The 8th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2009, were given on 14 December 2009.

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • The Hurt Locker
• Best Director:
  • Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
• Best Original Screenplay:
  • Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino
• Best Adapted Screenplay:
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson
• Best Actor:
  • Colin Firth - A Single Man
• Best Actress:
  • Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Mo'Nique - Precious
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Coraline
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • You, the Living (Du levande) • Sweden/Germany/France/Denmark/Norway/Japan
• Best Documentary:
  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Best Cinematography:
  • A Serious Man - Roger Deakins
• Marlon Riggs Award (for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community):
  • Frazer Bradshaw - Everything Strange and New [1]
  • Barry Jenkins - Medicine for Melancholy [2]
• Special Citation:
  • Sita Sings the Blues
• In Memoriam:
  • Rose Kaufman