2010 Oscar Nominations

[frankie_fan]

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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[Cassini90125]

The fact that Star Trek didn't get a nomination for Best Picture is irritating, although not unexpected. In that case, District 9 all the way.

Interesting that Sandra Bullock is up for both an Oscar and a Razzie.

[frankie_fan]

Originally Posted by Cassini90125

Interesting that Sandra Bullock is up for both an Oscar and a Razzie.

She's definitely not the first one to achieve it!

I'm only irritated that Robert Downey Jr and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs didn't get Oscar nominations (here's hoping for the best at the Annies). Especially Robert, since he won a Golden Globe for Sherlock Holmes. But either way, I'm saying Sherlock Holmes for Best Original Score, even though there's a 1:100 chance that Avatar will get it...

...and every other category it's been nominated for.

Oh, and Wallace & Gromit for the win!!

[Pawbah]

I used to intern for one of the producers of The Hurt Locker. Seeing how well that film is doing now, I guess I should've continued interning for him.... big mistake on my part. But at the time Hurt Locker was barely edited together and had problems with flow etc etc.

Sigh.... I really hope Avatar doesn't do well. I dislike that film with great intensity.

[frankie_fan]

Originally Posted by Pawbah

Sigh.... I really hope Avatar doesn't do well. I dislike that film with great intensity.

You and me both! Especially Best Original Score! Seeing as Sherlock Holmes didn't get the Best Actor nomination that I was hoping for, I'm really rooting for Hans Zimmer to win this time!

At least 2012 didn't get any nominations!

[Pawbah]

Never saw 2012, I heard it was bad.

I wish Sherlock Holmes had gotten a few more nominations, I really enjoyed that movie.

[Another Castle]

Originally Posted by frankie_fan

Oh, and Wallace & Gromit for the win!!

I agree, it would be it's fourth Oscar!

Up is great, but it would be a bit of a pity if Coraline would be ignored.

[Medikor]

You know the movie movie I've seen on that list was Transformers. Everything else just didn't interest me. I guess I'm just not that big of a movie viewer.

[frankie_fan]

Originally Posted by Another Castle

Up is great, but it would be a bit of a pity if Coraline would be ignored.

I'm sure I'd get bricked for saying this, but I think The Princess and The Frog would be more deserving of the Oscar, mainly because it would be great to see traditional animation triumph over its other forms of animation. It would show that old school never says die.

[Pawbah]

I'm all for traditional animation and everything, but I honestly don't think The Princess and the Frog was Disney's best work. Guess we'll just see how it goes.