Carey Mulligan Nabs Two Chicago Film Critics Awards

This morning, the recipients of the Chicago Film Critics Awards were announced and theater's Carey Mulligan walked away with two honors, one for Best Actress in a Feature Film and the other for Most Promising Performer.  As previously reported, the nominees also included some theatrical favorites including Meryl Streep  for Julia & Julia, and Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man. Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air" and Spike Jonze' "Where the Wild Things Are" each scored six nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. For the full list of nominees, click here.

The big winner was undoubtedly The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow's incendiary action drama following the lives of the members of a bomb disposal unit stationed in Iraq. The film swept all five awards that it was nominated for, taking home prizes for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (for Mark Boal), Best Actor (Jeremy Renner) and Best Cinematography (Barry Ackroyd).

The final round of voting for the CFCA awards concluded at 6:00 PM CST on December 20.  For more information visit www.chicagofilmcritics.org.

The 2009 Chicago Film Critics Recipients Are:BEST PICTURE: The Hurt Locker

BEST DIRECTOR: Kathryn Bigelow--The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTOR: Jeremy Renner--The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS: Carey Mulligan--An Education

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Christoph Waltz--Inglourious Basterds

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Mo'nique--Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push' by Sapphire

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Mark Boal--The Hurt Locker

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner--Up in the Air

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: The White Ribbon

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Up

BEST DOCUMENTARY: Anvil: The Story of Anvil

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Barry Ackroyd--The Hurt Locker

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Up--Michael Giacchino

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER: Carey Mulligan--An Education

MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER: Neill Blomkamp--District 9

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