Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009

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
• The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up – Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, and Tom 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

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