Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009

8th WAFCA Awards
Date	December 7, 2009 (2009-12-07)
Highlights
Best Film	Up in the Air
Best Director	Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Best Actor	George Clooney
Best Actress	Carey Mulligan
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The 8th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were given on December 7, 2009.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Best Film:

• Up in the Air

• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• 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 Mortensen - The Road
• 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 & 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 S. 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 - Coen brothers
• 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:

• Up

• 9
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• 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

References

External links

• The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

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