Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards 2009

The 8th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were given on December 7, 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

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
• 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

External links

• The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association