And The Nominees Are.....The Oscars 2010

The 2010 Oscar nominees were announced today by actress Anne Hathaway. The awards show will take place in LA's Hollywood Kodak Centre, on March 7th.

Best Picture

Avatar  (James Cameron and Jon Landau)

The Blind Side 

District 9 (Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham)

An Education (Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey)

The Hurt Locker 

Inglorious Basterds (Lawrence Bender)

Precious (Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness)

A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)

Up (Jonas Rivera)

Up in the Air (Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman)

Actress in a supporting role

Mo'Nique in Precious
Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air
Penélope Cruz in Nine
Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds
Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart

Actor in a supporting role

Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
Christopher Plummer in The Last Station
Matt Damon in Invictus
Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones
Woody Harrelson in The Messengers

Actor in a leading role

Morgan Freeman in Invictus
Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
George Clooney in Up in the Air
Colin Firth in A Single Man
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

Actress in a leading role

Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia 

Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
Helen Mirren in The Last Station
Gabourey Sidibe in Precious
Carey Mulligan in An Education

Animated Feature Film

Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements and John Musker)
Coraline (Henry Selick)
Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson)
Secret of Kells (Tom Moore)

Directing

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

Writing (adapted screenplay)

District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)
An Education (Nick Hornby)
Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche)

Writing (original screenplay)

The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Up (Pete Docter and Bob Petersen)
The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman)

Art Direction

Avatar (Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Art Direction: Dan Hermansen and Denis Schnegg; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith and Shane Vieau)
Nine (Art Direction: Peter Findley, Phil Harvey, Simon Lamont; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim)
Sherlock Holmes (Art Direction: James Foster, Nick Gottschalk, Matthew Gray, Niall Moroney; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer)
The Young Victoria (Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray)

Cinematography

Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bruno Delbonnel)
The Hurt Locker (Barry Ackroyd)
Inglourious Basterds (Robert Richardson)
The White Ribbon (Christian Berger)

Costume Design

 
Bright Star (Janet Patterson)
Coco Before Chanel (Catherine Leterrier)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme)
Nine (Colleen Atwood)
The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)

Documentary (feature)

Burma VJ (Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller)

The Cove (Louie Psihoyos)
Food, Inc (Robert Kenner)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith)
Which Way Home? (Rebecca Cammisa)

Documentary (short subject)

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neil
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher)
The Last Track: Closing of a GM Plant (Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert)
Music by Prudence (Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett)
Rabbit a la Berlin (Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra)

Film Editing

Avatar (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron)
District 9 (Julian Clarke)
The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis)
Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
Precious (Joe Klotz)

Make Up

Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano)

Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow)

The Young Victoria (Jon Henry and Jenny Shircore)

*Please note this is not the full list of nominees*