Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009 Explained

Number:	8
Award:	WAFCA Awards
Best Film:	Up in the Air
Best Direction:	Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Best Actor:	George Clooney
Best Actress:	Carey Mulligan
Last:	2008
Next:	2010

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

• 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

• 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

External links

• The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2009 WAFCA Awards . WAFCA press release . December 7, 2009 . December 19, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20231201192840/http://www.wafca.com/awards/2009.htm . 2023-12-01 . dead.