The nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were announced today. Leading the pack with nine Oscar nods each were Avatar and The Hurt Locker, with Inglourious Basterds right behind with eight. All three films are among the contenders for Best picture, a category that was expanded to ten nominees this year. Read on for the complete list. Once you’ve perused it, hit the comments and give us your predictions for who SHOULD win and who WILL win.
Best picture
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
“Up in the Air”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Up”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9”
“An Education”
“A Serious Man”
Actor
George Clooney, “Up in the Air”
Jeff Bridges, “Crazy Heart”
Colin Firth, “A Single Man”
Morgan Freeman, “Invictus”
Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”
Actress
Meryl Streep, “Julie & Julia”
Sandra Bullock, “The Blind Side”
Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Helen Mirren, “The Last Station”
Carey Mulligan, “An Education”
Supporting actor
Matt Damon, “Invictus”
Woody Harrelson, “The Messenger”
Christopher Plummer, “The Last Station”
Stanley Tucci, “The Lovely Bones”
Christoph Waltz, “Inglourious Basterds”
Supporting actress
Vera Farmiga, “Up in the Air”
Mo’Nique, “Precious”
Anna Kendrick, “Up in the Air”
Penelope Cruz, “Nine”
Maggie Gyllenhaal, “Crazy Heart”
Director
Quentin Tarantino, “Inglourious Basterds”
Kathryn Bigelow, “The Hurt Locker”
James Cameron, “Avatar”
Lee Daniels, “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Jason Reitman, “Up in the Air”
Animated feature
“Up”
“Coraline”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Princess and the Frog”
“The Secret of Kells”
Original screenplay
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The Messenger”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
Adapted screenplay
“District 9”
“An Education”
“In the Loop”
“Precious”
“Up in the Air”
Best foreign-language film
“Ajami”
“El Secreto de Sus Ojos”
“The Milk of Sorrow”
“Un Prophète”
“The White Ribbon”
Best film editing
“Avatar”
“District 9”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious”
Art direction
“Avatar”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine”
“Sherlock Holmes”
“The Young Victoria”
Cinematography
“Avatar”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“The White Ribbon”
Costume design
“Bright Star”
“Coco Before Chanel”
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus”
“Nine”
“The Young Victoria”
Best documentary feature
“Burma VJ”
“The Cove”
“Food, Inc.”
“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers”
“Which Way Home”
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 à la Berlin”
Makeup
“Il Divo”
“Star Trek”
“The Young Victoria”
Music (original score)
“Avatar”
“Fantastic Mr. Fox”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Sherlock Holmes”
“Up”
Music (original song)
“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog”
“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog”
“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36”
“Take it All” from “Nine”
“The Weary Kind (Theme from “Crazy Heart”) from “Crazy Heart”
Short film, animated
“French Toast”
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty”
“The Lady and the Reaper”
“Logorama”
“A Matter of Loaf and Death”
Short film, live action
“The Door”
“Instead of Abracadabra”
“Kavi”
“Miracle Fish”
“The New Tenants”
Sound editing
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Up”
Sound mixing
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Star Trek”
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”
Visual effects
“Avatar”
“District 9”
“Star Trek”
(via CNN)
Do we need 10 candidates for best picture? I guess it helps those movies sell more tickets.
I’m interested in who is going to win best picture and best director.
Actor/Actress awards have been a little spoiled by previous awards: Jeff Bridges (or maybe George Clooney), Meryl Streep or Sandra Bullock, Christoph Waltz, Mo’Nique. Voters try to surprise with one of these awards but I’m just not excited by these bunch.
I guess another thing to look forward to is the Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker fight. They’ll for total awards and share many categories.
I meant to say: They’ll compete for total awards and share many categories.
I actually saw 7 of the 10 movies nominated for best picture. For sure, Monique will and should win as supporting actress. UP will and should win for animated feature. Though I think Sandra Bullock WILL win as best actress (because it’s her time and she’s as good in Blindside as Julia Roberts was and won for Erin Brocovich movie), I think Meryl Streep SHOULD win as she was unbelievable in portraying Julia Child. Kathryn Bigelow will and should win as director. Only saw 2 of the movies for best and supporting actor so can’t comment. Will go out on the limp, dangling, dangling, and say that District 9 will win best movie–only because I really liked that movie :-)
To think of it now, I can’t see any actor’s performance topping Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Bastards, so I’ll say he should and will win as best supporting actor.