Streep Among 2009 New York Film Critics Online Award Winners

Meryl Streep is among the 2009 winners of the New York Film Critics Online Award winners. Streep won the award for Best Actress for her performance as Julia Child in the Nora Ephron comedy "Julie & Julia." 

The New York Film Critics Online is an organization composed of Internet film critics based in New York City. The group meets once a year, in December, for voting on its annual NYFCO Awards. This year, "Inglourious Basterds" dominated the NYFCO awards.

Meryl Streep is the recipient of a record-breaking 15 Oscar nominations and has starred in highly acclaimed films such as Kramer vs. Kramer, for which she won her first Academy Award®, The Deer Hunter, Out of Africa, A Cry in the Dark, The Bridges of Madison County, The Devil Wears Prada, Mamma Mia, Doubt and the recently released Julie & Julia.

Adapted from two best-selling memoirs, Julie Powell's Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, and Julia Child's My Life in France, Nora Ephron's film, Julie & Julia is the first major motion picture to be based on a blog. The film follows Powell, a temp secretary who spends one year attempting to cook every recipe in Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Intertwined with Powell's story, Child's follows her and her husband, Paul's life in 1940s and 1950s Paris while he was working as a foreign diplomat.

Complete List of Winners:

Picture: "Avatar"

Actor: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart"

Actress: Meryl Streep, "Julie & Julia"

Director: Kathryn Bigelow, "The Hurt Locker"

Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"

Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, "Precious"

Breakthrough Performer: Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds"

Debut Director: Marc Webb, "(500) Days of Summer"

Ensemble Cast: "In the Loop"

Screenplay: "Inglourious Basterds," Quentin Tarantino

Documentary: "The Cove"

Foreign Language: "The White Ribbon"

Animated: "Up"

Cinematography: "Inglourious Basterds," Robert Richardson

Film Music or Score: "Crazy Heart," Steve Bruton & T. Bone Burnett; music supervisor: Jeffrey Pollack

Top 11 Films of 2009:

* "Adventureland"
* "Avatar"
* "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
* "The Hurt Locker"
* "Inglourious Basterds"
* "The Messenger"
* "Precious"
* "A Serious Man"
* "Two Lovers"
* "Up"
* "Up in the Air"

 

 

 

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