Hunger

In a first-ever tie for Best Picture, Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” shared the top prize of the Toronto Film Critics Association 2009 awards, while Kathryn Bigelow was named Best Director for “The Hurt Locker”.

“Hunger” was also named Best First Feature.

Other winners include Nicolas Cage and Carey Mulligan, named Best Actor and Actress for “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” and “An Education”, respectively, and Christoph Waltz and Anna Kendrick, who took the Supporting prizes for their roles in “Basterds” and “Up in the Air” — the two films that wound up sharing the Best Screenplay award.

Louie Psihoyos’ chilling “The Cove” was named Best Documentary; Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox”, Best Animated Feature. And Michael Haneke’s grim Cannes hit, “The White Ribbon”, took the Best Foreign-Language Film prize.

We’ll be celebrating this year’s awards at a gala dinner at Nota Bene in January, where we’ll also hand out the Rogers Best Canadian Feature Award and the Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent. Keep your eyes peeled.

The complete list of winners and runners-up follows.

BEST PICTURE (TIE)
    “Hunger” (Maple Pictures)
“Inglourious Basterds” (Alliance Films)
Runner-up:
    “The Hurt Locker” (Maple Pictures)

BEST ACTOR
    Nicolas Cage, “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans”
Runners-up:
    George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Michael Fassbender, “Hunger”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Viggo Mortensen, “The Road”

BEST ACTRESS
    Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Runners-up:
    Arta Dobroshi, “Le Silence de Lorna”
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
    Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”
Runners-up:
    Christian McKay, “Me & Orson Welles”
Timothy Olyphant, “A Perfect Getaway”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
    Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Runners-up:
    Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Mo’nique, “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

BEST DIRECTOR
    Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
Runners-up:
    Steve McQueen, “Hunger”
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”

BEST SCREENPLAY (TIE)
    “Inglourious Basterds”, written by Quentin Tarantino
“Up in the Air”, written by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
based on the novel by Walter Kirn
Runner-up:
    “A Serious Man”, written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

BEST FIRST FEATURE
    “Hunger”, directed by Steve McQueen
Runners-up:
    “District 9″, directed by Neill Blomkamp
“(500) Days of Summer”, directed by Marc Webb

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
    “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (Fox Searchlight)
Runners-up:
    “Coraline” (Alliance Films)
“Up” (Disney-Pixar)

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
    “The White Ribbon” (Mongrel Media)
Runners-up:
    “Police, Adjective” (filmswelike)
“Summer Hours” (E1 Entertainment)

ALLAN KING DOCUMENTARY FEATURE AWARD
    “The Cove” (Maple Pictures)
Runners-up:
    “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” (filmswelike)
“The Beaches of Agnes” (E1 Entertainment)

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