2010 Academy Award Nominations Announced

The 2010 Academy Award nominations have just been announced and are of no surprise to anybody whatsoever. Avatar is up for a string of nominations, including Best Director, though for some reason District 9 misses out on that nomination and a few others that I think it really deserves.

Have a look at the list and let us know what you think! What’s missing? Who is undeserving?

Best Picture

Avatar

The Blind Side

District 9

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious 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 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 – Inglorious 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 Director

James Cameron – Avatar

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Quentin Tarantino – Inglorious Basterds

Lee Daniels – Precious

Jason Reitman – Up in the Air

Adapted Screenplay

District 9

An Education

In the Loop

Precious

Up in the Air

Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

The Messenger

A Serious Man

Up



Best Animated Feature Film


Coraline

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Princess and the Frog

The Secret of Kells

Up

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

Inglorious Basterds

The White Ribbon

Costume Design

Bright Star

Coco Avant Chanel

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

The Young Victoria



Documentary Feature


Burma VJ

The Cove

Food, Inc.

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Which Way Home

Editing

Avatar

District 9

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

Precious

Foreign Language Film

Ajami

El Secreto de Sus Ojos

The Milk of Sorrow

Un Prophéte

The White Ribbon

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’ – Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)

‘Down in New Orleans’ – Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)

‘Loin de Paname’ – Frrank Thomas and Reinhardt Wagner (Paris 36)

‘Take It All’ – Maury Yeston (Nine)

‘The Weary Kind’ – T Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham (Crazy Heart)

Sound Editing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

Star Trek

Up

Sound Mixing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglorious Basterds

Star Trek

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Visual Effects

Avatar

District 9

Star Trek

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