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The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films. Also in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of that year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five (the first time since the 1943 awards). List of years in film.
Highest-grossing films of 2009 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Avatar: 20th Century Fox: $749,766,139 2 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Paramount: $402,111,870 3 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Warner Bros. $301,959,197 4 The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Summit Entertainment: $296,623,634 5 Up: Disney: $293,004,164 6 The ...
Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. The cast includes Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first installment in the Avatar film series.
The film stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, and Bob Peterson. The film centers on Carl Fredricksen (Asner), an elderly widower who travels to South America with wilderness explorer Russell (Nagai) in order to fulfill a promise that he made to his late wife Ellie.
Moon is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (in his directorial debut) and written by Nathan Parker from a story by Jones. The film follows Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon.
Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 period mystery action film starring Robert Downey Jr. as the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin.
Orphan is a 2009 psychological horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by David Leslie Johnson from a story by Alex Mace. The film stars Vera Farmiga , Peter Sarsgaard , Isabelle Fuhrman , CCH Pounder , Jimmy Bennett and Aryana Engineer .
Adam is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Max Mayer and starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. The film follows the relationship between a young autistic man named Adam (Dancy), and Beth (Byrne). Mayer was inspired to write the film's script when he heard a radio interview with a man who had Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Disney's A Christmas Carol (or simply A Christmas Carol) is a 2009 American animated Christmas dark fantasy film produced, written for the screen and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Zemeckis' ImageMovers Digital , and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures , it is based on Charles Dickens 's 1843 novel ...
Dorian Gray is a 2009 British dark fantasy horror film based on Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, directed by Oliver Parker, and written by Toby Finlay (his first screenplay). The film stars Ben Barnes , Colin Firth , Rebecca Hall , Ben Chaplin , Emilia Fox , and Rachel Hurd-Wood .