The 2010 Oscar nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards are in and James Cameron’s Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker are the early favorites with nine chances to win a piece.
For the first time since 1943 when Casablanca won, 10 films are vying for the Best Picture prize. Our own Shawn Fitzgerald easily predicted 9 of the 10 with the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man being his only miss (he had picked Star Trek instead). Even with 10 nominees, the race is expected to come down to The Hurt Locker and Avatar.
Sandra Bullock completed the unusual double play by earning a Best Actress nomination for The Blind Side to go along with her Worst Actress Razzie nomination for All About Steve. Thoguh highly unlikely, it would be an amazing feat should she manage to win both.
The complete list of 2010 Oscar nominations are as follows.
Best 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
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: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire)
- 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 (Inglourious 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: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire)
Best 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)
Foreign Language Film
- Ajami Israel
- El Secreto de Sus Ojos Argentina
- The Milk of Sorrow Peru
- Un Prophete France
- The White Ribbon Germany
Adapted Screenplay
- Neill Blomkamp and 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 and Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)
Original Screenplay
- Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
- Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
- Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
- Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
- Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy (Up)
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
- Inglourious Basterds
- The White Ribbon
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
- Avatar (James Horner)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
- The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
- Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)
- Up (Michael Giacchino)
Original Song
- Almost There from The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman)
- Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog (Randy Newman)
- Loin de Paname from Paris 36 (Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas)
- Take It All from Nine (Maury Yeston)
- The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart (Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett)
Costume
- Bright Star
- Coco Before 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
Documentary (short subject)
- 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
Film Editing
- Avatar
- District 9
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Makeup
- Il Divo
- Star Trek
- The Young Victoria
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
Visual Effects
- Avatar
- District 9
- Star Trek
The Academy Awards will be presented March 7 at the Kodak Theatre and be hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.
