82nd Academy Awards Nominees Are Officially Announced
The complete list of nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards, the most prestigious award in Hollywood, have been announced today (via Oscars.com). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the nominees this morning live from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. No need to spend any more time introducing this, let’s just get right down to it! This is the first year that 10 movies are nominated for Best Picture (since 1943) and the 10 they chose are exciting, including Pixar’s Up and District 9! But there are more surprises hidden within, so without further ado, take a look at the full list of nominees below.
The 82nd Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 7th at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with a live telecast airing on ABC starting at 8PM (EST) / 5PM (PST). Read on for the full list of 2010 nominees.
PICTURE:
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
DIRECTOR:
James Cameron – Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
ACTOR:
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up in the Air
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker
ACTRESS:
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
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:
Penélope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Mark Boal – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman – The Messenger
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – A Serious Man
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter – Up
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: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner – Up in the Air
ANIMATED FEATURE:
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophète (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)
ART DIRECTION:
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Mauro Fiore – Avatar
Bruno Delbonnel – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Barry Ackroyd – The Hurt Locker
Robert Richardson – Inglourious Basterds
Christian Berger – The White Ribbon
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
ANIMATED SHORT:
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:
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
VISUAL EFFECTS:
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek
COSTUME DESIGN:
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria
MAKEUP:
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria
FILM EDITING:
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
SOUND MIXING:
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
SOUND EDITING:
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up
ORIGINAL SCORE:
James Horner – Avatar
Alexandre Desplat – Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders – The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer – Sherlock Holmes
Michael Giacchino – Up
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” from Crazy Heart
I’ve got to say, I’m quite satisfied with this year’s nominees, at least more than the Golden Globes. But I do think there are some big noms missing, like Shane Acker’s 9 and Sam Rockwell for Moon. However, I’m still excited to see who ends up winning on March 7th. Are you satisfied with the 2010 Oscar nominees?
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It’s a popularity contest most of the time anyway. I mean Avatar is nominated for 9 different awards? (I still can’t get over Unobtainium). For Editing where is (500) Days of Summer or Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, they used the editing to take the movies up and beyond. Definitely Rockwell for Best Actor. I’m saddened to see no love for The Brothers Bloom either. And Watchmen for some visual award, that movie did a lot of things right and especially art direction. Cool to see an animated feature even nominated for best picture and glad to see District 9 getting attention especially since it was more original and interesting than Avatar.
District 9 getting some respect, love it! 2nd fav movie right after avatar this past year
So glad District 9 got some love. Alas….it’s only real shot is screenplay.
Where is (500) Days of Summer for anything!??!?!? Moon once again gets zero credit.
BEST FILM district 9 (haven’t seen avatar,must be the only person who hasn’t.)BEST DIRECTOR quentin tarantino(but cameron will get it.)BEST ACTOR anyone of them haven’t seen any of them films.BEST ACTRESS same as previous comment.SURPPORTING ACTOR chris waltz.SURPPORTING ACTRESS same comment as actor & actress.ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY inglorious basterds.ADAPTED SCREENPLAY district 9 ANIMATED FEATURE coraline.FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM haven’t seen any of them(where is the nomination for let the right one in.)ART DIRECTION avatar.CINEMATOGRAPHY avatar or inglorious basterds.DOCUMENTRY the cove.SHORT DOCUMENTRY china’s unatural disaster.ANIMATED SHORT not seen any of these.LIVE ACTION SHORT same as last comment.VISUAL EFFECTS any of these they’re all fucking great.COSTUME DESIGN the imaginarium of doctor parnassus. MAKE UP star trek.FILM EDITING district 9.SOUND MIXING avatar,star trek or transformers 2(all very good in the sound department.)SOUND EDITING avatar or star trek.ORIGINAL SCORE avatar.ORIGINAL SONG can’t comment haven’t heard any of them.
Christoph Waltz has to win – when you steal the show like he did, you deserve it. It’ll be fun to see how his career ascends. (Did I hear Green Hornet?)
