Best 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

Best Actor In A Supporting Role

Matt Damon - Invictus
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
Cristoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds


Best 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 & Julia

Best 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

Best Director

James Cameron - Avatar
Kathryn 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 Film

Ajami
El Secreto De Sus Ojos
La Teta Asus Tada
A Prophet
The White Ribbon

Best Animated Film

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

Best Picture

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

Best Cinematography

Avatar
The White Ribbon
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds

Best Editing

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Art Direction

Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Costume Design

Bright Star
Coco avant Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Best Makeup

Il divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Best Original Score

Avatar - James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
Up - Michael Giacchino

Best Original Song

Crazy Heart - "The Weary Kind"
Faubourg 36 - "Loin de Paname"
Nine - "Take It All"
The Princess and the Frog - "Down in New Orleans"
The Princess and the Frog - "Almost There"

Best Sound Mixing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Sound Editing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Best Visual Effects

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Best Documentary, Features

Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Królik po berlinsku
Music by Prudence

Best Short Film, Animated

French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
La dama y la muerte
Logorama
Wallace and Gromit in 'A Matter of Loaf and Death'

Best Short Film, Live Action

The Door
Istället för abrakadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

2/2/2010 12:21:01 PM

Waltz is the only slam dunk that I see.

2/2/2010 12:25:11 PM

Avatar and Blind Side for Best Picture = lol

2/2/2010 12:26:56 PM

Moon should've gotten a makeup nod.
Jarvis Cocker should've gotten a song nod.

2/2/2010 1:26:19 PM

Quote :

"Best 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"

Umm... you forgot Viggo Mortenson and Sam Rockwell.

Quote :

"Best Picture Avatar The Blind Side District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air"

THE BLIND SIDE?! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? Also, if Avatar wins I will set myself on fire in front of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in protest.

My personal vote is for "The Hurt Locker," but they're going to pick "Up."









Fuck the Academy.

2/2/2010 1:31:43 PM

I highly highly doubt Up wins best picture.

It's only nominated due to the expansion(although I guess you could say that for five of these )

2/2/2010 1:33:01 PM

I'm just glad there are finally two decent films in the animated category for once.

2/2/2010 1:38:30 PM

duble post

[Edited on February 2, 2010 at 2:11 PM. Reason : .]

2/2/2010 2:07:39 PM

Up was superb, but I'd hate for "Best Picture" to go to an animated film; it doesn't help to futher any acting careers.

2/2/2010 2:09:02 PM

I don't think "furthering acting careers" is the goal of the academy necessarily. The award should be for the best film of the year, if it happens to be animated, so be it.

That being said, Up is not the best pic of the year. (IMHO, it isn't even the best animated film of the year as that should go to Fantastic Mr. Fox.)

2/2/2010 3:04:02 PM

Too bad it's going to win, lol.

2/2/2010 3:30:34 PM

The Hurt Locker is by far the best out of the best picture category that I've seen (I haven't seen An education and Precious). If Avatar wins anything other than best visual effects I will be disappointed.

2/2/2010 8:27:45 PM

Why the shit do you think Up is going to win?

It has easily the best 20 minute sequence of any Pixar film, but the last 30 minutes or so are pretty weak and silly comparatively. No field expansion=no Up nomination.

[Edited on February 2, 2010 at 10:56 PM. Reason : .]

2/2/2010 10:54:58 PM

yeah, no way up wins best picture. thats just dumb. its a lock for animated, though

2/3/2010 1:05:38 AM

NO SAM ROCKWELL?

NO CREDIBILITY.

NO MELANIE LAURENT?

NO CREDIBILITY.

2/3/2010 6:07:58 AM

Sherlock Holmes was awful. Can we just give every award to the hang over and the cast of.

2/3/2010 6:10:54 AM

i'm surprised nine isn't up for best picture. i haven't seen it, but it seems like one of those DDL movies that people would fawn over

2/3/2010 8:57:28 AM

To anyone doubting UP winning, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th_Academy_Awards

2/3/2010 9:00:05 AM

^^Nine's actually gotten pretty bad reviews. I'm still gonna see it though. I like musicals for the most part

While I'm glad to see Up nominated for best picture, it doesn't make up for Wall-E not being on there last year...which is what I feel they're going for. To me it's like LOTR RotK winning best picture, "Oh! It's the last one! Better give it an award" *shrug* And now having seen Fantastic Mr Fox, that to me is best animated film and not Up; although I do love Up.

I have Hurt Locker right now from Netflix so I'm gonna reserve til I watch that. I never got to see Precious :/

The only two that I'm all "oooooh please win or I may riot" over is Best Art Direction for Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus and Best Supporting Actor to Christoph Waltz

2/3/2010 9:26:31 AM

Hurt locker was very disappointing IMO, shouldn't be in the discussion.

