George Clooney, Up in the Air Win Top Prizes from Central Ohio Film Critics

George Clooney's hit movie Up in the Air won the top prize in the 2009 Central Ohio Film Critics Association on Jan. 7, 2010.

Up in the Air, which stars Clooney as a free-spirited frequent flier, won Best Film in the eighth annual awards. The movie also collected awards for Best Actor (Clooney), Best Director (Jason Reitman) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Reitman and Sheldon Turner)

Clooney also won the Actor of the Year award for his work in Up in the Air, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and the animated Fantastic Mr. Fox.

Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's Nazi hunter movie, also captured four awards: Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actor (Christopher Waltz), Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino), and Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson).

The candy-colored Up won two awards: Best Animated Film, and Best Score (Michael Giacchino). The coming-of-age film An Education won Best Actress and Breakthrough Film Artist for its star, Carey Mulligan.

Other COFCA winners include:

• Mo'Nique (Best Supporting Actress for Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire)

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Best Documentary)

• Goodbye Solo (Best Overlooked Film)

• Waltz with Bashir (Best Foreign Film)

The Central Ohio Film Critics Association consists of more than 20 critics from print, radio, television, and other media. COFCA announced the awards at a private party on Jan. 7

Past winners of COFCA's Best Film Award, from 2002-08, were Punch-Drunk Love, Lost in Translation, Million Dollar Baby, A History of Violence, Children of Men, No Country for Old Men, and WALL-E.

Here is a complete list of this year's winners and runners-up:

Best Films

1. Up in the Air

2. Up

3. An Education

4. Fantastic Mr. Fox

5. Inglourious Basterds

6. The Hurt Locker

7. In the Loop

8. (500) Days of Summer

9. A Serious Man

10. A Single Man

Best Director

-Jason Reitman, Up in the Air

-Runner-up: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor

-George Clooney, Up in the Air

-Runner-up: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart

Best Actress

-Carey Mulligan, An Education

-Runner-up: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist

Best Supporting Actor

-Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

-Runner-up: Peter Capaldi, In the Loop

Best Supporting Actress

-Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

-Runner-up: Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds

Best Ensemble

-Inglourious Basterds

-Runner-up: Up in the Air

Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work)

-George Clooney, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Up in the Air

-Runner-up: Woody Harrelson, The Messenger and Zombieland

Breakthrough Film Artist

-Carey Mulligan, An Education (for acting)

-Runner-up: Neill Blomkamp, District 9 (for directing and screenwriting)

Best Cinematography

-Robert Richardson, Inglourious Basterds

-Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle, Antichrist

Best Adapted Screenplay

-Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

-Runner-up: Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach, Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Original Screenplay

-Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

-Runner-up: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, Up

Best Score

-Michael Giacchino, Up

-Runner-up: Carter Burwell and Karen O., Where the Wild Things Are

Best Documentary

-Anvil! The Story of Anvil

-Runner-up: The Cove

Best Foreign Language Film

-Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)

-Runner-up: Summer Hours (L'heure d'été)

Best Animated Film

-Up

-Runner-up: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Best Overlooked Film

-Goodbye Solo

-Runner-up: Moon