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B E S T O F 2 0 0 9 T O P 1 0 F I L M S A PROPHET (Jacques Audiard) A SERIOUS MAN (Joel & Ethan Coen) FISH TANK (Andrea Arnold) MUGABE AND THE WHITE AFRICAN (Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson) (500) DAYS OF SUMMER (Marc Webb) BRIGHT STAR (Jane Campion) THE FIRST DAY OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE (Rémi Benzaçon) MARY AND MAX (Adam Elliot) TRICKS (Andrzej Jakimowski) DISTRICT 9 (Neill Blomkamp) D I R E C T O R Jane Campion (BRIGHT STAR) W R I T E R S Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (IN THE LOOP) A C T R E S S Katie Jarvis (FISH TANK) A C T O R Tahar Rahim (A PROPHET) S U P P O R T I N G A C T R E S S Mo'Nique (PRECIOUS) S U P P O R T I N G A C T O R Woody Harrelson (THE MESSENGER, ZOMBIELAND, 2012, MANAGEMENT) W O R S T F I L M S TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (Michael Bay) TERMINATOR SALVATION (McG) LAW ABIDING CITIZEN (F Gary Gray) DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? (Marc Lawrence) IT'S ALIVE (Josef Rusnak) SHADOWS HALL OF FAME	S H A D O W S W I N N E R S 1 9 8 1 - 2 0 0 8 08 \| 07 \| 06 \| 05 \| 04 \| 03 \| 02 \| 01 \| 2000 \| 99 \| 98 \| 97 \| 96 \| 95 94 \| 93 \| 92 \| 91 \| 1990 \| 89 \| 88 \| 87 \| 86 \| 85 \| 84 \| 83 \| 82 \| 81
	2 0 0 8 FILM: The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) Runners-up: Hunger. Gran Torino. Slumdog Millionaire. Wall-E. DIR: Steve McQueen (Hunger) SCR: Dustin Lance Black (Milk) ACT: Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You So Long, Easy Virtue, The Other Boleyn Girl); Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) SUP: Patricia Clarkson (Married Life, Elegy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona); Jeremie Renier (In Bruges, Private Property, The Silence of Lorna, Summer Hours)	2 0 0 7 FILM: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu) Runners-up: No Country for Old Men. Paranoid Park. The Edge of Heaven. Hallam Foe. DIR: Sidney Lumet (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) SCR: Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) ACT: Laura Linney (Jindabyne, The Savages, Breach, The Hottest State, The Nanny Diaries); Jamie Bell (Hallam Foe, The Chumscrubber) SUP: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton); Robert Downey Jr (Charlie Bartlett, Zodiac, Lucky You)
	2 0 0 6 FILM: United 93 (Paul Greengrass) Runners-up: Little Miss Sunshine. Pan's Labyrinth. Letters from Iwo Jima. Shut Up & Sing. DIR: Park Chan-wook (Lady Vengeance) SCR: Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) ACT: Naomi Watts (Painted Veil, Ellie Parker, Stay), James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland, Starter for Ten) SUP: Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Bill Nighy (Notes on a Scandal, Stormbreaker, Dead Man's Chest)	2 0 0 5 FILM: Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) Runners-up: The Constant Gardener. Mysterious Skin. A History of Violence. Paradise Now. DIR: Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin) SCR: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) ACT: Maria Bello (A History of Violence), Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead, Proof) SUP: Catherine Keener (Capote, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Interpreter), Matt Dillon (Crash)
	2 0 0 4 FILM: Dogville (Lars von Trier) Runners-up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Twilight Samurai. The Motorcycle Diaries. Bad Education. DIR: Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine) SCR: Bill Condon (Kinsey) ACT: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Jamie Foxx (Ray, Collateral) SUP: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator, The Life Aquatic, Coffee & Cigarettes), Peter Sarsgaard (Kinsey, Garden State)	2 0 0 3 FILM: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) Runners-up: American Splendor. Elephant. The Triplets of Belleville. Lost in Translation. DIR: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (American Splendor) SCR: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor) ACT: Toni Collette (Japanese Story, Dirty Deeds), Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) SUP: Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April, Station Agent, All the Real Girls, Safety of Objects), Sean Astin (Return of the King)
