OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2010

Best Picture

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Lockers
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
A Serious Man
UP
Up in the Air

Actor Leading Role

Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (The Weinstein Company)
Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Actor In Supporting Role

Matt Damon in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)
Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Actress in leading Role

Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
Helen Mirren in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Actress in Supporting Role

Penélope Cruz in "Nine" (The Weinstein Company)
Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Animated Feature Film

"Coraline" (Focus Features)-Henry Selick
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox)-Wes Anderson
"The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney)-John Musker and Ron Clements
"The Secret of Kells" (GKIDS)-Tomm Moore
"Up" (Walt Disney)-Pete Docter

Art Director

"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)
Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro
Set Decoration: Caroline Smith

"Nine" (The Weinstein Company)
Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gordon Sim

"Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.)
Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

"The Young Victoria" (Apparition)
Art Direction: Patrice Vermette
Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Cinematography

"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)-Mauro Fiore
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"-(Warner Bros.) Bruno Delbonnel
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)-Barry Ackroyd
"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)-Robert Richardson
"The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics)-Christian Berger Costume Design

"Bright Star" (Apparition)-Janet Patterson
"Coco before Chanel" (Sony Pictures Classics)-Catherine Leterrier
"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"-(Sony Pictures Classics) Monique Prudhomme
"Nine" (The Weinstein Company)-Colleen Atwood
"The Young Victoria" (Apparition)-Sandy Powell

Directing

"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)-James Cameron
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)-Kathryn Bigelow
"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)-Quentin Tarantino
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)-Lee Daniels
"Up in the Air"(Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)-Jason Reitman

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

Film Editing

"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)-Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing)-Julian Clarke
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)-Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)-Sally Menke
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)-Joe Klotz

Foreign Language Film

"Ajami"(Kino International) -Israel
"El Secreto de Sus Ojos" (Sony Pictures Classics)- Argentina
"The Milk of Sorrow" - Peru
"Un Prophète" (Sony Pictures Classics) - France
"The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) - Germany Make Up

Il Divo - Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Star Trek - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
The Young Victoria - Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Music (Original Score)

"Avatar" (20th Century Fox)-James Horner
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox)-Alexandre Desplat
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)-Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
"Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.)-Hans Zimmer
"Up" (Walt Disney)-Michael Giacchino

Musinc (Original Song)

"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney)
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

"Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney)
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

"Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" (Sony Pictures Classics)
Music by Reinhardt Wagner
Lyric by Frank Thomas

"Take It All" from "Nine" (The Weinstein Company)
Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston

"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett Short Film (Animated)

"French Roast" - Fabrice O. Joubert
"Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" (Brown Bag Films) - Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
"The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)" - Javier Recio Gracia
"Logorama" (Autour de Minuit) - Nicolas Schmerkin
"A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Aardman Animations) - Nick Park

Short Film (Live Action)

"The Door" (Network Ireland Television) - Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
"Instead of Abracadabra" (The Swedish Film Institute) - Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
"Kavi" - Gregg Helvey
"Miracle Fish" (Premium Films) - Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
"The New Tenants" - Joachim Back and Tivi Ma

Sound Editing

"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) - Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)- Paul N.J. Ottosson
"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) - Wylie Stateman
"Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) - Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
"Up" (Walt Disney) - Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Sound Mixing

"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) - Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) - Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
"Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)-Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount) - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson Visual Effects

"Avatar" (20th Century Fox) - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
"Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

"District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) - Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
"An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) - Screenplay by Nick Hornby
"In the Loop" (IFC Films) - Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) - Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
"Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) - Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Writing (Original Screenplay)
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) - Written by Mark Boal
"Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) - Written by Quentin Tarantino
"The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) - Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
"A Serious Man" (Focus Features) - Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
"Up" (Walt Disney) - Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy