UPDATED: You Nominate Five Films for Best Picture of 2009

I think 5 feels a little short. After all, the Academy will be nominating 10 films this year and so I think we should have the same opportunity. Anyway my vote has been counted. We ll see what happens.

My Picks:
1. Precious
2. Where The Wild Things Are
3. Up in the Air
4. Invictus
5. Public Enemies
Honorable mentions
6.(500) Days of Summer
7. The Hurt Locker
8. Up
9. A Serious Man
10. District 9

Basterds, 500 Days, The Hurt Locker, Watchmen and Black Dynamite

Very good idea…
just looking at the voting so far, very surprised to see New Moon in the top 10 on this site!!

My top 5:
Avatar
Moon
Inglorious Basterds
District 9
The Damned United

Avatar and The Hurt Locker are in a close battle for 1st!!! Why would any of you include New Moon??? Those books and movies are stupid!

adventureland? Really?

max and mary!!!!

glad to see basterds at the #1 spot, as it should be

An Education
Where the Wild Things Are
In the Loop
The Damned United
Pirate Radio

I know, I'm a bit of a minority

top 5 films 2009
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Avatar
3. The hurt Locker
4. Up
5. Up in the Air

Why wasn't the "Ugly Truth included"….it was far funnier than The Proposal and The Hangover is strictly a Guy movie …JMO! I voted for Law Abiding Citizen …one of my favorites!

I don't understand all of the enthusiasm for Avatar in the context of this list. The experience of seeing it was amazing, but can we really say that it was Best Picture of the year? It's hard for me to place a movie with that weak of a script in my Top 5. I think the 3-D movies at Disney World are fun too but I'm not ready to call those the best of the year. Technically speaking, the film was outstanding, but movies are made up of so much more than good technology. I'm curious, other than the special effects, what has made everyone so excited about Avatar?

@Dan: To me Avatar is the Best Picture of the year because of the impact it left one me. I went to the midnight release with average expectations and I was blown away. The story, the acting, the visual/audio effects, the script, and the originality all were above and beyond in my book. I thoroughly enjoy Zoe and Sigourney's performances. Sam could have done a bit better but I believe he was perfect for the part. Plus the movie had a major anti-war and environmental message which are part of my morality/humanity. The movie was very well made and it's nice to know that someone out there can spend $200 million on movie and make it what it's worth. (I.e. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, one of the WORST films I have ever seen.) Mind you that I am only 16 years old and am a major movie critic and I think beyond my years, but truly I believe Avatar was spectacularly epic.

It's kinda funny (in a weird way) that one of my five picks has only one vote besides mine. That's "Two Lovers".

@Brad Brevet: But therein lies the problem. It's a fanbase, voting for a particular film. "Fanbase" being the keyword. They like the film and they vote. How is that skewing the results? If a big group of people were voting for something they hated with the goal of putting it number one, then I would see that as something being skewed. But it's not, it's a group of fans who want their favorite movie to be number one, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I have only seen about thirty films from this year.

1) Inglourious Basterds
2) Where the Wild Things Are
3) (500) Days of Summer
4) Zombieland
5) Moon

5 Best:
1. The Hurt Locker
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. (500) Days of Summer
4. The Hangover
5. District 9

5 Worst:
1. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen
2. Avatar (Most Over-rated film of the year)
3. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
4. Jennifer's Body
5. Land of the Lost

I think you delete the name and email address of the people that take part in this – immediately.

1. The Blind Side
2. The Proposal
3. Did You Hear About the Morgans'

You left out "The Ugly Truth"… I loved how it didn't pull punches and was R-rated. Finally a rom-com for grown-ups

best films 2009
1. Inglourious Basterds
2. Avatar
3.Up
4.Up in the Air
5.The Hurt Locker
6.500 days of summer
7.Precious
8.a serious man
9.star trek
10.district 9

@Brad Brevet, Why isn't Battle For Terra on the list?

my picks: Star Trek
GI JOE:The Rise of Cobra
This Is It
Gamer
He's Just Not That Into You

2009 best films
1.Inglourious Basterds
2.The White Ribbon
3.Two Lovers
4.Where the wild things are
5.Crazy heart
6.a single man
7.of time and the city
8.a prophet
9.julia
10.moon

best movies of 2009
1. inglourious basterds
2.public enemies
3.summer hours
4.fantastic mr fox
5.ponyo
6.tokyo sonata
7.brightstar
8.two lovers
9.antichrist
10.sherlock holmes

My choice for other was Goodbye Solo.

Damn. The Ugly Truth doesn't even get included on the top 175. Am I the only one who liked that movie? Vote.

The Ugly Truth is one of my five top movies. Hilarious. THe humor was witty and not there just to amuse teenagers. Please add it to your list.

My other picks:
Law Abiding Citizen. Love Gerard Butler!
Invictus
Avatar
New Moon – I'm in my thirties and NOT a mother…. The books are the best. The movie was beautiful and did a great job encompassing a 600 page book.

1.Avatar
2.UP
3.The Hurt Locker
4.Inglourious Basterds
5.(500) Days of Summer

The Ugly Truth

The Ugly Truth? really? is this the spamming you were talking about Brad?