	2 0 0 2 FILM: City of God (Fernando Meirelles) Runners-up: The Hours. Y Tu Mama Tambien. Far From Heaven. The Two Towers. DIR: Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien) SCR: Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) ACT: Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven, The Hours), Danny Huston (Ivansxtc) SUP: Toni Collette (The Hours, About a Boy, Changing Lanes), Peter Boyle (Monster's Ball)	2 0 0 1 FILM: Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann) Runners-up: The Fellowship of the Ring, Monsoon Wedding, You Can Count on Me, Hedwig and the Angry Inch DIR: Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) SCR: Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me) ACT: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive), John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig) SUP: Beth Grant (Sordid Lives, Rock Star, Donnie Darko), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge, Iris)
	2 0 0 0 FILM: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) Runners-up: Memento, Traffic, Open Your Eyes, High Fidelity. DIR: Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger) SCR: Woody Allen (Sweet and Lowdown, Small Time Crooks) ACT: Joan Allen (The Contender, When the Sky Falls), Christian Bale (American Psycho) SUP: Frances McDormand (Almost Famous, Wonder Boys), Albert Finney (Erin Brockovich, Traffic)	1 9 9 9 FILM: American Beauty (Sam Mendes) Runners-up: Ride With the Devil, Gods and Monsters, Election, The Straight Story. DIR: David Lynch (The Straight Story) SCR: Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters) ACT: Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother), Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story) SUP: Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense, 8 1/2 Women), Jude Law (The Talented Mr Ripley, Final Cut, eXistenZ)
	1 9 9 8 FILM: Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) Runners-up: Saving Private Ryan, The General, The Truman Show, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. DIR: Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan) SCR: Andrew Niccol (Truman Show, Gattaca) ACT: Joan Allen (Pleasantville), Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail) SUP: Toni Collette (The Boys, Velvet Goldmine), Ed Harris (Truman Show, Stepmom)	1 9 9 7 FILM: Regeneration (Gillies MacKinnon) Runners-up: Shall We Dance, Titanic, The Full Monty, Boogie Nights. DIR: Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) SCR: James Cameron (Titanic) ACT: Julie Christie (Hamlet, Afterglow), Jonathan Pryce (Regeneration, Tomorrow Never Dies) SUP: Anne Heche (Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog), Richard Briers (Hamlet)
	1 9 9 6 FILM: Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins) Runners-up: Shine, Trainspotting , The Pillow Book, Fargo. DIR: Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book) SCR: Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo) ACT: Frances McDormand (Fargo, Lone Star), Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Pillow Book, Brassed Off) SUP: Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility), Chris Penn (The Funeral)	1 9 9 5 FILM: Land and Freedom (Ken Loach) Runners-up: Leaving Las Vegas, Smoke, The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway. DIR: Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) SCR: Paul Auster (Smoke) ACT: Jessica Lange (Blue Sky, Rob Roy), Morgan Freeman (Seven, Shawshank Redemption) SUP: Ashley Judd (Smoke, Heat), Martin Landau (Ed Wood)
	1 9 9 4 FILM: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) Runners-up: The Hudsucker Proxy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shadowlands, The Last Seduction. DIR: Joel Coen (Hudsucker Proxy) SCR: Steve Barancik (Last Seduction) ACT: Linda Fiorentino (Last Seduction), John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) SUP: Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump)	1 9 9 3 FILM: In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan) Runners-up: Schindler's List, Groundhog Day, The Piano, Short Cuts. DIR: Jane Campion (The Piano) SCR: Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin (Groundhog Day) ACT: Holly Hunter (The Piano, The Firm), Daniel Day Lewis (In the Name of the Father, Age of Innocence) SUP: Anne Archer (Short Cuts), Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List)
