Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009

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

Open Season 2

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