2009 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture

• District 9 (Peter Jackson & Carolynne Cunningham)
• Inglorious Basterds (Lawrence Bender)
• Star Trek (J.J. Abrams & Damon Lindelof)
• Up (Jonas Rivera)
• Up in the Air (Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman & Jason Reitman)
  (Honourable Mentions: Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Hurt Locker, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Sherlock Holmes, Where the Wild Things Are)

Best Director

• J.J. Abrams - Star Trek
• Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron - Avatar
• Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino - Inglorious Basterds
  (Honourable Mentions: Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr. Fox, Neill Blomkamp - District 9, Lee Daniels - Precious, Pete Docter - Up, Guy Ritchie - Sherlock Holmes)

Best Lead Actor

• Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
• George Clooney - Up in the Air
• Robert Downey, Jr. - Sherlock Holmes
• Colin Firth - A Single Man
• Chris Pine - Star Trek
  (Honourable Mentions: Sharlto Copley - District 9, Matt Damon - The Informant!, Ben Foster - The Messenger, Tobey Maguire - Brothers, Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker) 

Best Lead Actress

• Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
• Abbie Cornish - Bright Star
• Carey Mulligan - An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
• Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia
  (Honourable Mentions: Shorheh Aghdashloo - The Stoning of Soraya M., Emily Blunt - The Young Victoria, Helen Mirren - The Last Station, Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones, Tilda Swinton - Julia)

Best Supporting Actor

• Hank Azaria - Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
• Matt Damon - Invictus
• Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
• Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz - Inglorious Basterds
  (Honourable Mentions: Peter Capaldi - In the Loop, Jude Law - Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Mackie - The Hurt Locker, Alfred Molina - An Education, Zachary Quinto - Star Trek)

Best Supporting Actress

• Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
• Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
• Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
• Mo'Nique - Precious
• Natalie Portman - Brothers
  (Honourable Mentions: Penélope Cruz - Nine, Diane Kruger - Inglorious Basterds, Julianne Moore - A Single Man, Samantha Morton - The Messenger, Susan Sarandon - The Lovely Bones)

Best Original Screenplay

• (500) Days of Summer (Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber)
• The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
• Inglorious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
• A Serious Man (Joel & Ethan Coen)
• Up (Pete Docter, Bob Peterson & Thomas McCarthy)
  (Honourable Mentions: Bright Star, The Hangover, The Messenger, A Prophet, Zombieland)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• District 9 (Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell; based on the short film Alive in Joburg by Neill Blomkamp)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach; based on the novel Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl)
• Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher; based on the novel Push by Sapphire)
  
• Up in the Air (Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner; based on the novel by Walter Kim)
• Where the Wild Things Are (Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers; based on the book by Maurice Sendak)
  (Honourable Mentions: An Education, In the Loop, The Informant!, Julie and Julia, Star Trek)

Best Cast Ensemble

• Inglorious Basterds [Jenny Jue & Johanna Ray, casting directors] (Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Bruhl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard & Mike Myers, et. al.)
• Sherlock Holmes [Reg Poerscout-Edgerton, casting director] (Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Eddie Marsan, Kelly Reilly & Mark Strong, et. al.)
• Star Trek [April Webster & Alyssa Weisberg, casting director] (Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Simon Pegg, Bruce Greenwood, Eric Bana & Leonard Nimoy, et. al.)
• Up in the Air [Mindy Marin, casting director] (George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride, Sam Elliott, Zach Galifianakis & J.K. Simmons, et. al.)
• Where the Wild Things Are [Justine Arteta & Kim Davis-Wagner, casting directors] (Max Records, Catherine Keener, James Gandolfini, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, Forest Whitaker, Catherine O’Hara, Paul Dano, Mark Ruffalo & Spike Jonze, et. al.)
  (Honourable Mentions: An Education, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Hurt Locker, Nine, Precious)

Best Young Actor (18 or Under)

• Jae Head - The Blind Side
• Bailee Madison - Brothers
• Max Records - Where the Wild Things Are
• Saoirse Ronan - The Lovely Bones
• Kodi Smit-McPhee - The Road
  (Honourable Mentions: Abigail Breslin - My Sister's Keeper, Elle Fanning - Phoebe in Wonderland, Taylor Lautner - The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Jordan Nagai - Up, Brooklynn Proulx - The Time Traveler's Wife)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Coco Before Chanel [France] (Anne Fontaine)
• Ponyo [Japan] (Hayao Miyazaki)
• A Prophet [France] (Jacques Audiard)
• The Secret in Their Eyes [Argentina] (Juan José Campanella)
• The White Ribbon [Germany] (Michael Haneke)
  (Honourable Mentions: Broken Embraces, The Milk of Sorrow, Red Cliff, Sin Nombre, Summer Hours)

