The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards).

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Evaluation of the year

Film critic Philip French of The Guardian said that 2009 "began with the usual flurry of serious major movies given late December screenings in Los Angeles to qualify for the Oscars. They're now forgotten or vaguely regarded as semi-classics: The Reader, Che, Slumdog Millionaire, Frost/Nixon, Revolutionary Road, The Wrestler, Gran Torino, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It soon became apparent that horror movies would be the dominant genre once again, with vampires the pre-eminent sub-species, the most profitable inevitably being New Moon, the latest in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga, the best the subtle Swedish Let the Right One In and the worst the British horror spoof Lesbian Vampire Killers. Documentaries continued to flourish, introducing us to fascinating new worlds: Afghan TV talent shows (Afghan Star), Australian exploitation cinema (Not Quite Hollywood), haute couture (The September Issue). Animation thrived, the 3-D comeback threatened to become permanent rather than a gimmick, and the two were conjoined in a dozen 3-D animated features, the finest being Pixar's Up. Remakes and sequels abounded, none of any merit. The same went for films based on comic strips and graphic novels. British cinema generally bubbled in the doldrums. The well-acted Fish Tank was overrated, as was the dull costume drama The Young Victoria. The best films by native directors were fuelled by our obsession with soccer (Ken Loach's Looking for Eric and Tom Hooper's The Damned United) or directed by foreigners (New Zealander Jane Campion's Bright Star, and two films by Danes: Nicholas Winding Refn's Bronson and Lone Scherfig's An Education). The most original British film was Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor's low-key, low-budget Helen, a formally innovative look at provincial life. 2009 was a mostly undistinguished year for Hollywood, with indifferent films from Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Michael Mann (Public Enemies) and others, and deadly blockbusters such as Angels & Demons and 2012. The Coen brothers, however, were on form, examining their midwestern Jewish roots in A Serious Man, and Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker was the best film yet about Iraq. From Europe we had several striking revisionist accounts of violent resistance to Nazi occupation in the second world war: Flammen & Citronen (Denmark), Max Manus: Man of War (Norway) and The Army of Crime (France). But they were drowned in the tsunami of Quentin Tarantino's lunatic second world war fantasy Inglourious Basterds. The most likable European picture was the Italian Mid-August Lunch, the directorial debut of 60-year-old Gianni Di Gregorio (screenwriter on Gomorrah), and the three most memorably argumentative and provocative were Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo, Lars von Trier's Antichrist and Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon. The performances I most enjoyed were impersonations: Meryl Streep's Julia Child (Julie & Julia) and Christian McKay's Orson in Me and Orson Welles."[1]

Highest-grossing films

The top 10 films released in 2009 by worldwide gross are as follows:[2]

Highest-grossing films of 2009
RankTitleDistributorWorldwide gross
1 Avatar Fox $2,743,577,587[nb 1]
2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Warner Bros. $933,959,197
3 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fox $886,686,817
4 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Paramount $836,303,693
5 2012 Sony $769,679,473
6 Up Disney $735,099,082
7 The Twilight Saga: New Moon Summit $709,827,462
8 Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros. $524,028,679
9 Angels & Demons Sony $485,930,816
10 The Hangover Warner Bros. $469,328,079
  1. Excludes grosses from subsequent re-releases.

Avatar surpassed Titanic as the highest-grossing film of all time on January 25, 2010.[3] Avatar then became the first film to earn more than $2 billion at the box office on January 31, 2010.[4] Avatar was surpassed by Avengers: Endgame as the highest-grossing film of all time on July 21, 2019.[5] Due to a re-release, Avatar retook the title from Endgame on March 13, 2021.[6]

Events

MonthDayEvent
January 22The 81st Academy Awards nominations are announced with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leading with 13 nominations, followed by Slumdog Millionaire with 10. Both films are nominated for Best Picture. Heath Ledger is posthumously nominated for Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in The Dark Knight, exactly one year after his death.
25The 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony is held at the Shrine Exposition Center, Los Angeles.
Annie Awards ceremony is held in the UCLA's Royce Hall, Los Angeles.
31The 61st Directors Guild of America Award dinner is held in the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles.
February 5 – 15The 59th Berlin International Film Festival is opened with the world premiere of Tom Tykwer's The International. The Golden Bear prize is awarded to The Milk of Sorrow. The Silver Bears prizes are awarded to Asghar Farhadi, Best Director, Sotigui Kouyaté, Best Actor and Birgit Minichmayr, Best Actress. The festival is closed by the international premiere of George Tillman Jr.'s Notorious
7The 61st Writers Guild of America Awards is held.
The 62nd BAFTA Awards ceremony is held in the Royal Opera House, London.
21The 29th Golden Raspberry Awards ceremony is held in Hollywood, California.
22The 81st Academy Awards ceremony is held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
March 29The 14th Empire Awards ceremony is held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, England.
May 31The 2009 MTV Movie Awards ceremony was held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California
July 23 – 2 AugustThe 9th Era New Horizons Film Festival in Wrocław was held
December 18Avatar is released in theaters, breaking many box-office records, including becoming the highest-grossing movie at the time.

