DK's Best Achievements in Cinema - 2009

Best Director James Cameron    Avatar Duncan Jones    Moon Neill Blomkamp    District 9 Also worth mentioning Jim Sheridan    Brothers Best Actor Sam Rockwell    Moon Also worth mentioning Sharlto Copley    District 9 Ben Foster    The Messenger Best Cinematography Also worth mentioning Anastas N. Michos    After Life Yaron Orbach    The Jonses Best Score Clint Mansell    Moon Also worth mentioning Zacarias M. de la Riva    Hierro Clinton Shorter    District 9 Marco Beltrami    Knowing Brian Tyler    The Killing Room Don MacDonald    The Steam Experiment Best Writing Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker    Moon Adam Elliot    Mary and Max Best Editing Best Production Design Best Picture Moon Best Actress Best Makeup Greg Cannom    Watchmen ?    Mr. Nobody Also worth mentioning ?    X-Men Origins: Wolverine Best Visual Effects ?    Avatar ?    District 9 ?    Watchmen ?    Star Trek ?    Terminator Salvation ?    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Also worth mentioning ?    Moon ?    Knowing Best Animation Mary and Max Best Sound Editing Best Steadicam Movies that were considered (167): The Good (DK's rating 5.5/10 and above): 500 Days of Summer | After Life | Ajami | Armored | Avatar | Brothers | Bruno | Cell 211 | District 9 | Drag me to Hell | Knowing | Mary and Max | Moon | Terminator Salvation | The Joneses | The Killing Room | The Phantom Menace Review | Triangle The Bad (DK's rating 4.5-5/10): A Serious Man | Arlen Faber (The Answer Man) | Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story | Beyond a Reasonable Doubt | Collapse | Crazy Heart | Crossing Over | Everybody's Fine | Exam | Fired up | Good Hair | Hierro | Law Abiding Citizen | Leaves of Grass | Lebanon | Monsters vs Aliens | Mother and Child | Mr. Nobody | My Sister's Keeper | Outrage | Partly Cloudy | Plastic Bag | Powder Blue | Prayers for Bobby | Shrink | Splice | Star Trek | Taking Chance | That Evening Sun | The Good Guy | The Good Heart | The Messenger | The Steam Experiment | The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 | The Trotsky | The Ugly Truth | Thick as Thieves | Transcendent Man | Up in the Air | Winnebago Man The Ugly (DK's rating 4/10 and below): 9 | 17 Again | 2012 | A Brand New Life | A Christmas Carol | A Perfect Getaway | Accidents Happen | Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective | Adventureland | Albert's Memorial | Amelia | American Pie 7: The Book of Love | An Education | An Englishman in New York | Angels & Demons | Antichrist | Away we go | Black Dynamite | Butterfly Effect: Revelation | Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | City Island | Chloe | Cold Souls | Coraline | Caprica | Couples Retreat | Crank 2: High Voltage | Creation | Daybreakers | Dead Like Me: Life After Death | Defendor | Dorian Gray | Enter the Void | Extract | Fast & Furious | Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | Friday the 13th | Funny People | Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Gamer | Handsome Harry | He's just not that Into you | High Life | Hit and Run | Humpday | I Love You Phillip Morris | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | Imps | Ink | Inglourious Basterds | It's Complicated | Land of the Lost | Life During Wartime | Micmacs | Mother | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Night Train | Oceans | Pandorum | Paul Blart: Mall Cop | Planet 51 | Public Enemies | Saw VI | Serious Moonlight | Sherlock Holmes | Solitary Man | Spread | State of Play | Staten Island | Still Waiting... | Surrogates | Tetro | Tetsuo: The Bullet Man | The Age of Stupid | The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | The Blind Side | The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day | The Box | The Cell 2 | The Hangover | The Human Centipede (First Sequence) | The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus | The Informant! | The Informers | The International | The Invention of Lying | The Land That Time Forgot | The Last House on the Left | The Limits of Control | The Lovely Bones | The Maiden Heist | The Men Who Stare at Goats | The Pink Panther 2 | The Proposal | The White Ribbon | The Yes Men Fix the World | Thirst | Town Creek | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Up | Watchmen | Whatever Works | Where the Wild Things Are | Wonderful World | World's Greatest Dad | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Year One | Zombieland

Special Awards

Best Trailer: Moon. Best Poster: Drag me to Hell. The "Michael Bay" Award for Brainless Film Making: Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds. The Masturbation Award: Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds. The "Most Pretentious" Award: Antichrist. Worst Movie: Inglourious Basterds. Worst Sequel: Ace Ventura Jr: Pet Detective. Worst Thriller: The Lovely Bones. Worst Horror: Friday the 13th. Worst Disaster: 2012. Worst Animation: Planet 51.