Best Documentary Feature

• Burma VJ (Anders Østergaard & Lise Lense-Møller)
• Capitalism: A Love Story (Michael Moore & Anne Moore)
• The Cove (Louie Psihoyos & Fisher Stevens)
• Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner & Elise Pearlstein)
• Michael Jackson's This is It (Kenny Ortega & Randy Phillips)
  (Honourable Mentions: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Every Little Step, Good Hair, Tyson, Which Way Home)

Best Original Score

• Avatar (James Horner)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
• Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
• Star Trek (Michael Giacchino)
• Up (Michael Giacchino)
  (Honourable Mentions: Coraline (Bruno Coulais), The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders), The Informant! (Marvin Hamlisch), A Single Man (Abel Korzeniowski), Where the Wild Things Are (Carter Burwell & Karen O))

Best Original Song

• "Almost There" - The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman)
• "Petey's Song" - Fantastic Mr. Fox (Jarvis Cocker, Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach)
• "Take it All" - Nine (Maury Yeston)
• "The Weary Kind" - Crazy Heart (Ryan Bingham & T-Bone Burnett)
• "Winter" - Brothers (U2)
  (Honourable Mentions: "All is Love" - Where the Wild Things Are, "Down in New Orleans" - The Princess and the Frog, "New Divide" - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, "Other Father Song" - Coraline, "You Got Me Wrapped Around Your Little Finger" - An Education)

Best Sound Editing

• Avatar (Christopher Boyes & Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
• District 9 (Brent Burge, Chris Ward & Dave Whitehead)
• Inglorious Basterds (Wylie Stateman)
• Star Trek (Mark Stoeckinger & Alan Rankin)
• Up (Michael Silvers & Tom Myers)
  (Honourable Mentions: The Hurt Locker, Moon, Nine, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Watchmen)

Best Sound Mixing

• Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson & Tom Johnson)
• District 9 (Michael Hedges, Gilbert Lake & Ken Saville)
• The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson & Ray Beckett)
• Star Trek (Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer & Peter J. Devlin)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers & Geoffrey Patterson)
  (Honourable Mentions: Inglorious Basterds, The Lovely Bones, Moon, Nine, Up)

Best Animated Feature

• Coraline (Henry Selick & Claire Jennings)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin & Allison Abbate)
• The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements, John Musker & Peter Del Vecho)
• The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey, Paul Young & Didier Brunner)
• Up (Pete Docter)
  (Honourable Mentions: 9, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Mary and Max, Ponyo)

Best Voice-Over Performance

• Edward Asner - Up for voicing Carl Fredericksen
• George Clooney - Fantastic Mr. Fox for voicing Foxy F. Fox
• Jennifer Cody - The Princess and the Frog for voicing Charlotte
• Hugh Laurie - Monsters vs. Aliens for voicing Dr. Cockroach
• Simon Pegg - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs for voicing Buck
  (Honourable Mentions: Dakota Fanning - Coraline, Bill Hader - Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Barry Humphries - Mary and Max, Richard McGonagle - (500) Days of Summer, Kevin Spacey - Moon)

Best Cinematography

• Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bruno Delbonnel)
• The Hurt Locker (Barry Ackroyd)
• Inglorious Basterds (Robert Richardson)
• The Road (Javier Aguirresarobe)
  (Honourable Mentions: District 9, The Lovely Bones, Nine, Where the Wild Things Are, The White Ribbon)

Best Film Editing

• Avatar (James Cameron, John Refoua & Stephen E. Rivkin)
• District 9 (Julian Clarke)
• The Hurt Locker (Chris Innis & Bob Murawski)
• Inglorious Basterds (Sally Menke)
• Star Trek (Maryann Brandon & Mary Jo Markey)
  (Honourable Mentions: (500) Days of Summer, The Cove, Precious, Up, Up in the Air)

Best Art Direction

• Avatar (Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg & Kim Sinclair)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Stuart Craig & Stephenie McMillan)
• Nine (John Myhre & Gordon Sim)
• Sherlock Holmes (Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer)
• Where the Wild Things Are (K.K. Barrett & Lisa Thompson)
  (Honourable Mentions: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Inglorious Basterds, Star Trek)

Best Costume Design

• Bright Star (Janet Patterson)
• Coco Before Chanel (Catherine Laterrier)
• Nine (Colleen Atwood)
• Sherlock Holmes (Jenny Beavan)
• The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)
  (Honourable Mentions: An Education, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Inglorious Basterds, Watchmen, Where the Wild Things Are)

Best Makeup

• District 9 (Joe Dunckley, Frances Richardson & Sarah Rubano)
• The Road (Toni G)
• Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall & Joel Harlow)
  (Honourable Mentions: Coco Before Chanel, Il Divo, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, The Young Victoria)

Best Visual Effects

• 2012 (Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Greg Strause & Ian Hunter)
• Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham & Andrew R. Jones)
• District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros & Matt Aitken)
• Star Trek (Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh & Burt Dalton)
• Where the Wild Things Are (Daniel Jeannette, Peter Stubbs, Ben Gibbs & Tim Webber)
  (Honourable Mentions: Fantastic Mr. Fox, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Lovely Bones, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)