most unlikely source material)

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2007

Best Picture of 2007

Atonement

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Gone Baby Gone

Juno

✔ No Country For Old Men

@ Ratatouille

Superbad

★ There Will Be Blood

Transformers

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Best Actor of 2007

Michael Cera (Superbad and Juno)

★ ✔ Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)

Philip Seymour Hoffman (Charlie Wilson's War, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead and The Savages)

Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises)

John C. Reilly (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)

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Best Actress of 2007

Amy Adams (Enchanted)

Drew Barrymore (Music and Lyrics)

Julie Christie (Away From Her)

✔ Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose)

★ Elliot Page (Juno)

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Best Director of 2007

★ Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)

✔ The Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)

Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days)

Jason Reitman (Juno)

Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2007

Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)

★ ✔ Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men)

Ben Foster (3:10 to Yuma)

David Paymer (Ocean's Thirteen)

Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2007

Cate Blanchett (I'm Not There)

Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men)

Saoirse Ronan (Atonement)

★ Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone)

✔ Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton)

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Special Award

Diablo Cody (Juno) (original screenplay)

Paul Thomas Anderson, from the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair (There Will Be Blood) (adapted screenplay)

Paul Rudd, Jack Black, Justin Long and Jason Schwartzman as John, Paul, George and Ringo (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) (best DVD extra)

Music and Lyrics (best spoof of 80s music videos)

"McLovin" (Superbad) (best fake i.d.)

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2008

Best Picture of 2008

★ The Dark Knight

Happy-Go-Lucky

In Bruges

Iron Man

Let the Right One In

Rachel Getting Married

✔ Slumdog Millionaire

@ WALL·E

Waltz with Bashir

The Wrestler

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Best Actor of 2008

★ Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man and Tropic Thunder)

Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon)

Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire)

✔ Sean Penn (Milk)

Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)

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Best Actress of 2008

Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)

★ Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky)

Melissa Leo (Frozen River)

Meryl Streep (Doubt and Mamma Mia)

✔ Kate Winslet (The Reader and Revolutionary Road)

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Best Director of 2008

Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In)

✔ Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)

Mike Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky)

Martin McDonagh (In Bruges)

★ Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2008

Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight)

Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire)

★ ✔ Heath Ledger (The Dark Knight)

Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky)

Brad Pitt (Burn Before Reading)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2008

Amy Adams (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Doubt)

★ ✔ Penélope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Elegy)

Viola Davis (Doubt)

Rosemarie DeWitt (Rachel Getting Married)

Isla Fisher (Definitely, Maybe)

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Special Award

Andrew Stanton & Jim Reardon, from the story by Andrew Stanton & Pete Docter (WALL·E) (original screenplay)

Simon Beaufoy, from the novel Q & A by Vikas Swarup (Slumdog Millionaire) (adapted screenplay)

Wally Pfister (The Dark Knight) (cinematography)

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2009

Best Picture of 2009

Avatar

An Education

✔ The Hurt Locker

★ Inglourious Basterds

Precious: Based On The Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

A Prophet

ƒ The Secret in Their Eyes

@ Up

Up in the Air

The White Ribbon

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Best Actor of 2009

✔ Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)

George Clooney (Up in the Air)

Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes)

Colin Firth (A Single Man)

★ Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

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Best Actress of 2009

✔ Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side and The Proposal)

Zooey Deschanel ((500) Days Of Summer)

★ Carey Mulligan (An Education)

Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

Gabourey Sidibe (Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire)

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Best Director of 2009

✔ Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

James Cameron (Avatar)

Lee Daniels (Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire)

Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

★ Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

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Best Supporting Actor of 2009

Woody Harrelson (Zombieland and The Messenger)

Alfred Molina (An Education)

Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)

Zachary Quinto (Star Trek)

★ ✔ Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

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Best Supporting Actress of 2009

Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)

Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)

Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds)

Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds)

★ ✔ Mo'Nique (Precious: Based On The Novel 'Push' by Sapphire)

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Special Award

Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) (original screenplay)

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, based on the novel by Walter Kim (Up in the Air) (adapted screenplay)

Inglourious Basterds (most reliable history lesson)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. Best animated feature winners are noted with an @. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.

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