title: Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2009
text: # Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2009
  
  13th TFCA Awards
  
  December 16, 2009
  
  Best Film:
  
  Hunger Inglourious Basterds
  
  The 13th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2009, were given on December 16, 2009.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * Best Actor:
     * Nicolas Cage – Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
  
  Runners-Up: George Clooney – Up in the Air, Michael Fassbender – Hunger, Colin Firth – A Single Man and Viggo Mortensen – The Road
  
  * Best Actress:
     * Carey Mulligan – An Education
  
  Runners-Up: Arta Dobroshi – Lorna's Silence and Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
  
  * Best Animated Film:
     * Fantastic Mr. Fox
  
  Runners-Up: Coraline and Up
  
  * Best Director:
     * Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
  
  Runners-Up: Steve McQueen – Hunger and Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
  
  * Best Documentary Film:
     * The Cove
  
  Runners-Up: Anvil! The Story of Anvil and The Beaches of Agnès
  
  * Best Film (tie):
     * Hunger
     * Inglourious Basterds
  
  Runner-Up: The Hurt Locker
  
  * Best First Feature:
     * Hunger
  
  Runners-Up: District 9 and (500) Days of Summer
  
  * Best Foreign Language Film:
     * The White Ribbon • Austria
  
  Runner-Up: Police, Adjective • Romania and Summer Hours • France
  
  * Best Screenplay (tie):
     * Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
     * Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
  
  Runner-Up: A Serious Man – Joel and Ethan Coen
  
  * Best Supporting Actor:
     * Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
  
  Runners-Up: Christian McKay – Me and Orson Welles and Timothy Olyphant – A Perfect Getaway
  
  * Best Supporting Actress:
     * Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
  
  Runners-Up: Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air and Mo'Nique – Precious
  
  * Jay Scott Prize for Emerging Talent:
     * Xavier Dolan
  * Rogers Canadian Film Award:
     * Polytechnique
  
  Runners-Up: The Necessities of Life and Pontypool
  
  