Awards

Category/Organization15th Critics' Choice Awards
January 15, 2010
67th Golden Globe Awards
January 17, 2010
Producers, Directors, Screen Actors, and Writers Guild Awards63rd BAFTA Awards
February 21, 2010
82nd Academy Awards
March 7, 2010
DramaMusical or Comedy
Best FilmThe Hurt LockerAvatarThe HangoverThe Hurt Locker
Best DirectorKathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker
James Cameron
Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow
The Hurt Locker
Best ActorJeff Bridges
Crazy Heart
Robert Downey Jr.
Sherlock Holmes
Jeff Bridges
Crazy Heart
Colin Firth
A Single Man
Jeff Bridges
Crazy Heart
Best ActressSandra Bullock
The Blind Side
Meryl Streep
Julie & Julia
Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
Meryl Streep
Julie & Julia
Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
Carey Mulligan
An Education
Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
Best Supporting ActorChristoph Waltz
Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting ActressMo'Nique
Precious
Best Screenplay, AdaptedJason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Up in the Air
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Up in the Air
Geoffrey Fletcher
Precious
Best Screenplay, OriginalQuentin Tarantino
Inglourious Basterds
Mark Boal
The Hurt Locker
Best Animated FilmUp
Best Original ScoreUp
Michael Giacchino
N/AUp
Michael Giacchino
Best Original Song"The Weary Kind"
Crazy Heart
N/AN/A"The Weary Kind"
Crazy Heart
Best Foreign Language FilmBroken EmbracesThe White RibbonN/AA ProphetThe Secret in Their Eyes

2009 films

The list of films released in 2009, arranged by country, are as follows:

