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2010 Oscar Nominees Announced![]()
This morning Anne Hathaway and Academy President Tom Sherak were on hand to announce the nominees for the 2010 Academy Awards. Avatar and The Hurt Locker each had the most nominations, nine apiece, including Best Picture. Also included in the Best Picture top 10 were surprises like District 9 and The Blind Side, as well as A Serious Man, Inglourious Basterds, An Education, Precious, Up and Up in the Air.
Inglourious Basterds was just behind in the nominations tally with eight, while Precious and Up in the Air snagged six each and Up, surprisingly enough for an animated film, scored four. Surprises included the snubbing of Invictus in Best Picture, despite the fact that Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon both scored acting nominations, and the inclusion of Maggie Gyllenhaal in Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Crazy Heart. I was thrilled to see In the Loop score a Best Original Screenplay nomination, though a little sad to see (500) Days of Summer snubbed. The Best Original Score category got a little wacky too, with longshots like the scores for Fantastic Mr. Fox and Sherlock Holmes sneaking in-- both excellent choices, of course. For more commentary and the 10 best things (and 5 worst) about these nominations, click here. You can also check out the full list of nominees below. 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 DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds Lee Daniels, Precious Jason Reitman, 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 ACTRESS Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, The Last Station Carey Mulligan, An Education Gabourey Sidibe, Precious Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia 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 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 ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker Quentino Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman, The Messenger Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man Peter Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy, Up BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Neill Blomkamp & 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 BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Ajami, Israel El Secretro de sus Ojo, Argentina The Milk of Sorrow, Peru Un Prophete, France The White Ribbon, Germany BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Coraline Fantastic Mr. Fox Princess and the Frog The Secrets of Kells Up And now for the below-the-line ones not included on the TV broadcast (from Oscars.org). ART DIRECTION “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray CINEMATOGRAPHY "Avatar” Mauro Fiore “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Bruno Delbonnel “The Hurt Locker” Barry Ackroyd “Inglourious Basterds” Robert Richardson “The White Ribbon” Christian Berger COSTUME DESIGN “Bright Star” Janet Patterson “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme “Nine” Colleen Atwood “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell DOCUMENTARY FEATURE “Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller "The Cove” Nominees to be determined “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa DOCUMENTARY SHORT “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett “Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra FILM EDITING “Avatar” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron “District 9” Julian Clarke “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis “Inglourious Basterds” Sally Menke “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz MAKEUP “Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano "Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore ORIGINAL SCORE “Avatar” James Horner “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer “Up” Michael Giacchino ORIGINAL SONG “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 “Take It All” from “Nine” 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 ANIMATED SHORT “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert “Granny O’Grimm’s 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 LIVE ACTION SHORT “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström “Kavi” Gregg Helvey “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson SOUND EDITING “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 SOUND MIXING “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 VISUAL EFFECTS “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 |