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Oscar Nominations for 2010
The Oscar Nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards are finally in and it seems like there are clear favorites and a few surprises on the list. While there are ten nominations for best picture, the battle this year will be between James Cameron’s super-hit Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker–which is making a name for itself lately.
Both, Cameron and Bigelow are also nominated for the best director category, and a total of nine nominations each. Avatar has already won best drama and director awards at the Golden Globes, but The Hurt Locker beat it at the Directors Guild of America Awards. Head to head completion indeed.
Other entries to note are the addition of low-budget yet high quality drama District 9, as well as the animated film Up.
Nominations are held through voting by the 6,000 strong members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The 82nd Academy Awards will be held at 5pm Pacific Standard Time (PST) on 7 March 2010 and broadcast live around the world from the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. This year, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin (who starred together in It’s Complicated) will host the show.
Last time a James Cameron movie was up for best picture was Titanic, which won for best picture at the 70th Academy Awards on 23 March 1998. That day recorded the greatest ever viewership of the awards show by a wide margin–57.25 million viewers. Will we do better this time?
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman – The Messenger
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
Peter Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy – Up
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, Sheldon Turner – Up in the Air
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Loin de Paname from Paris 36
Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart
Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
District 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Avatar – Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson
Inglourious Basterds – Wylie Stateman
Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Up – Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Inglourious Basterds – Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
Star Trek – Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Best Short Film (Live Action)
The Door – Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
Instead of Abracadabra – Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
Miracle Fish – Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Best Short Film (Animated)
French Roast – Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O’Grimms Sleeping Beauty – Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) – Javier Recio Gracia
Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin
A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park
81st Academy Awards. Photo: BDS2006
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