Top 20 Films of 2009

By: Brandon Isaacso​n

This was the first year I intensely made a list. It shocks me to see this compared against the last few years. The top 14 is AMAZING to me, I think all those films would make any top 10 since 2009.

• 01
  Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
  Lee Daniels
• 02
  A Single Man
  Tom Ford
• 03
  Up in the Air
  Jason Reitman
• 04
  Where the Wild Things Are
  Spike Jonze
• 05
  Antichrist
  Lars von Trier
• 06
  The Brothers Bloom
  Rian Johnson
• 07
  The Hurt Locker
  Kathryn Bigelow
• 08
  The Cove
  Louie Psihoyos
• 09
  The Messenger
  Oren Moverman
• 10
  (500) Days of Summer
  Marc Webb
• 11
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 12
  Away We Go
  Sam Mendes
• 13
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  Wes Anderson
• 14
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 15
  Me and Orson Welles
  Richard Linklater
• 16
  Avatar
  James Cameron
• 17
  Bright Star
  Jane Campion
• 18
  The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  Werner Herzog
• 19
  Invictus
  Clint Eastwood
• 20
  The Lovely Bones
  Peter Jackson