Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2009

Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

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

Carey Mulligan – An Education

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

Up

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

The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd

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

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

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

• Capitalism: A Love Story
• The Cove
• Food, Inc.
• Tyson

The Hurt Locker

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

The White Ribbon, Germany

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

Up – Michael Giacchino

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

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

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

Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

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

Mo'Nique – Precious

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

Neill Blomkamp – District 9

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

Carey Mulligan – An Education

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