2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Picture

1. The Hurt Locker
2. Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)
3. Inglourious Basterds

Best Director

1. Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
2. Olivier Assayas – Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)
3. Wes Anderson – Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Actor

1. Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
2. Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
3. Nicolas Cage – The Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans

Best Actress

1. Yolande Moreau – Séraphine
2. Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia and Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Abbie Cornish – Bright Star

Best Supporting Actor

1. Paul Schneider – Bright Star
1. Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
3. Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles

Best Supporting Actress

1. Mo'Nique – Precious
2. Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
2. Samantha Morton – The Messenger

Best Screenplay

1. Joel and Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
2. Olivier Assayas – Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)
3. Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Cinematography

1. Christian Berger – The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band)
2. Barry Ackroyd – The Hurt Locker
3. Jan Troell and Mischa Gavrjusjov – Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick)

Best Production Design

1. Nelson Lowry – Fantastic Mr. Fox
2. Rick Carter – Avatar
3. Henry Selick – Coraline

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)
2. Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick)
3. 35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums)
3. Police, Adjective (Politist, adjectiv)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. The Beaches of Agnès (Les plages d'Agnès)
2. Tyson
3. Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Film Heritage Awards

1. Restoration of Rashomon by The Academy Film Archive, The National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. with funding provided by Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and The Film Foundation.
2. Bruce Posner for restoration of Manhatta.
3. Treasures from American Film Archives, Vol. 4: Avant Garde 1947-1986 (National Film Preservation Foundation).
4. Warner Archive Collection.
5. The Red Shoes. Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive with funding provided by The Film Foundation, HFPA and the Louis B. Mayer Foundation.
6. Kino International Avant-Garde Volume 3 (Experimental Cinema 1922-1954).