Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009

The 8th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009 were given in December 2009.

Winners and nominees

• Best Film:
  • Up in the Air
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• 9
• Precious
• Up

• Best Director:
  • Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
• Lee Daniels - Precious
• Clint Eastwood - Invictus
• Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

• Best Actor:
  • George Clooney - Up in the Air
• Colin Firth - A Single Man
• Morgan Freeman - Invictus
• Viggo Mortenson - The Road
• Elijah Wood - 9 (2009 film)
• Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

• Best Actress:
  • Carey Mulligan - An Education
• Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
• Maya Rudolph - Away We Go
• Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
• Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia

• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
• Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
• Anthony Mackie - The Hurt Locker
• Alfred Molina - An Education
• Stanley Tucci - Lovely Bones

• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Mo'Nique - Precious
• Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
• Julianne Moore - A Single Man
• Samantha Morton - The Messenger

• Best Adapted Screenplay:
  • Up in the Air - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
• An Education - Nick Hornby
• The Blind Side - John Lee Hancock
• Precious - Geoffrey Fletcher
• The Road - Joe Penhall

• Best Original Screenplay:
  • Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
• (500) Days of Summer - Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
• A Serious Man - Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
• The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal
• Up - Pete Docter, Bob Peterson and Thomas McCarthy

• Best Breakthrough Performance:
  • Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
• Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
• Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles
• Carey Mulligan - An Education
• Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

• Best Cast:
  • The Hurt Locker
• Nine
• Precious
• Star Trek
• Up in the Air

• Best Animated Film:
  • 9
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• UP
• Ponyo

• Best Documentary Film:
  • Food, Inc.
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Capitalism: A Love Story
• The Cove
• Good Hair

• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Sin Nombre • Mexico
• Broken Embraces • Spain
• Red Cliff • China
• Summer Hours • France
• The White Ribbon • Austria-Germany

• Best Art Direction:
  • Nine
• Lovely Bones
• Star Trek
• Where the Wild Things Are
• The Young Victoria