Tusi se faaauauina mo lenei parakalafa - Na maua e le ata tifaga ni filifiliga se lima mai le Satellite Awards, faatasi ai ma Rolfe Kent, o le tusitala o le ata tifaga, na manumalo i le faailoga o le Best Original Score. O Clooney, Farmiga ma Kendrick na filifilia uma mo se faailoga i le 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards
, ae na iʻu lava ina lē taulau. Na maua e Kendrick le MTV Movie Award mo le Best Breakthrough Performance ma le Rising Star Award mai le Palm Springs International Film Festival mo lana matafaioi i le ata. O le "Up in the Air" na manumalo i le Best Film mai le sefulutasi sauniga o faailoga, e aofia ai le Florida Film Critics Circle, Iowa Film Critics, Southeastern Film Critics, ma le Vancouver Film Critics Circle. O le ata na maua ai ni filifiliga se fa mo le Best Cast mai le Broadcast Film Critics Association, Central Ohio Film Critics, Denver Film Critics Society, ma le Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association. I le Kansas City Film Critics Circle ma le National Board of Review, na manumalo ai le ata "Up in the Air" i faailoga uma na filifilia ai. O le tagata fai ofu o Danny Glicker na filifilia mo lana galuega e le Costume Designers Guild i le vaega o Ata Tifaga Faʻaonapo nei. E le gata i lea, o le ata na aofia ai i lisi o ata e sefulu sili ona lelei o le 2009 e Roger Ebert, le American Film Institute, ma le "The New York Times".