2009 in Films
Films List of 2009 ( + awards)
Since I decided to organize my 2010 films list, I finally went back and did the same for 2009 cause I saw A LOT of films and was terrible at updating and organizing the list last year. So yay, better late than never I guess! It was actually pretty fun to go back to 2009 and re-visit everything. Have a look if you're up for a little walk down memory lane.. lol, to last year.
Films of 2009 (In Chronological Order)
Bold = Films with A- or above grades
Bride Wars (2009, Winick) | D
Coraline (2009, Selick) | B
He's Just Not That Into You (2009, Kwapis) | C-
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009, Hogan) | C
Two Lovers (2009, Gray) | B+
Watchmen (2009, Snyder) | B
Sunshine Cleaning (2009, Jeffs) | B+
Duplicity (2009, Gilroy) | B
Knowing (2009, Proyas) | C-
I Love You, Man (2009, Hamburg) | B+
The Great Buck Howard (2009, McGinly) | C+
Adventureland (2009, Mottola) | B
17 Again (2009, Steers) | B-
State of Play (2009, Macdonald) | B
The Soloist (2009, Wright) | C+
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Hood) | C
Star Trek (2009, Abrams) | A-
Julia (2008, Zonca) | B
Angels and Demons (2009, Howard) | B-
The Brothers Bloom (2009, Johnson) | B+
Terminator Salvation (2009, McG) | C
Easy Virture (2008, Elliot) | C+
Drag Me to Hell (2009, Raimi) | B
Up (2009, Docter) | A
The Hangover (2009, Phillips) | B+
Away We Go (2009, Mendes) | B-
Food Inc (2009, Kenner) | A-
The Proposal (2009, Fletcher) | B
Moon (2009, Jones) | A-
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Bay) | F
Whatever Works (2009, Allen) | C
Cheri (2009, Frears) | B-
The Hurt Locker (2009, Bigelow) | A
The Stoning of Soraya (2009, Nowrasteh) | B+
Public Enemies (2009, Mann) | B
Bruno (2009, Charles) | C
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, Yates) | B
(500) Days of Summer (2009, Webb) | A-
Orphan (2009, Collet-Serra) | B
The Ugly Truth (2009, Luketic) | D+
In the Loop (2009, Iannucci) | A
Adam (2009, Mayer) | B
The Cove (2009, Psihoyos) | A
GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra (2009, Sommers) | C
Julie and Julia (2009, Ephron) | B
District 9 (2009, Blomkamp) | B+
Ponyo (2009, Miyazaki) | B+
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009, Swentke) | C+
Inglourious Basterds (2009, Tarantino) | A+
Big Fan (2009, Siegal) | B+
35 Shots of Rum (2009, Denis) | A-
The Informant! (2009, Soderbergh) | B+
Bright Star (2009, Campion) | A-
Coco Before Chanel (2009, Fontaine) | B-
Captialism: A Love Story (2009, Moore) | B
Whip It (2009, Barrymore) | B+
Zombieland (2009, Fleisher) | B
A Serious Man (2009, Coens) | A
Bronson (2009, Refn) | B
The Damned United (2009, Hooper) | B+
An Education (2009, Scherfig) | B+
Where the Wild Things Are (2009, Jonze) | A-
Amelia (2009, Nair) | C
Anitchrist (2009, Von Trier) | C+
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009, Heslov) | B-
Precious (2009, Daniels) | B+
2012 (2009, Emmerich) | C
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009, Anderson) | A
The Messenger (2009, Moverman) | B+
The Young Victoria (2009, Vallee) | B+
The Blind Side (2009, Hancock) | C+
Broken Embraces (2009, Almodovar) | B
The Princess and the Frog (2009, Musker & Clements) | B
The Road (2009, Hillcoat) | A-
Brothers (2009, Sheridan) | B-
Me and Orson Welles (2009, Linklater) | B+
Up in the Air (2009, Reitman) | B+
Invictus (2009, Eastwood) | B
A Single Man (2009, Ford) | A
Nine (2009, Marshall) | C+
Avatar (2009, Cameron) | B-
The Lovely Bones (2009, Jackson) | C
The Last Station (2009, Hoffman) | B
It's Complicated (2009, Meyers) | C
Sherlock Holmes (2009, Ritchie) | B-
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009, Gilliam) | B
The White Ribbon (2009, Haneke) | A
Crazy Heart (2009, Cooper) | B+
Top Performances
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Matt Damon, The Informant!
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
Tom Hardy, Bronson
Viggo Mortensen, The Road
Joaquin Phoenix, Two Lovers
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Sam Rockwell, Moon
Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
Best Actress
Amy Adams, Sunshine Cleaning
Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Stoning of Soraya
Abbie Cornish, Bright Star
Penelope Cruz, Broken Embraces
Charlotte Gainbourgh, Antichrist
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Michelle Pfieffer, Cheri
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie and Julia
Tilda Swinton, Julia
Best Supporting Actor
Peter Capaldi, In the Loop
Michael Fassbender, Inglourious Basterds
Zack Galifianakis, The Hangover
James Gandolfini, In the Loop
Anthony Mackie, The Hurt Locker
Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
Zachary Quinto, Star Trek
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Road
Paul Schneider, Bright Star
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress
Leonie Benech, The White Ribbon
Emily Blunt, Sunshine Cleaning
Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Melanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
Monique, Precious
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Samantha Morton, The Messenger
Meryl Streep, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Olivia Williams, An Education
Most Overrated
Avatar
The Blind Side
Most Underrated
The Road
The Informant!
Moon
Where the Wild Things Are
Bright Star
Most Disappointing
The Lovely Bones
Nine
Best Performance in a Bad Movie
Marion Cotillard, Nine
Saoirse Ronan, The Lovely Bones
Worst Performance in a Good Movie
Eli Roth, Inglourious Basterds (sorry dude, you're just not an actor)
Best Performance of Limited Screen Time
Charlize Theron, The Road
Ralph Fiennes, The Hurt Locker
Oscar Nominated for the Wrong Movie
Matt Damon
Penelope Cruz
Most Memorable Scenes
The first chapter of Inglourious Basterds
The slow-motion bomb scene in The Hurt Locker
The lecture hall in A Serious Man
"You make my dreams come true" in (500) Days of Summer
Best Score/Soundtracks
Inglourious Basterds
Bright Star
A Single Man
Up
Best Minor Character
"Fluorescent Beige" girl from Precious
Movie Title Confusion Award
A Serious Man and A Single Man
9, District 9 and Nine
Up and Up in the Air
Most Obvious Oscar Clip Line
"This is our destiny!", Invictus
Best Lines
"Sorry, sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing so I'll sort that out. You are a boring F, star, star, CUNT! ", In the Loop
"I didn't know they gave out rings at the Holocaust", The Hangover
"That's a bingo!", Inglourious Basterds
"There is something really interesting going on in there.. biologically", Avatar
MVPs of 2009
Marion Cotillard
Matt Damon
Meryl Streep
George Clooney
James Gandolfini
Emily Blunt