[Oh yes, it's the] The Foxes! '09

The honorable mentions:

Kristen Stewart

I know, Twilight. I never saw either nor did I read the novels of abstinence porn Stephanie Meyers gave to the literary diarrhea pile. But I don't know if you saw the movie Adventureland, but god damn. Some of the better acting I've seen in a while (although that had much to do with the realism of post-college adolescence and usage of Violent Femmes' first album). Her vulnerability and connection with Jesse Eisenberg made me wish I was more nerdy and shy, just so I seemed appealing to her. Mmm...

Emma Stone

Speaking of Jesse Eisenberg, I noticed Emma Stone going from the hot girl from Superbad to being sexy woman in Zombieland. Her film history isn't really anything to salute (cough, The House Bunny, cough), but her self awareness put her in the top rung of hotness.

Alia Shawkat

She almost won my misogynistic contest this year. I was re-watching Arrested Development (she plays Maeby Funke, and very well) a few months back and thought to myself "I bet she's really hot now". I was right. First off, she's in that show (and was WAY smarter than most child actors). Second, she's hot. Third, she's a student at Berkeley (studying poli sci, no less)? Triple threat? Correct. I never actually saw Whip It, but seeing her in clips of the movie was enough to convince me.

Melanie Laurent

Shosanna Dreyfus from Inglourious Basterds. Nobody made killing Nazi more sexy. The unfortunate thing: not enough cinema to find in this country of her. That's what you get with the French. I've been swooning over her since August, and she came in a close second.

The Winner:

Christina Hendricks

When I first started coming up with ideas for this year's picks it wasn't even fair. She's just so perfect, if not purely on an aesthetic basis. She's the most intrinsic subtle character on the show who exposes such fantastic guise of confidence in such failure surrounding her. It may even be sexist to think that the hottest woman I've seen this year is portraying an archetype sassy beauty of the 1960s, but I really don't care (the only downside is she's married to this guy). Ladies and gentlemen, Christina Hendricks. Mmmmmm......