	1 9 9 2 FILM: Howards End (James Ivory) Runners-up: The Player, Aladdin, The Crying Game, The Waterdance. DIR: Robert Altman (The Player) SCR: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Howards End) ACT: Emma Thompson (Howards End), Eric Stoltz (Waterdance) SUP: Vanessa Redgrave (Howards End), Kevin Spacey (Glengarry Glen Ross)	1 9 9 1 FILM: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) Runners-up: Bugsy, Life is Sweet, Beauty and the Beast, Dead Again. DIR: Oliver Stone (JFK) SCR: John Sayles (City of Hope) ACT: Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs), Nick Nolte (Prince of Tides) SUP: Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), Harvey Keitel (Mortal Thoughts, Thelma & Louise, Bugsy)
	1 9 9 0 FILM: Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner) Runners-up: GoodFellas, Avalon, Misery, Mystery Train. DIR: Martin Scorcese (GoodFellas) SCR: Barry Levinson (Avalon) ACT: Kathy Bates (Misery), Robert DeNiro (GoodFellas) SUP: Jennifer Jason Leigh (Miami Blues), Joe Pesci (GoodFellas)	1 9 8 9 FILM: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) Runners-up: Field of Dreams, Drugstore Cowboy, My Left Foot, Roger & Me. DIR: Terry Gilliam (Baron Munchausen) SCR: Gus Van Sant, Don Yost (Drugstore Cowboy) ACT: Andie MacDowell (Sex Lies & Videotape), Matt Dillon (Drugstore Cowboy) SUP: Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot), Denzel Washington (Glory)
	1 9 8 8 FILM: Tucker, the Man and His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola) Runners-up: Dangerous Liaisons, Five Corners, Big, Mississippi Burning. DIR: Francis Ford Coppola (Tucker) SCR: Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) ACT: Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons), Tom Hanks (Big) SUP: Kathleen Turner (Accidental Tourist), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)	1 9 8 7 FILM: The Untouchables (Brian DePalma) Runners-up: Broadcast News, The Princess Bride, Moonstruck, Radio Days. DIR: Brian DePalma (Untouchables) SCR: James L Brooks (Broadcast News) ACT: Holly Hunter (Broadcast News, Raising Arizona), Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun) SUP: Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck), Nicolas Cage (Moonstruck, Raising Arizona)
	1 9 8 6 FILM: Stand by Me (Rob Reiner) Runners-up: Hannah and Her Sisters, Platoon, The Mission, The Fly. DIR: Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters) SCR: David Lynch (Blue Velvet) ACT: Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God), Robert DeNiro (The Mission) SUP: Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters), Tom Berenger (Platoon)	1 9 8 5 FILM: The Breakfast Club (John Hughes) Runners-up: Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Color Purple, Brazil, Back to the Future. DIR: Steven Spielberg (Color Purple) SCR: John Hughes (Breakfast Club) ACT: Meg Tilly (Agnes of God), William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman) SUP: Tracey Ullman (Plenty), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)
	1 9 8 4 FILM: The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe) Runners-up: Amadeus, This is Spinal Tap, Places in the Heart, All of Me. DIR: Milos Foreman (Amadeus) SCR: Robert Benton (Places in the Heart) ACT: Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone, Crimes of Passion), Haing S Ngor (Killing Fields) SUP: Lily Tomlin (All of Me), John Malkovich (Places in the Heart, Killing Fields)	1 9 8 3 FILM: Local Hero (Bill Forsyth) Runners-up: The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, Yentl, Tender Mercies. DIR: Philip Kaufman (Right Stuff) SCR: Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek (Big Chill) ACT: Barbra Streisand (Yentl), Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies) SUP: Linda Hunt (Year of Living Dangerously), Mickey Rourke (Rumblefish)
	1 9 8 2 FILM: E.T., The Extra-terrestrial (Steven Spielberg) Runners-up: Gandhi, Tootsie, Victor/Victoria, Sophie's Choice. DIR: Steven Spielberg (E.T.) SCR: David Mamet (The Verdict) ACT: Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) SUP: Jessica Lange (Tootsie, Frances), Robert Preston (Victor/Victoria)	1 9 8 1 FILM: Reds (Warren Beatty) Runners-up: Chariots of Fire, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Time Bandits, Body Heat. DIR: Warren Beatty (Reds) SCR: Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire) ACT: Diane Keaton (Reds), Warren Beatty (Reds) SUP: Maureen Stapleton (Reds), Jack Nicholson (Reds)

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