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
- Abbie Cornish – Bright Star
- Maya Rudolph – Away We Go
- Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
- Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Best Animated Film
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
Best Film
Best Foreign Language Film
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
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
- 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
- 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 – (500) 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