If I Ran the Oscars 2009

--Winners in italics--

Best Picture
Capitalism: A Love Story
Fish Tank
(500) Days of Summer
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man

Best Director
Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank)
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (A Serious Man)
Steven Soderbergh (The Informant!)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Marc Webb ((500) Days of Summer)

Best Actor
Matt Damon (The Informant!)
Johnny Depp (Public Enemies)
Viggo Mortensen (The Road)
Sam Rockwell (Moon)
Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man)

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard (Public Enemies)
Zooey Deschanel ((500) Days of Summer)
Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist)
Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank)
Mélanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actor
Billy Crudup (Watchmen)
Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds)
James Gandolfini (In the Loop)
Brad Pitt (Inglourious Basterds)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress
Leonie Benesch (Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)
Marion Cotillard (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Original Screenplay
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, and Tony Roche (In the Loop)
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Greg Mottola (Adventureland)
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Scott Z. Burns (The Informant!)
David Hayter and Alex Tse (Watchmen)
Joe Penhall (The Road)
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)

Best Animated Feature
A Christmas Carol
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Mary and Max
Up

Best Art Direction
Deborah Jensen (A Serious Man)
Andy Gent and Turlo Griffin (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Sebastian T. Krawinkel (Inglourious Basterds)
Patrick Lumb (Public Enemies)
Anja Müller (Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)

Best Cinematography
Lance Acord (Where the Wild Things Are)
Javier Aguirresarobe (The Road)
Christian Berger (Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)
Roger Deakins (A Serious Man)
Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood (Public Enemies)
Moidele Bickel (Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte)
Joanna Johnston (The Boat That Rocked)
Anna B. Sheppard (Inglourious Basterds)
Michael Wilkinson (Watchmen)

Best Documentary Feature
Capitalism: A Love Story
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The Cove
Good Hair
This Is It

Best Film Editing
Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (A Serious Man)
Jeffrey Ford and Paul Rubell (Public Enemies)
William Hoy (Watchmen)
Sally Menke (Inglourious Basterds)
Anders Refn and Åsa Mossberg (Antichrist)

Best Foreign Language Film
Bakjwi
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte

Best Makeup
Karen Dawson (Moon)
Jamie Leigh DeVilla and Jorjee Douglas ((500) Days of Summer)
Heba Thorisdottir (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Original Song
"Other Father Song," They Might Be Giants (Coraline)
"Sirens of the Sea," Henry Selick (Coraline)
"This Is It," Michael Jackson (This Is It)

Best Original Score
Carter Burwell (A Serious Man)
Carter Burwell and Karen O. (Where the Wild Things Are)
Bruno Coulais (Coraline)
Michael Giacchino (Up)
Adrian Younge (Black Dynamite)

Best Sound Mixing
Tom Johnson (Coraline)
Michael McGee (Watchmen)
Ed Novick (Public Enemies)
Mark Ulano (Inglourious Basterds)
Stuart Wilson (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

Best Sound Editing
Scott Hecker (Watchmen)
James Mather (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
James Mather (Sherlock Holmes)
Tom Myers and Michael Silvers (Up)
Wylie Stateman (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Visual Effects
John Bruno, Jonathan Fawkner, Anthony 'Max' Ivins, John Knoll, Daniel Leduc, Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, Erik Liles, Richard Martin, Steven Quale, Stephen Rosenbaum, Jonathan Rothbart, Eric Saindon, Wayne Stables, Mathilde Tollec, Timothy Webber, R. Christopher White, Edson Williams, and Guy Williams (Avatar)
John Dietz, Daniel Jeannette, Marc Kolbe, Chris Watts, Timothy Webber, and Peter Webb (Where the Wild Things Are)
John 'D.J.' Des Jardin, Bryan Hirota, Dennis Jones, Lon Molnar, Peter G. Travers, and Shawn Walsh (Watchmen)