Nominations for the 2009 Awards are now closed and the final nominees are listed below.

Best Motion Picture – Live-action or animated feature-length movies.

• "Avatar"
• "Fantastic Mr Fox"
• "The Princess and the Frog"
• "Up"
• "Where the Wild Things Are"

Best Dramatic Short Work or Series – TV series or one-shots, advertisements or short videos.

• "The Cat Piano"
• "Partly Cloudy"
• "The Penguins of Madagascar"
• "Prep and Landing"
• "The Secret Saturdays"

Best Novel – Written works of 40,000 words or more. Serialized novels qualify only for the year that the final chapter is published.

• "Bone Crossed" by Patricia Briggs
• "Cheetah's Win" by Phil Geusz
• "Jazmyn" by Bernard Doove
• "Out of Position" by Kyell Gold
• "Return to the Hundred Acre Wood" by David Benedictus
• "The Unscratchables" by Cornelius Kane

Best Short Fiction – Stories less than 40,000 words, poetry and other short written works.

• "Drifting" by Kyell Gold
• "Moonthief" by Not Tube
• "Stop the World" by Kyell Gold
• "Thou Shalt Not Make Wrongful Use Of The Name Of Thy Lord" by Whyte Yote
• "Trading Wishes" by Kevin Frane

Best Other Literary Work – Story collections, comic collections, graphic novels, non-fiction works, and convention program books.

• "Bloom County - The Complete Library, Volume 1" By Berke Breathed
• "Draw Furries: How to Create Anthropomorphic and Fantasy Animals" by Lindsay Cibos and Jared Hodges
• "The First Book of Lapism" by Phil Geusz
• "Who Are The Furries?" by Denise Winterman
• "X" edited by Kyell Gold

Best Graphic Story – Includes comic books and serialised online stories.

• "Concession" by Immelmann
• "Furthia High" by QuetzaDrake
• "Jack" by David Hopkins
• "Lackadaisy" by Tracy J. Butler
• "Twokinds" by Tom Fischbach

Best Comic Strip – Newspaper-style strips, including those with ongoing arcs.

• "Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures" by Amber M. Williams
• "Doc Rat" by Jenner
• "Freefall" by Mark Stanley
• "Housepets!" by Rick Griffin
• "Kevin and Kell" by Bill Holbrook

Best Magazine – Professional magazines, amateur zines, fanzines, internet-only magazines.

• "ANTHRO edited" by Quentin Long
• "Heat published" by Sofawolf
• "New Fables edited" by Tim Susman
• "South Fur Lands edited" by Bernard Doove
• "Tales of the Tai-Pan Universe edited" by Gene Breshears

Best Published Illustration – Illustrations for books, magazines, convention program books, cover art for such, coffee table portfolios.

• "Gaia's Strange Seedlike Brood (Homage to Lynn Margulis)" by Patrick Farley
• "It's Beautiful" by Jailbird
• "Jazmyn" by Sara Palmer
• "New Coyote" by Kenket
• "Out of Position" by Blotch

Best Game – Computer or console games, role-playing games, board games.

• "Earth Eternal"
• "G-Force: The Video Game"
• "Predation: The Board Game"
• "Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time"