The White Ribbon
Inglorious Bastards
Drag Me to Hell
Whatever Works
Nine (I didn't see it but I'm excitet since day one)

Top 5 films of the year
1.Star Trek
2.Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
3.Public Enemies
4.Sherlock Holmes
5.Bad Lieutenent

Honorable mentions: 9, Inglourious Basterds, Up In The Air

Bottom 5 films of the year
1.Ninja Assassin
2.Planet 51
3.Amelia
4.Push
5.The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Honorable mentions: Land Of The Lost, Bruno, Fame

Avatar
Up
The Hangover
Star Trek
Law Abiding Citizen

1.Inglourious Basterds
2.District 9
3.Watchmen
4.(500) Days Of Summer
5.Public Enemies

1. New Moon
2. AdventureLand
3.Up in the Air
4. Hp 6
5. Up

@Brad Brevet:

Oh ok, cant do much about them spammers I suppose.

I'm also surprised at the love for Adventureland… hey, to each his own :)

One last thing, I'm wondering as to why you gave us the option of only picking 5 movies instead of ten? I mean usually it's a top 10 year-end list (even the Academy will be picking 10 so it would've been nice to see which ones that were selected compared to the results on this site). Just curious.

My picks are:

1. Avatar
2. The Hurt Locker
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Up
5. Precious

Where is THE UGLY TRUTH????????? Not happy that it was missing from this lis!

Democracy is fun.

@Patricia Shields and a few others: The Ugly Truth is on the list. It's called "Other" and has a maximum of 28 votes at the time I posted this comment.

Five is tough. Here are mine in no particular order…

– Moon
– Up
– Coraline
– Inglourious Basterds
– Zombieland (movie was decent enough alone but the opening credits were the best i've seen for a zombie flick. period.)

I felt there was a lot of good movies this year, but very few great films, so after Inglourious Basterds, Avatar, and A Serious Man it was hard to choose. The last two spots could have been filled by a few films but I went with Fantastic Mr. Fox because of how pleasantly suprised I was with it. I'm not a huge Wes Anderson or animated film fan, but the film was very original and well made. My last choice was Big Fan just because it has stuck with me months after I've seen it. I'm glad to see atleast 3 other people also enjoyed it.

Five Best

Inglorious Basterds
500 Days of Summer
New Moon
Up in the Air
District 9

How can it be spamming when can only vote ONCE for your fav five? Did you not say to share this poll with your friends?

"So start voting and share this poll with your friends around the Internet so we can get a large group of opinions".

Why isn't The Ugly Truth included? My pics are Law Abiding Citizen, The Ugly Truth and Gamer.

my 5 best films
1. inglourious basterds
2.two lovers
3.hunger
4.fish tank
5.cheri

My Pick. (Not in order)

1. Avatar
2. Up
3. Up in the Air
4. Julie & Julia
5. Nine
6. Inglorious Basterds
7. The Princess & Frog
8. Invitcus
9. The Blind Side
10. Public Enemies

HONORABLE MENTIONS: Precious, (500) Days of Summer, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2012.

YET TO SEE:

-Hurt Locker
-Sherlock Holmes
-It's Complicated
-The Lovely Bones

Given the fact that the Academy has decided to have 10 Nominees, I will comment accordingly. Also, it must be noted that as of this posting I've yet to see An Education, It's Complicated, or Broken Embraces.

The Nominees for Best Picture (2009) are:

Avatar
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hangover
Inglorious Basterds
Invictus
Precious
Star Trek
Up
Up In The Air
Watchmen

While many of you are, no doubt in shock that I didn't include The Hurt Locker in my list. I caught a showing of this film way back in August and wasn't very impressed. Also, while the films I listed are the films which moved me the most this year, I do not believe the Academy will nominate Star Trek or Watchmen. However, this is my "dream" list.

Top 5 Movies of 2009

1. The Blind Side (Loved Bullock already, but this was a Shocker!)
2. AVATAR (Blue People, made me Laugh)
3. Up in the Air (Enjoyed this)
4. A Single Man (Good Story)
5. Crazy Heart (Jeff Bridges, Oscar Worthy as well as Bullock)

Worst 3 Movies of 2009
1.Alvin and the Chipmunks 2(Cheesy and Kiddy,make it's money though)
2.Harry Potter 6 (Enjoyed but Let Down, Rushed whilst Shooting)
3.Jennifer's Body (Let me Down, Not so Bad, Just Big Dissapointment)

The Good Ones

The Propoal
(500) Days of Summer
Law abiding Citizen
Zombieland
The Ugly Truth
Julie & Julia
UP!

Since you asked, my Top 5 (in no particular order)

The Hangover (this is my favorite movie of 2009)
Extract
Law Abiding Citizen
Star Trek
Other: The Ugly Truth (I obviously like comedies and I loved the raunch factor in this one)

I've missed a lot of potential nominees (looking to correct that), so my rankings aren't quite complete…

In order:
1. Up in the Air
2. Inglourious Basterds
3. In the Loop
4. Avatar
5. The Blind Side

I'm shocked that In the Loop was beaten by X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is so far my third least favorite film of the year, and 2012, which I have literally no desire to see.

I'm happy to see that the spammer only supports Gerard Butler's kick-ass guy movies and not his stale-ass romantic comedy.