Awards Tour: D.C. Film Critics Name Up in the Air as Year's Best

What else won big in our nation's capital?

by | December 7, 2009 | Comments

The critics of our nation’s capital named their favorites of the year, honoring films like Up in the Air, The Hurt Locker, Precious, and An Education. As one of the earlier awards presented to honor 2009’s best, we’ll see if DC’s winners and nominees will be a precursor of award shows to come. Read on to see the full list of winners!


Best Feature


The Hurt Locker


The Hurt Locker

98%


Inglourious Basterds


Inglourious Basterds

88%


Precious


Precious

91%


Up


Up

98%


Up in the Air


Up in the Air

84%


Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow

The Hurt Locker


The Hurt Locker

98%

Lee Daniels

Precious


Precious

91%

Clint Eastwood

Invictus


Invictus

83%

Jason Reitman

Up in the Air


Up in the Air

84%

Quentin Tarantino

Inglourious Basterds


Inglourious Basterds

88%


Best Actor

George Clooney

Brad Pitt


Up in the Air

84%

Colin Firth

Colin Firth


A Single Man

83%

Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman


Invictus

83%

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen


The Road

72%

Jeremy Renner

Jeremy Renner


The Hurt Locker

98%


Best Actress

Sandra Bullock

Sandra Bullock


The Blind Side

71%

Carey Mulligan

Carey Mulligan


An Education

94%

Maya Rudolph

Maya Rudolph


Away We Go

66%

Gabourey Sidibe

Gabourey Sidibe


Precious

91%

Meryl Streep

Meryl Streep


Julie & Julia

75%


Best Supporting Actor

Woody Harrelson

Woody Harrelson


The Messenger

90%

Anthony Mackie

Anthony Mackie


The Hurt Locker

77%

Alfred Molina

Alfred Molina


An Education

94%

Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci


The Lovely Bones

56%

Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz


Inglourious Basterds

88%


Best Supporting Actress

Vera Farmiga

Vera Farmiga


Up in the Air

84%

Anna Kendrick

Anna Kendrick


Up in the Air

84%

Mo’Nique

Mo'Nique


Precious

91%

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore


A Single Man

83%

Samantha Morton

Samantha Morton


The Messenger

90%


Best Breakthrough Performance Best Ensemble

Anna Kendrick for
Up in the Air (84%)

The Hurt Locker (98%)

Christian McKay for Me and Orson
Welles
(81%)

Nine (43%)

Carey Mulligan for
An Education (94%)

Precious (91%)

Jeremy Renner for
The Hurt Locker

(98%)

Star Trek
(95%)

Gabourey Sidibe for
Precious (91%)

Up in the Air (84%)
Best Screenplay, Original Best Screenplay, Adapted
(500) Days of Summer (87%)
The Blind Side (71%)

The Hurt Locker
(98%)

An Education (94%)

Inglourious Basterds  (88%)

Precious (91%)
A Serious Man
(87%)

The Road (72%)

Up (98%)

Up in the Air (84%)
Best Animated Film Best Foreign Film

Coraline
(94%)

Broken Embraces
(82%)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (92%)

Red Cliff (87%)

9 (56%)

Sin Nombre
(88%)

Ponyo
(91%)

Summer Hours
(92%)

Up (98%) 

The White Ribbon
(89%)
Best Art Direction Best Documentary

The Lovely Bones
(56%)

Anvil!
The Story of Anvil
(98%)

Nine (43%)


Capitalism: A Love Story
(75%)

Star Trek
(95%)

The Cove (95%)

Where
the Wild Things Are

(72%)
Food, Inc. (98%)

The Young
Victoria
(73%)

Good Hair (94%)



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