8th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association (2009)

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 Cast

	The Hurt Locker
	Nine
	Precious
	Star Trek
	Up in the Air

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 Art Direction

	Nine
	Lovely Bones
	Star Trek
	Where the Wild Things Are
	The Young Victoria

Best Foreign Language Film

	Sin Nombre • Mexico
	Broken Embraces • Spain
	Red Cliff • China
	Summer Hours • France
	The White Ribbon • Austria-Germany

Best Documentary Film

	Food, Inc.
	Anvil! The Story of Anvil
	Capitalism: A Love Story
	The Cove
	Good Hair

Best Animated Film

	Up
	9
	Coraline
	Fantastic Mr. Fox
	Ponyo

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