THE 10 BEST FILMS OF 2009
By: Douglas Reese









BEST ACTOR
01. adam scott – the vicious kind
02. colin firth – a single man
03. xavier dolan – i killed my mother
04. ashton kutcher – spread
05. tahar rahim – a prophet
06. nicolas cage – the bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans
07. richard de klerk – cole
08. martin rodriguez – leo’s room
09. lars eidinger – everyone else
10. hal holbrook – that evening sun
BEST ACTRESS
01. birgit minichmayr – everyone else
02. sarah michelle gellar – veronika decides to die
03. charlotte gainsbourg – antichrist
04. kim hye-ja – mother
05. kristen stewart – adventureland
06. beatrice dalle – domain
07. anne dorval – i killed my mother
08. gabourey sidibe – precious: based on the novel ‘push’ by sapphire
09. megan fox – jennifer’s body
10. julianne moore – chloe
11. hilary duff – greta
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
01. christoph waltz – inglourious basterds
02. leonard proxauf – the white ribbon
03. michael fassbender – fish tank
04. fillipo timi – vincere
05. peter capaldi – in the loop
06. hristos passalis – dogtooth
07. michael fassbender – inglourious basterds
08. michael c. hall – gamer
09. burghart klaussner – the white ribbon
10. neils arestrup – a prophet
11. steve martin – it’s complicated
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
01. roxane duran – the white ribbon
02. catherine keener – where the wild things are
03. aggeliki papoulia – dogtooth
04. amanda seyfried – chloe
05. jennifer coolidge – the bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans
06. julianne moore – a single man
07. melanie laurent – inglourious basterds
08. vera farmiga – up in the air
09. olivia williams – an education
10. susanne lothar – the white ribbon
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01Maren Ade
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02Giorgos Lanthimos
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03Greg Mottola
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04Michael Haneke
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05Spike Jonze
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06Pedro Almodóvar
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07Gaspar Noé
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08Alexis Dos Santos
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09Sebastián Silva
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10Paul Fierlinger
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11Francis Ford Coppola
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12Dennis Iliadis
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13Andrea Arnold
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14Jim Jarmusch
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15Steven Soderbergh
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16Armando Iannucci
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17Kyle Patrick Alvarez
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18Xavier Dolan
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19Ethan Coen
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20Lars von Trier
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21Quentin Tarantino
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22Rob Zombie
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23Werner Herzog
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24Andrew Bujalski
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25Ti West
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26David Mackenzie
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27Tom Ford
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28Atom Egoyan
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29Jody Hill
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30Zack Snyder
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31Uwe Boll
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32Uwe Boll
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33Drew Barrymore
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34Vincenzo Natali
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35Bong Joon-ho
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36Tim Blake Nelson
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37Jacques Audiard
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38Marco Bellocchio
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39Cherien Dabis
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40Martin Zandvliet
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41Cyril de Gasperis
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42Jane Campion
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43Ruba Nadda
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44Carl Bessai
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45Henry Selick
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46Louie Psihoyos
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47Patric Chiha
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48Lone Scherfig
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49Wes Anderson
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50Andrew Kötting
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51Enrique Buchichio
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52Ken Loach
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53Sean Byrne
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54Adam Elliot
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55Oren Moverman
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56Claudia Llosa
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57Noah Buschel
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58Corneliu Porumboiu
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59Julian Jarrold
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60Anand Tucker
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61James Marsh
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62Juan José Campanella
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63Tomm Moore
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64Ezequiel Acuña
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65Cary Fukunaga
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66Ilisa Barbash
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67Andrzej Wajda
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68Scott Teems
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69Park Chan-wook
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70Lee Toland Krieger
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71Larry Charles
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72Tze Chun
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73Patrick Coyle
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74Bill Ross IV
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75Claire Denis
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76Alain Guiraudie
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77André Téchiné
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78Karyn Kusama
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79Lee Daniels
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80Werner Herzog
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81Jonathan Caouette
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82Jordan Scott
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83Mamoru Hosoda
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84James Felix McKenney
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85Hélène Cattet
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86Pedro González-Rubio
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87Alain Resnais
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88Mark Neveldine
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89Harmony Korine
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90Rob Zombie