Not that these awards mean jack shit anyways

2/3/2010 9:29:49 AM

why the heck is hurt locker and UP nominated

2/3/2010 11:10:21 PM

Quote :

"To anyone doubting UP winning, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th_Academy_Awards"

I'm not sure what I'm missing.

This is the second animated film ever nominated for best picture, and that is likely only due to the expansion to ten.

If your link is saying that the best movie doesn't always win because Crash is a shit movie then fine, I agree.

2/3/2010 11:21:06 PM

That is what I was saying

2/4/2010 8:27:39 AM

Bump

3/7/2010 7:04:02 PM

too many choices!

3/7/2010 7:05:51 PM

Quote :

"The Hurt Locker is by far the best out of the best picture category that I've seen"

Agreed. Nothing else is really even close.

3/7/2010 7:14:25 PM

quick! somebody get Seacrest a ladder

3/7/2010 7:17:52 PM

is kathy ireland pregnant?

3/7/2010 8:15:44 PM

You would think Woody Harrelson could have gotten a hotter bitch, also Sandy Bullock is wearing way too much makeup

3/7/2010 8:40:18 PM

Definitely deserved to win this, Academy is 1 for 1 so far

3/7/2010 8:49:01 PM

no surprise at all

3/7/2010 8:50:48 PM

Up wins animated feature, 2 for 2

3/7/2010 8:59:08 PM

^ Absolutely agree; these two were slam dunks

3/7/2010 9:00:13 PM

fantastic mr. fox was far superior to up as a complete film

3/7/2010 9:12:09 PM

I was trying to figure out why everything was reruns today, then I remembered that this was on.

3/7/2010 9:24:19 PM

John Hughes memorial made me

3/7/2010 9:27:37 PM

i'm sad wallace and grommit didn't win

3/7/2010 9:33:11 PM

the dude!

3/7/2010 11:33:27 PM

Quote :

"Moon should've gotten a makeup nod."

Makeup?

Moon should have gotten a nod for something, but I'm not sure makeup works for it.

Unless you're just thinking of makeup as the de facto "Sci Fi Category" (like how Costuming seems to be the de facto "historical drama category").

3/7/2010 11:42:54 PM

Avatar won the 3 awards it deserved and not a one more.

3/7/2010 11:59:41 PM

Quote :

"Makeup? Moon should have gotten a nod for something, but I'm not sure makeup works for it. Unless you're just thinking of makeup as the de facto "Sci Fi Category" (like how Costuming seems to be the de facto "historical drama category")."

Dude, Sam Rockwell looked like a CORPSE toward the end of that movie, they pulled it off really well and it was kind of subtle but incredibly effective.



anyway, this year's Oscar show was GREAT.

[Edited on March 8, 2010 at 12:25 AM. Reason : .]

3/8/2010 12:23:51 AM

Roommates and I were cheering for the last two awards. Hurt Locker was a great movie, no two ways about it.

I could have gone for Up In The Air as well, but very little otherwise.

3/8/2010 2:00:58 AM

Quote :

"My personal vote is for "The Hurt Locker,""

Well, finally the Academy doesn't disappoint.

3/8/2010 8:39:55 AM

I don't see what the big deal about Hurt Locker was. It was decent, but nothing exceptional IMO. It and Avatar didn't really belong in the discussion as far as best picture.

3/8/2010 9:01:55 AM

I enjoyed The Hurt Locker so I can't complain with the win, but I definitely have to admit that back when I watched it I didn't have any inkling it would be a contender to win best picture for the year

3/8/2010 9:10:32 AM

I enjoyed Hurt Locker. Def deserved best screenplay.

Best Director? I'm on-board with that.

..but Best Picture? Sorry, but thats got to be some kind of appeasement for feminism, screenwriting purists, and small-filmmaking. The Hurt Locker is a forgettable film that wouldn't have had any appreciable impact on the industry, beyond its notation for first female Best Picture/Director. Pretty sure it would have faded completely from public memory within years.

3/8/2010 9:56:59 AM

Quote :

"Well, finally the Academy doesn't disappoint."

So, why did you actually care who won? You would have been disappointed if Hurt Locker didn't receive that shiny statue? Why?

3/8/2010 9:58:57 AM

^^ so it has the best story

and the best direction

but calling it best picture is a farce?

3/8/2010 10:00:23 AM

I don't consider writing and direction to be so far above other qualities like acting, art depth, effects and cinematography that a picture should win on the merits of those two alone.

3/8/2010 11:06:57 AM

what the hell is "art depth?"

3/8/2010 11:28:38 AM