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James Cameron's Avatar continues its conquest of the world, as the Oscar nominations are announced...

Published on Feb 2, 2010

Ahead of the ceremony itself on March 7th (hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, no less), Anne Hathaway had the job of reading out the 2010 Oscar nominations. Which she did. And here they are...

Best Supporting Actress

Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Mo'Nique (Precious)

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (Nine)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Actress

Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sibide (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julia & Julia)

Best Actor

Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Simple Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)

Best Director

James Cameron (Avatar)
Kathyrn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Lee Daniels (Precious)
Jason Reitman (Up In The Air)

Best Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up

Best Adapted Screenplay

District 9
An Education
In The Loop
Precious
Up In The Air

Best Foreign Language Feature

Ajami
El Secreto De Sus Ojos
The Milk Of Sorrow
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon

Best Animation

Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess & The Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Best Picture

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

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 (Wallace & Gromit)

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

Make Up

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Film Editing

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

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

 
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Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By gillthezombieboy 1 February 2, 2010 02:01:50 PM

"The Blind Side" and "Avatar" for best picture? Come on, Oscar. Looks like their idea to have 10 best picture nominees has proven its worth. AND NO MENTION OF "MOON"! The Academy knows nothing.

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By GoldbergV 1 February 2, 2010 02:07:55 PM

I don't get all the love for Up In The Air, don't get me wrong, its a 'good' movie, but not Oscar good. The performances are good, especially Vera Famiga who deserves her nod, but Anna Kendrick too?! She's hardly in it, and her role consists of stern-faced stern-faced breakdown drunk stern-faced again. It seems Hollywood has gone to town on this film just because it is ACTUALLY ABOUT SOMETHING (the shock!!) but the truth is its not really that good.

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By TheTeacher 1 February 2, 2010 02:19:56 PM

District 9 should win best picture as it was the one film last year that blew me away... that is just wishful thinking, I guess... But as long as Pocahontas in Space doesn't get "best picture", I'm fine with it

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By lillibetlovesyou 1 February 2, 2010 02:34:48 PM

District 9 was amazing. But there have been a lot of good films that don't seem to be getting love. It's like a cluster F*** for certain films. Same. Every. Year

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By p.corrigan12@gmail.com 1 February 2, 2010 03:03:00 PM

Michael Giacchino for the best score Oscar. Whoooo!!!!

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By benheck 1 February 2, 2010 04:15:23 PM

I didn't see every film on the list, but UP deserves a lot of this praise. As does Giacchino's score - I can still REMEMBER it, unlike 90% of films. Hopefully "Avatar" and "Blind Side" best picture noms are to keep the public watching til the end, and then they'll wise up and give it to a deserving film. Bigelow will get best director I'm sure, if only because it will make history. History should happen, not be forced, but if it keeps one more statue from "Dances with Wolves in Space" I'm all for it.

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By Kavorka 1 February 2, 2010 05:12:00 PM

I'd choose Tarantino for best director, seriously, almost everyone in Basterds is at the top of their game. Except for Eli Roth and Mike Meyers(I hate that guy, luckily he was only in it for 5 minutes)

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By dave1159 1 February 2, 2010 06:52:05 PM

It is fantastic to see District 9 on the list, but it does kind of feel that wuth that and Avatar that they were NEVER gonna go for Star Trek, which is really in many ways a better film than either of those two, but wasn't as credible as one or sucessful as the other... I did love Avatar, but would sooooo like UP to be suprise winner in this catagory...

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By PandaJazz 1 February 2, 2010 08:31:21 PM

Moon, Moon, Moon, Moon. That's all I have to say.

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By FrenkyA9 1 February 3, 2010 01:37:28 AM

"Anne Hathaway had the job of reading out the 2010 Oscar nominations. Which she did." Actually, she read only half the list. Standing next to her was Academy President Tom Sherak, who read the other half. Ever since Tim Robbins was robbed of an Oscar by that blind OTT Pacino (Whooaaa!), I withhold all hope and place no more bets.

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By cerveloguy 1 February 3, 2010 07:04:15 AM

I saw Moon last week and agree that this should have been nominated for several awards (not best actor though, yet the same actor could have been nominated as best suporting actor at the same time:p I would feel more comfortable with the makers of Moon doing the Alien prequel instead of Ridley Scott, never thought I would say that, but I think Moon's use of real sets and craftsmnaship over CGI was a throwbck to classic scifi that we basically prefer.

Maggie Gyllenhaal did NOT deserve nomination
Posted By Theinsider 1 February 3, 2010 03:10:24 PM

As usual, the Academy totally screwed up. Maggie Gyllenhaal was totally miscast for the role of Jean Caddock and was the weakest link in the movie. Diane Kruger or Melanie Laurent should have been nominated but (of course the Academies screwed up again). They didn’t make clear whether Diane Kruger was up for best actress or best supporting actress. Same thing with Melanie Laurent – it wasn’t clear whether she was up for best actress or best supporting actress. So fans of Inglorious Bastards got confused – some voters voted for Kruger in best and others in supporting. Same with Laurent, which resulted in diluting the votes for both. And Julianne Moore was so much better than Maggie Gyllenhaal. M Gyllenhaal was sooo miscast for the role of Jean Caddock and worse created a character that didn’t mesh with the movie. Maggie Gyllenhaal is notorious for being a difficult diva on set. She fought continuously with Laurie Collier for “creative control” over the character of Sherry. She refused to take direction from Laurie who incidentally wrote and created the character Sherry. Plus, the only reason that Maggie got hired for the role was because Naomi Forner (Maggie Gyllenhaal’s mom) mentored Laurie at the Sundance Lab, and Laurie hired Maggie out of gratitude. Maggie was so insufferable – every time she threw a tantrum, production came to a halt and she nearly derailed the entire movie. We were on a very tight budget/schedule. Everyone was working on scale. A few non-SAG actors were being paid far less. Some of us did it for the money. Others because they liked Laurie's script and believed in her vision. But because of Maggie's tantrums, there were so many times when we didn't we would finish shooting on time and on budget. As a PA, this was by far the most stressful shoot I've been on. Same with Mona Lisa Smile – she fought with the other actresses and the director. Same with Agent Provacateur – she was such am insufferable diva during the shoot that Agent Provacateur fired immediately after the shoot. And of course, Maggie spun it like she quit because the ads were sexually exploitative. Anyway – coming back to Crazy Heart. Maggie expressly stated in an interview that when she started shooting Crazy, she expected to fight with Scott Cooper but to her “surprise,” Scott Cooper let her do whatever she wanted. So she played Jean Craddock like every role she plays – vulnerable but tough, which was so wrong for this movie. Why would a young smart (albeit ugly) reporter fall instantly in love with a fat drunk has-been? Many critics have pointed out the odd chemistry between Bridges and Maggie. Many have said that this is the weakest link in the movie. If Maggie had played Jean as a vulnerable and needy woman (especially one needy for the love of a man), then the character and the romance would have made sense despite the age difference.

Re: 2010 Oscar nominations
Posted By JonTheGod 1 February 4, 2010 05:20:55 PM

I think this just shows that 2009 was NOT a good year for cinema.
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