Up in the Air won Best Film from eleven awards ceremonies, including the Florida Film Critics Circle, Iowa Film Critics, Southeastern Film Critics, and Vancouver Film Critics Circle. Reitman also held a Q&A and pep talk with film students at the University of Central Florida. The episode is completed the following morning just after 7am, with audio and picture lock lasting until the afternoon, after which supervising producer Frank C. Agnone II takes the master tape to a nearby uplink facility, where it is sent to Comedy Central in New York hours before it airs nationwide. Fed by a central air compressor, the domes continually adjusted for load and road conditions (via valves and solenoids) for a smooth, level ride. Air India bombing, which incorporated factual details of the tragedy. Following the positive response the film received at the Telluride Film Festival, Paramount intended to move Up in the Air from its original release date of December 4, 2009, planning for a November 13 limited release going wide before the Thanksgiving holiday. The film expanded to 1,895 theaters on December 23. It completed its domestic run on April 8, 2010, with a total domestic gross of $83.8 million and a foreign total of $83 million for a worldwide gross of $166.8 million.

In its third weekend, it broke into the top 10 as it widened to 175 theaters and came in at number 8 with $3.2 million. The film also tied for third place in the Toronto International Film Festival Indiewire poll. Up in the Air was the centerpiece for the 18th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival, which was held from November 12 to November 22, 2009. The film was shown November 14, 2009 at the Tivoli Theater in University City, Missouri with Jason Reitman and Michael Beugg in attendance. The first St. Louis press screening happened on October 28, 2009, at the Tivoli Theater. Yukon Jake, who performed in the wedding scene in Up in the Air, provided entertainment during the party prior to the screening. Kevin Renick, the St. Louis musician who wrote the song Up in the Air, performed half an hour prior to the screening. The Starz Denver Film Festival closed on November 22, 2009, with a screening of Up in the Air, with an introduction by J.K.

On Metacritic, the film has a rating score of 83 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”. The film garnered five nominations from the Satellite Awards, with Rolfe Kent, the film’s score composer, winning the Best Original Score award. Up in the Air earned various awards and nominations, in categories ranging from recognition of the film itself to its screenplay, direction and editing, to the performance of the three primary actors – George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, and Anna Kendrick. Clooney, Farmiga and Kendrick were each nominated for an award at the 16th Screen Actors Guild Awards, but ultimately lost out. On November 18, 2009, Backstage and Paramount Pictures had a special screening of Up in the Air for Screen Actors Guild and Backstage members at The Paramount Theatre (on the Paramount Lot), Los Angeles, California. Reitman and Turner also received recognition for the film’s screenplay from the Writers Guild of America, where they won the Best Adapted Screenplay award. The film also received five nominations at the 67th Golden Globe Awards, with Reitman and Turner taking the award for Best Screenplay. Rising Star Award from Palm Springs International Film Festival for her role in the film.

The Palm Springs International Film Society showed Up in the Air on Thursday, October 29, 2009, at the Regal Cinema in Palm Springs, California. Up in the Air closed the Austin Film Festival on October 29, 2009, at the Paramount. However, this schedule conflicted with the release of The Men Who Stare at Goats, another Clooney film. The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association named Up in the Air Best Picture and awarded Reitman Best Director and Best Screenplay with Turner, and Clooney was given the award for Best Actor. Reitman showed Up in the Air at ShowEast in Orlando, Florida on October 26 and October 27, 2009, and asked for the movie theater owners and managers to support the picture as fervently as they did his film Juno two years earlier. Hutchinson, Leonard Patrick, “History of the Playground Area of Northwest Florida”, Great Outdoors Publishing Co., St. Petersburg, Florida, 1st ed., 1961, no Library of Congress card number, no ISBN, p.