The8thWashington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were given on December 7, 2009.^[1]

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 andSheldon 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 andMichael H. Weber
• The Hurt Locker –Mark Boal
• A Serious Man –Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up –Pete Docter,Bob Peterson, andTom 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

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