2010 Oscar Nominations

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From one award to another, the Academy Award nominations have now been announced:

BEST PICTURE:
* Avatar
* The Blind Side
* District 9
* An Education
* The Hurt Locker
* Inglourious Basterds
* Precious
* A Serious Man
* Up (the second animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture)
* Up in the Air

DIRECTING:
* James Cameron (Avatar)
* Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
* Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
* Lee Daniels (Precious)
* Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
* Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
* George Clooney (Up in the Air)
* Colin Firth (A Single Man)
* Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
* Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
* Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
* Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
* Carey Mulligan (An Education)
* Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
* Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
* Matt Damon (Invictus)
* Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
* Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
* Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
* Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
* Penelope Cruz (Nine)
* Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
* Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
* Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
* Mo'Nique (Precious)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
* District 9 (Written by Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell)
* An Education (Screenplay by Nick Hornby)
* In the Loop (Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)
* Precious (Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher)
* Up in the Air (Screenplay by Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
* The Hurt Locker (Written by Mark Boal)
* Inglourious Basterds (Written by Quentin Tarantino)
* The Messenger (Written by Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman)
* A Serious Man (Written by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
* Up (Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter. Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
* Ajami (Israel)
* El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
* The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
* Un Prophete (France)
* The White Ribbon (Germany)

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
* Coraline
* Fantastic Mr. Fox
* The Princess and the Frog
* The Secrets of Kells
* Up

ART DIRECTION:
* Avatar (Art Direction: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg. Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair)
* The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Art Direction: Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro. Set Decoration: Caroline Smith)
* Nine (Art Direction: John Myhre. Set Direction: Gordon Sim)
* Sherlock Holmes (Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood. Set Direction: Katie Spencer)
* The Young Victoria (Art Direction: Patrice Vermette. Set Direction: 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
* The Cove
* Food, Inc.
* The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the * Pentagon Papers
* Which Way Home

FILM EDITING:
* Avatar (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron)
* District 9 (Julian Clarke)
* The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski, Chris Innis)
* Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
* Precious (Joe Klotz)

MAKEUP:
* Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano)
* Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow)
* The Young Victoria (Jon Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore)

ORIGINAL SCORE:
* Avatar (James Horner)
* Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
* The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders)
* Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
* Up (Michael Giacchino)

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

SOUND MIXING:
* Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson)
* The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett)
* Inglourious Basterds (Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano)
* Star Trek (Anna Behlmer, Andy Lenson, Peter J. Devlin)
* Transformers: Revenger of the Fallen (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson)

SOUND EDITING:
* Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
* The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson)
* Inglourious Basterds (Wylie Stateman)
* Star Trek (Mark Stroeckinger, Alan Rankin)
* Up (Michael Silvers, Tom Myers)

VISUAL EFFECTS:
* Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones)
* District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken)
* Star Trek (Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton)

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

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
* French Roast
* Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
* The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
* Logorama
* A Matter of Loaf and Death

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
* The Door
* Instead of Abracadabra
* Kavi
* Miracle Fish
* The New Tenants

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