Voting for the 2009 Ursa Major Awards starts today, and the nominee list has been officially released (though many of you already saw the leaked list yesterday). The entire nomination list can be seen on the Ursa Major website. I’m not going over everything, just being snarky about a few of them.

Damn there were a lot of movies this year! Even between the three of us we didn’t manage to see enough films. Plus half of the films we all saw were total crap, (turns out New Moon still sucks on the 3rd and 4th viewings). But 2009 had some standouts, and before all the bullshit award shows start happening, here’s our picks for some of the best this year.

With a film like The Fantastic Mr. Fox there is obviously going to be more than one of us that wanted to review it. Instead of pulling rank and deleting everyone else’s accounts, I went all King Solomon on this article’s ass. Both Jakebe and I have stuff so say, and dammit we’re going to say it.