Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2009

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

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

  Best Actress

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

  Best Animated Film

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

  Best Cinematography

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

  Best Director

• 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

• The Cove
• Food, Inc.
• Tyson

  Best Film

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

  Best Foreign Language Film

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

  Best Original Score

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

  Best Screenplay – Adapted

• 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

• 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

• Peter Capaldi – In the Loop
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones

  Best Supporting Actress

• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
• Julianne Moore – A Single Man
• Natalie Portman – Brothers

  Most Promising Filmmaker

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

  Most Promising Performer

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