Births

Deaths

MonthDateNameAgeCountryProfessionNotable films
January 1Edmund Purdom84UKActor
2Steven Gilborn72USActor
3Pat Hingle84USActor
3Olga San Juan81USActress, Dancer
5Robert F. Brunner70USComposer
5Ned Tanen77USProducer, Executive
6John Scott Martin82UKActor
8Don Galloway71USActor
12Claude Berri74FranceDirector, Producer, Screenwriter
12Russ Conway95CanadaActor
13Patrick McGoohan80IrelandActor
14Ricardo Montalbán88MexicoActor
14Angela Morley84UKComposer
15Chuck Gaspar70USSpecial Effects Artist
17Susanna Foster84USActress, Singer
18Kathleen Byron88UKActress
21Charles H. Schneer88USProducer
26Darrell Sandeen78USActor
31Clint Ritchie70USActor
February 6Philip Carey83USActor
6James Whitmore87USActor
7Molly Bee69USSinger, Actress
7Lesley Brook91UKActress
9Robert Anderson91USScreenwriter
13Dilys Laye74UKActress
19Oreste Lionello81ItalyActor
20Robert Quarry83USActor
21Howard Zieff81USDirector
23Laurence Payne89UKActor
24Edward Judd76UKActor
27John Alvin91USActor
March 3Sydney Chaplin82USActor
4Horton Foote92USScreenwriter
7Tullio Pinelli100ItalyScreenwriter
13Betsy Blair85USActress
14Millard Kaufman92USScreenwriter
15Ron Silver62USActor
18Natasha Richardson45UKActress
21John Cater77UKActor
21John Franklyn-Robbins84UKActor
25Steven Bach70USStudio Executive
29Monte Hale89USActor, Singer
29Maurice Jarre84FranceComposer
April 1Lou Perryman67USActor
1Miguel Ángel Suárez69Puerto RicoActor
3Tom Smith88UKMakeup Artist
4Jody McCrea74USActor
5Wouter Barendrecht43NetherlandsProducer
8Jane Bryan90USActress
9Michael N. Harbour63UKActor
9Shakti Samanta83IndiaDirector, Producer
11Simon Channing Williams63UKProducer
12Marilyn Chambers57USActress
18Peter Dennis75UKActor
22Ken Annakin94UKDirector
22Jack Cardiff94UKCinematographer, Director
25Bea Arthur86USActress
27Feroz Khan69IndiaActor
May 1Marc Rocco46USDirector, Screenwriter
4Dom DeLuise75USActor
4Jane Randolph93USActress
15Bud Tingwell86AustraliaActor
18Wayne Allwine62USVoice Actor
20Lucy Gordon28UKActress
28Mort Abrahams93USProducer
28Terence Alexander86UKActor
June 3David Carradine72USActor
3Shih Kien96ChinaActor
6Mary Howard96USActress
9Michael Roof32USActor
21Lorena Gale51CanadaActress
23Ed McMahon86USActor
25Farrah Fawcett62USActress
25Michael Jackson50USSinger, Actor
27Gale Storm87USSinger, Actress
29Jan Rubeš89Czech RepublicSinger, Actor
30Harve Presnell75USActor, Singer
July 1Karl Malden97USActor
4Brenda Joyce92USActress
10Zena Marshall83UKActress
13Beverly Roberts95USActress
14Dal McKennon89USActor
24Harry Towb83IrelandActor
26Clayton Hill78USActor
29Joanne Jordan88USActress
31Jean-Paul Roussillon78FranceActor
August 4Blake Snyder51USScreenwriter
5Budd Schulberg95USScreenwriter
6John Hughes59USDirector, Screenwriter, Producer
9John Quade71USActor
12Ruth Ford98USActress
13John Bentley92UKActor
16Richard Moore83USCinematographer, Director
21Gordon Daniel86UKSound Engineer
26Sadie Corré91UKActress, Dancer
26Dominick Dunne83USProducer
28Wayne Tippit76USActor
September 3Caro Jones86CanadaCasting Director
4Iain Cuthbertson79UKActor
4Carl Reindel74USActor
7Frank Coghlan, Jr.93USActor
8Ray Barrett82AustraliaActor
11Zakes Mokae75South AfricaActor
12Larry Gelbart81USScreenwriter
13Paul Burke83USActor
13Arnold Laven87USDirector
14Henry Gibson73USActor
14Patrick Swayze57USActor
15Troy Kennedy Martin77UKScreenwriter
16Timothy Bateson83UKActor
16Luciano Emmer91ItalyDirector, Screenwriter
17Dick Durock72USActor, Stuntman
18Pearl Hackney92UKActress
20John Hart91USActor
20Katherine Parr88UKActress
21Robert Ginty60USActor, Director
30Robert S. Baker92UKProducer, Director, Cinematographer
October 3John Peverall77-78UKProducer
6Pamela Blake94USActress
10Sean Lawlor55IrelandActor
13Al Martino82USActor, Singer
13Daniel Melnick77USProducer, Executive
14Lou Albano76ItalyActor, Wrestler
14Collin Wilcox74USActress
17Douglas Blackwell85UKActor
17Vic Mizzy93USComposer
17Rosanna Schiaffino69ItalyActress
19Joseph Wiseman91CanadaActor
20Hubert Rees81UKActor
23Lou Jacobi95CanadaActor
26Yoshirō Muraki85JapanProduction Designer, Costume Designer
27John David Carson57USActor
November 4David Tree94UKActor
6Derek Brechin57UKFilm Editor
12Paul Wendkos84USDirector
16Edward Woodward79UKActor
17Tony Kendall72ItalyActor
28Gilles Carle81CanadaDirector, Screenwriter
December 3Nat Boxer84USSound Engineer
3Richard Todd90IrelandActor
4Bryan O'Byrne78USActor
5Garfield Morgan78UKActor
8Joan Bridge97UKCostume Designer
9Gene Barry90USActor
12Val Avery85USActor
15Peter Murton85UKProduction Designer, Art Director
15Robert Turturice60USCostume Designer
16Roy E. Disney79USStudio Executive
17Alaina Reed Hall63USActress
17Jennifer Jones90USActress
17Dan O'Bannon63USScreenwriter, Director, Actor
19Donald Pickering76UKActor
20Brittany Murphy32USActress
20Shari Rhodes71USCasting Director
20Arnold Stang91USActor
21Marianne Stone87UKActress
22Michael Currie81USActor
24Giulio Bosetti78ItalyActor
30Perry Wilson93USActress
31Glauco Onorato73ItalyActor

Film debuts

References

  1. French, Philip (13 December 2009). "2009 in review: Film". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
  2. "2009 Worldwide Box Office". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  3. Segers, Frank (January 25, 2010). "'Avatar' breaks 'Titanic' worldwide record". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on January 28, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  4. Bettinger, Brendan (January 31, 2010). "Avatar Becomes the First Film to Gross More Than $2 Billion Worldwide". Collider. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  5. Brevet, Brad (July 21, 2019). "'The Lion King' Debuts with Record $185M & 'Endgame' Becomes Global #1". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  6. Tartaglione, Nancy (March 13, 2021). "'Avatar' Overtakes 'Avengers: Endgame' As All-Time Highest-Grossing Film Worldwide; Rises To $2.8B Amid China Reissue – Update". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on March 13, 2021. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
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