Avatar (2009 film) Avatar (2009 film) Avatar, marketed as James Cameron's Avatar, is a 2009 American epic science fiction film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron, and stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system, in order to mine the mineral unobtanium, a room-temperature superconductor. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na'vi – a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film's
London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009 Katie Jarvis - "Fish Tank" London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009 The 30th London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2009, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 18 February 2010. A Prophet Fish Tank "Let the Right One In" • Sweden Kathryn Bigelow - "The Hurt Locker" Andrea Arnold - "Fish Tank" Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche - "In the Loop" Duncan Jones - "Moon" Christoph Waltz - "Inglourious Basterds" Mo'Nique - "Precious" Colin Firth - "A Single Man" Carey Mulligan - "An Education" Michael Fassbender - "Fish Tank"