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 edit
Best Actor edit
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 edit
- Abbie Cornish – Bright Star
- Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
- Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
- Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Best Animated Film edit
Best Cinematography edit
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 edit
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 edit
Best Film edit
Best Foreign Language Film edit
Best Original Score edit
- Avatar – James Horner
- Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
- The Informant! – Marvin Hamlisch
- Where the Wild Things Are – Carter Burwell & Karen Orzolek
Best Screenplay – Adapted edit
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 edit
- 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 edit
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 edit
- Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
- Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
- Julianne Moore – A Single Man
- Natalie Portman – Brothers
Most Promising Filmmaker edit
- Scott Cooper – Crazy Heart
- Cary Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
- Duncan Jones – Moon
- Marc Webb – (500) Days of Summer