Julie's Own Damn Oscars (or anti-Oscars), Given By Her, Damnit!

Films of 2009 I actually saw:

Adventureland, Avatar, Away We Go, The Blind Side, Coraline, Crazy Heart, An Education, Fantastic Mr. Fox, 500 Days of Summer, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, I Love You Man, Inglourious Basterds, Julie and Julia, The Lovely Bones, The Messenger, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air, Where the Wild Things Are

Best Films (alphabetical):

Adventureland, Away We Go, An Education, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Where the Wild Things Are

Worst Films (alphabetical):

Avatar, The Blind Side, The Hangover, Julie and Julia

Best Performances:

Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig, Adventureland

The cast of Away We Go

Melanie Laurant, Inglourious Basterds

Ben Foster and Samantha Morton, The Messenger

The cast of Precious

The cast of A Serious Man

Worst Performances:

Stephen Lang and Giovanni Ribisi, Avatar

Jae Head, The Blind Side (Not to pick on a little kid – I blame the director.)

Rachael Harris and Ken Jeong, The Hangover

Amy Adams, Julie and Julia

Best Trend:

Hipster-geek directors and children’s books. (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Where the Wild Things Are)

Worst Trend:

Packs of evil and/or creepy dogs. (Avatar, Coraline, Up) What’s with the dog-hating?