2009 | Academy Awards | Grammy Award | 2009 in music | Avatar (2009 film) | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 | New Jersey gubernatorial election, 2009 | Eurovision Song Contest 2009 | Latin Grammy Award | Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Awards | Stevie Awards | 2009 Summer Universiade | National Film Awards | International Tamil Film Awards | 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships | 2009 NFL season | Karnataka State Film Awards | Grammy Award for Song of the Year | 2009 World Championships in Athletics | European Parliament election, 2009 | 79th Academy Awards | 2009 Southeast Asian Games | 85th Academy Awards | 82nd Academy Awards | 2009 WTA Tour | 2009 ATP World Tour | 1st Hum Awards | United Football League (2009) | Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year |
Pensado won his Grammy Award, alongside fellow engineers Jaycen Joshua and Kuk Harrell, for Mary J. Blige's 2008 Best Contemporary R&B Album, Growing Pains.
He often looks to the sciences for his subject matter, resulting in pieces such as The Garden of Cosmic Speculation (inspired by Charles Jencks' garden in Scotland that incorporates modern physics into its design, and nominated for Best Contemporary Classical Composition at the 2009 Grammy Awards) and Trivia, written for the Weilerstein Trio, which counts Richard Wolfson's book Simply Einstein as a source.