2009 Critics' Choice Awards winners/2009 Critics' Choice Awards

The 2009 Critics' Choice Awards winners/2009 Critics' Choice Awards results have just been given out ushering the 2009 awards season in Hollywood into second gear. Soon other winners from award-giving organizations will follow with the Golden Globes winners coming out this weekend. For this year, the Critics Choice Awards has been highly anticipated because 2008 was a strong year for film, from big studio productions to small independent films. The 2009 Critics' Choice Awards nominations/2009 Critics' Choice Awards nominees list also reflect strong performances with front runners like Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Anne Hathaway and perennial nominee Meryl Streep coming out on top

of almost every nomination list. Furthermore, one thing observers and fans are watching out for is Heath Ledger and Dark Knight. Will Heath win posthumously?

Many questions filled the air as the awards were to be handed out. The same questions that are in the minds of fans for the rest of the awards season: The Dark Knight's eerie crime fighter, or Brad Pitt's reverse ager? Angelina Jolie's superb as a heartsick mom, or Anne Hathaway in her best role yet? Sean Penn inhabiting a gay icon, or Mickey Rourke getting back in the ring? Seymor Hoffman as an accused priest, or Ledger's Joker? Penelope Cruz romping in Spain or Kate Winslet being put on trial? The questions have been answered and the 2009 Critics Choice Awards winners/2009 Critics Choice Awards results have been announced. See who won below.

2009 Critics' Choice Awards winners/Critics' Choice Awards results

Critics' Choice for Best Picture
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
The Wrestler

Critics' Choice for Best Actor
Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler

Critics' Choice for Best Actress (Tie)
Kate Beckinsale - Nothing But the Truth
Cate Blanchett - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River

Critics' Choice for Best Supporting Acotr
Josh Brolin - Milk
Robert Downey, Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
James Franco - Milk

Critics' Choice for Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis - Doubt
Vera Farmiga - Nothing But the Truth
Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Kate Winslet - The Reader

Critics' Choice for Best Acting Ensemble
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Milk
Rachel Getting Married

Critics' Choice for Best Director
Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Gus Van Sant - Milk

Critics' Choice for Brest Writer
(Original or Adapted Screenplay)
Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Peter Morgan - Frost/Nixon
Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley - Doubt

Critics' Choice for Best Animated Feature
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Wall-E
Waltz With Bashir

Critics' Choice for Best Young Actor/Actress (Under 21)
Dakota Fanning - The Secret Life of Bees
David Kross - The Reader
Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire
Brandon Walters - Australia

Critics' Choice for Best Action Movie
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
Wanted

Critics' Choice for Best Comedy
Burn After Reading
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Role Models
Tropic Thunder
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Critics' Choice for Best Picture Made for Television
John Adams
Recount
Coco Chanel

Critics' Choice for Best Foreign Language Film
A Christmas Tale
Gomorrah
I've Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Mongol
Waltz With Bashir

Critics' Choice for Best Documentary Feature
I.O.U.S.A.
Man On Wire
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Standard Operating Procedure
Young At Heart

Critics' Choice for Best Song
'Another Way to Die' - Jack White and Alicia Keys/Jack White - Quantum of
Solace
'Down to Earth' - Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman - Wall-E
'I Thought I Lost You' - Miley Cyrus and John Travolta/Miley Cyrus and
Jeffrey Steele - Bolt
'Jaiho' - Sukhwinder Singh/A.R. Rahman and Gulzar - Slumdog Millionaire
'The Wrestler' - Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen - The Wrestler

Critics' Choice for Best Composer
Alexandre Desplat - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Clint Eastwood - Changeling
Danny Elfman - Milk
Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
A.R. Rahman - Slumdog Millionaire



Postscript: BTW, Here are the important dates to remember in the 2009 Hollywood awards calendar: the 2009 Golden Globe nominations on December 11, the SAG nominations on December 18, the 2009 Golden Globe Awards on January 11, the 2009 Oscar nominations/Academy Award nominations on January 22, the SAG Awards winners/results on January 25 and the 2009 Oscar Awards on February 22, 2009. And while we're on the subject of awards, let's throw in the 2009 Grammy nominations announced last December 3 and 2009 Grammy Awards (winners and results) on February 8, 2009.