Jeff Bridges seems to be cleaning up with the CrazyHeart performance – I’m not a big fan of the Country music ..or the other kind – Western. Which means it’ll stay off my personal radar, but apparently it’s good, so we can expect he’ll pick that one up.
Avatar is a SuperMegaBlockbuster, I loved it, but the story was predictable and weak – the visuals were the thing here. Cameron does deserve recognition, to me the shame is Kathryn Bigelow will lose and it’s unfair – there is no second place. If I had my say, Bigelow would get the Oscar and Cameron can have a nice day. He’s got 2Billion dollars to spend, let Hurt Locker have the damn award!
Mr Tarantino – we the people love you. Yet, methinks the Academy may snub you. Thats what you get for speaking your mind and making rot that people love to watch. You started indie – apparently your still indie. Damn, I hate the way that is, but it is… This guy is a star maker and a star rejuvenator, he makes things happen at such a fundamental level, I think he’s destined for one of those lifetime acheivements at age 77. I wish I was giving awards, I’d make stuff up just to give to Quentin.
That’s all I got.
“the white ribbon” has vanished from the list of nominees in the “foreign language” category. does anyone know what’s up with that?
I know, but to even mention it was fanatical
ha ha ha avatar didn’t get nominated for writing
#15 I partly agree with you. Art Direction I can sort of see because it’s not a huge stretch, though some of the concepts and plant life on Pandora were very similar to that in The Dark Crystal. Just done with CGI. Pop in a DVD of this movie and you’ll understand. Even the concept that the main female character can communicate with all living things is similar. But regarding Cinematography you’re so right. Cinematography of what, a blue or green screen!!! Cinematography of CGI?! I do think that visually, the CGI and special effects crew should win some of the awards for Avatar, but definitely not Cinematography.
#17 – Writing and acting?…seriously?…take off the 3-D goggles. The show was fun but the writing was laughable (laughing at not with) and the acting was serviceable at best.
#4
I full heartily agree with you. I know it would have been a long shot for Jackie Earle Haley to be nominated for for best actor or supporting and Snyder isn’t getting a directors nod for quite some time. But the set pieces and costumes and the visual effects where top notch above other films and it’s sad that they didn’t get recognized for any of their work. And not just the Oscars but in all the award shows. I love Watchmen and have it at my #1 list of 2009.
This is Defiantly Avatar year here’s my predictions for the Oscars
Best film
Avatar, The hurt locker, Inglorious Bastard’s
Best Director
James Cameron, Kathleen Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino
Best Actress
Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
Best Actor
Jeff Bridges
Crazy Hart
Best supporting Actor
Woody Haroldson for the messenger, I would have like to have seen him up for Zombieland.
Best supporting Actress
Mo Nique for Precious
Best Foreign film
Un Prophete
Best music score
James Horner
Avatar
Best SFX
Avatar
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Burma VJ
First norwegian produced docu nominated since Kon-Tiki(1950)
Abit odd that Watchmen got nothing? Nothing on editing, cinematography, or adapted screenplay???
#15 – Why? If anything, those were the best parts of Avatar, or at leas the parts that unquestionably deserved Oscar nominations. But it didn’t get any noms for acting or writing unfortunately.
El Secreto de sus Ojos will win the foreign language award!
Avatar being nominated for art direction and cinematography makes me sad…
“This is the first year that 10 movies are nominated for Best Picture…”
Quick history lesson. The last time 10 films were nominated for Best Picture was 1943.
Looks like Avatar and The Hurt Locker will take home the awards. Each of them have 9 nominations and in a category where is absent one of them, the award would go to the other (when both of them are in the same category it will be a hell of a decision). Inglourious Basterds is the 3rd with 8 nominations (that’s very close) and it will win where both Avatar and The Hurt Locker are absent. These are not rules, they’re just speculations and I know I’m not right in every aspect, but I’m not too far.
I hope The Hurt Locker wins most of them. Great film.
If Katheryn and hurt locker don’t win every award over avatar there are big problems with the world.