Washington DC Film Critics Awards – Nominees and Winners

Today the first regional critics group of the season weighed in with their top picks of the year. Following in the footsteps of the National Board of Review, the DC writers also named Up in the Air the best film of 2009. Other films that earned serious praise included Precious, Inglorious Basterds, and The Hurt Locker, which are all in the running to snag one of the ten slots for this year’s Best Picture Oscar.

Check out the full list of nominees and winners below. . .

(Winners in Bold)

Best Film

The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
Up
Up in the Air

Best Actor

George Clooney in Up in the Air
Colin Firth in A Single Man
Morgan Freeman in Invictus
Viggo Mortensen in The Road
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
Carey Mulligan in An Education
Maya Rudolph in Away We Go
Gabourey Sidibe in Precious
Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor

Woody Harrelson in The Messenger
Anthony Mackie in The Hurt Locker
Alfred Molina in An Education
Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress

Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air
Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air
Mo’Nique in Precious
Julianne Moore in A Single Man
Samantha Morton in The Messenger

Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Lee Daniels for Precious
Clint Eastwood for Invictus
Jason Reitman for Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Blind Side by John Lee Hancock
An Education by Nick Hornby
Precious by Geoffrey Fletcher
The Road by Joe Penhall
Up in the Air by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Original Screenplay

(500) Days of Summer by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
The Hurt Locker by Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
A Serious Man by Joel & Ethan Coen
Up by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson

Best Ensemble

The Cast of The Hurt Locker
The Cast of Nine
The Cast of Precious
The Cast of Star Trek
The Cast of Up in the Air

Best Animated Film

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
9
Ponyo
Up

Best Foreign Film

Broken Embraces
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
Summer Hours
The White Ribbon

Best Documentary

Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Good Hair

What do you think of this year’s choices?