Best of 2009 (Movies): Everything But...

So it has taken over six months to post my Top 10s of 2009 - I know, it's pathetic - but, first of all, living in small town Pennsylvania does not make it easy to be an unpaid film critic, especially since I have to drive over an hour to see decent movies; second of all, two movies in my top 10 didn't even come around here until now (because they just came out on DVD); and thirdly, I was real frickin' busy this year!

So without any further ado, here are all my Top 10s besides acting and best films:

Top 10 Directors of 2009
10. Pedro Almodovar for BROKEN EMBRACES

9. Spike Jonze for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

8. Jane Campion for BRIGHT STAR

7. Louis Psihoyos for THE COVE

6. Wes Anderson for FANTASTIC MR. FOX

5. Quentin Tarantino for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

4. James Cameron for AVATAR

3. Kathryn Bigelow for THE HURT LOCKER

2. Michael Haneke for THE WHITE RIBBON

1. Tom Ford for A SINGLE MAN

Top 10 Screenplays of 2009

10. AN EDUCATION, adapted by Nick Hornby

9. IN THE LOOP, by Jesse Armstrong & Simon Blackwell & Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche

8. A SINGLE MAN, adapted by Tom Ford & David Scearce

7. DISTRICT 9, by Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell

6. FANTASTIC MR. FOX, adapted by Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach

5. UP IN THE AIR, adapted by Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner

4. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER, by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

3. THE HURT LOCKER, by Mark Boal

2. THE WHITE RIBBON, by Michael Haneke

1. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, by Quentin Tarantino

Top 10 Ensembles of 2009

10. The cast of NINE (Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Sophia Loren, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Stacy Ferguson)

9. The cast of UP IN THE AIR (George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride, J.K. Simmons, Zach Galifianakis)

8. The cast of A SINGLE MAN (Colin First, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode, Ginnifer Goodwin, Lee Pace, Jon Kortajarena, Paulette Lamori, Ryan Simpkins)

7. The cast of THE HURT LOCKER (Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Finnes, Evangeline Lilly, David Morse, Christian Camargo, Christopher Sayegh)

6. The cast of A SERIOUS MAN (Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed, Sari Lennick, Aaron Wolff, Jessica McManus, Amy Landecker)

5. The cast of PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL 'PUSH' BY SAPPHIRE (Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Lenny Kravitz, Sherri Shepherd, Stephanie Andujar, Chyna Layne, Amina Robinson, Xosha Roquemore, Angelic Zambrana, Nealla Gordon, Barret Helms)

4. The cast of IN THE LOOP (Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Anna Chlumsky, Steve Coogan, Tom Hollander, Olivia Poulet, Chris Addison, Mimi Kennedy)

3. The cast of THE MESSENGER (Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone, Steve Buscemi, Eamonn Walker)

2. The cast of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Denis Menochet, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Bruhl, Til Schweiger, Gedeon Burkhard, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak, Omar Doom, Martin Wuttke, Mike Myers, Julie Dreyfus, August Diehl)

1. The cast of THE WHITE RIBBON (Christian Friedel, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Leonard Proxauf, Leonie Benesch, Burghart Klaubner, Roxanne Duran, Ursina Lardi, Susanne Lothar, Rainer Bock, Ulrich Tukur, Thibault Serie, Fion Mutert, Steffi Kuhnert, Enno Trebs, Milijan Chatelain, Eddy Grahl, Branko Samarovski, Detlev Buck)

Top 10 Cinematographers of 2009

10. Rodrigo Prieto for BROKEN EMBRACES

9. Dion Beebe for NINE

8. Roger Deakins for A SERIOUS MAN

7. Greig Fraser for BRIGHT STAR

6. Lance Acord for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

5. Barry Ackroyd for THE HURT LOCKER

4. John de Borman for AN EDUCATION

3. Robert Richardson for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

2. Eduard Grau for A SINGLE MAN

1. Christian Berger for THE WHITE RIBBON

Top 10 Best Costume Designers of 2009

10. Hope Hanafin for (500) DAYS OF SUMMER

9. Arianne Phillips for A SINGLE MAN

8. Moidele Bickel for THE WHITE RIBBON

7. Monika Jacobs for THE LAST STATION

6. Colleen Atwood for NINE

5. Anna B. Sheppard for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

4. Odile Dicks-Mireaux for AN EDUCATION

3. Catherine Leterrier for COCO BEFORE CHANEL

2. Sandy Powell for THE YOUNG VICTORIA

1. Janet Patterson for BRIGHT STAR

Top 10 Best Scores and/or Soundtracks of 2009

10. The soundtrack of NINE

9. J. Ralph for THE COVE

8. Mary Ramos & Jim Schultz for INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

7. Abel Korzeniowski for A SINGLE MAN

6. Michael GiacchinoUP

5. Carter Burwell & Karen Orzolek for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

4. Stephen Bruton & T-Bone Burnett for CRAZY HEART

3. Randy Newman for THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

2. Alexandre Desplat for FANTASTIC MR. FOX

1. The soundtrack of (500) DAYS OF SUMMER and original music by Mychael Danna & Rob Simonsen

Top 10 Best Visual/Special Effects

10. TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

9. WATCHMEN

8. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

7. FANTASTIC MR. FOX

6. STAR TREK

5. A SINGLE MAN

4. THE HURT LOCKER

3. WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

2. DISTRICT 9

1. AVATAR