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

References

External links The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association