Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2009 Explained

22nd CFCA Awards

December 21, 2009

----
Best Film:
The Hurt Locker

The 22nd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 21, 2009, honored the best in film for 2009.

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
• George Clooney – Up in the Air
• Matt Damon – The Informant!
• Michael Stuhlbarg – A Serious Man

Best Actress

Carey Mulligan – An Education

• Abbie Cornish – Bright Star
• Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Animated Film

Up

• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Ponyo
• The Princess and the Frog

Best Cinematography

The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd

• Avatar – Mauro Fiore
• Bright Star – Greg Fraser
• Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
• Where the Wild Things Are – Lance Acord

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

• Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
• Spike Jonze – Where the Wild Things Are
• Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Documentary Film

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

• The Cove
• Food, Inc.
• Tyson

Best Film

The Hurt Locker

• Inglourious Basterds
• A Serious Man
• Up in the Air
• Where the Wild Things Are

Best Foreign Language Film

The White Ribbon, Germany

• Broken Embraces, Spain
• Red Cliff, China/Hong Kong
• Sin Nombre, Spain
• Summer Hours, France

Best Original Score

Up – Michael Giacchino

• Avatar – James Horner
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
• The Informant! – Marvin Hamlisch
• Where the Wild Things Are – Carter Burwell & Karen Orzolek

Best Screenplay – Adapted

Up in the Air – Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner

• An Education – Nick Hornby
• In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche
• The Informant! – Scott Z. Burns
• Where the Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers

Best Screenplay – Original

The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal

• Away We Go – Dave Eggers & Vendela Vida
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up – Bob Peterson

Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

• Peter Capaldi – In the Loop
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
• Stanley Tucci – The 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
• Natalie Portman – Brothers

Most Promising Filmmaker

Neill Blomkamp – District 9

• Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart
• Cary Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
• Duncan Jones – Moon
• Marc Webb – (500) Days of Summer

Most Promising Performer

Carey Mulligan – An Education

• Sharlto Copley – District 9
• Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
• Max Records – Where the Wild Things Are
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20100224070822/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62&Itemid=60