Best Feature
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

(500) Days of Summer (2009)
Amreeka (2009)
The Last Station (2009)
Sin nombre (2009)


Best Female Lead
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

Maria Bello for Downloading Nancy (2008)
Nisreen Faour for Amreeka (2009)
Helen Mirren for The Last Station (2009)
Gwyneth Paltrow for Two Lovers (2008)


Best Male Lead
Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009)

Colin Firth for A Single Man (2009)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt for (500) Days of Summer (2009)
Souleymane Sy Savane for Goodbye Solo (2008)
Adam Scott for The Vicious Kind (2009)


Best Supporting Female
Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

Dina Korzun for Cold Souls (2009)
Samantha Morton for The Messenger (2009/I)
Natalie Press for Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
Mia Wasikowska for That Evening Sun (2009)


Best Supporting Male
Woody Harrelson for The Messenger (2009/I)

Jemaine Clement for Gentlemen Broncos (2009)
Christian McKay for Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Ray McKinnon for That Evening Sun (2009)
Christopher Plummer for The Last Station (2009)


Best Director
Lee Daniels for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen for A Serious Man (2009)
Cary Fukunaga for Sin nombre (2009)
James Gray for Two Lovers (2008)
Michael Hoffman for The Last Station (2009)


Best Screenplay
(500) Days of Summer (2009): Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber

Adventureland (2009): Greg Mottola
The Messenger (2009/I): Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
The Last Station (2009): Michael Hoffman
The Vicious Kind (2009): Lee Toland Krieger


Best First Screenplay
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009): Geoffrey Fletcher

Amreeka (2009): Cherien Dabis
Cold Souls (2009): Sophie Barthes
Crazy Heart (2009): Scott Cooper
A Single Man (2009): Tom Ford, David Scearce


Best Cinematography
Serious Man (2009): Roger Deakins

The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009): Peter Zeitlinger
Cold Souls (2009): Andrij Parekh
Sin nombre (2009): Adriano Goldman
Treeless Mountain (2008): Anne Misawa


Best First Feature
Crazy Heart (2009)

Easier with Practice (2009)
The Messenger (2009/I)
Paranormal Activity (2007)
A Single Man (2009)


Best Foreign Film
An Education (2009)

Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick (2008)
Madeo (2009)
La nana (2009)
Un prophète (2009)


Best Documentary
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)

Food, Inc. (2008)
More Than a Game (2008)
October Country (2009)
Which Way Home (2009)


John Cassavetes Award
Humpday (2009)

Big Fan (2009)
The New Year Parade (2008)
Treeless Mountain (2008)
Zero Bridge (2008)


Truer Than Fiction Award
45365 (2009): Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross

Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009): Jessica Oreck
El general (2009): Natalia Almada


Someone to Watch Award
Kyle Patrick Alvarez for Easier with Practice (2009)

Asiel Norton for Redland (2009)
Tariq Tapa for Zero Bridge (2008)


Producers Award
Karin Chien for Santa Mesa (2008), The Exploding Girl (2009)

Larry Fessenden for I Sell the Dead (2008), The House of the Devil (2009)
Dia Sokol for Beeswax (2009), Nights and Weekends (2008)


Robert Altman Award
Serious Man (2009)