The Academy Award Nominations

February 10, 2010

With nine nominations each, The Hurt Locker and Avatar are the films with the momentum going into the Oscars. These two are most likely the front runners for Best Picture, though I wouldn't count out Inglourious Basterds which received eight nominations.

Here are the nominees for this year's Academy Awards which will be held on March 7, 2010.

Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges- Crazy Heart
George Clooney- Up in the Air
Colin Firth- A Single Man
Morgan Freeman- Invictus
Jeremy Renner- The Hurt Locker

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon- Invictus
Woody Harrelson- The Messenger
Christopher Plummer- The Last Station
Stanley Tucci- The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz- Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock- The Blind Side
Helen Mirren- The Last Station
Carey Mulligan- An Education
Gabourey Sidibe- Precious
Meryl Streep- Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz- Nine
Vera Farmiga- Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal- Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick- Up in the Air
Mo'Nique- Precious

Best Director
James Cameron- Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow- The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino- Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels- Precious
Jason Reitman- Up in the Air

Best Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Best Documentary Short
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit a la Berlin

Best Animated Feature
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Best Foreign Language Film
Ajami (Israel)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophete (France)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

Best Original Screenplay
Mark Boal- The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino- Inglourious Basterds
Alessandra Camon and Oren Moverman- The Messenger
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen- A Serious Man
Bob Peterson, Peter Docter; story by Pete Doctor, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy- Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell- District 9
Nick Hornby- An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche- In the Loop
Geoffrey Fletcher- Precious
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner- Up in the Air

Best Cinematography
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Best Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Animated Short Film
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Live Action Short Film
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Best Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Best Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Best Original Score
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Best Original Song
"Almost There" music and lyrics by Randy Newman- The Princess and the Frog
"Down in New Orleans" music and lyrics by Randy Newman- The Princess and the Frog
"Loin de Paname" music by Reinhardt Wagner, lyrics by Frank Thomas- Paris 36
"Take It All" music and lyrics by Maury Yeston- Nine
"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett- Crazy Heart

Best Makeup
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria