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 DIRECTOR
Kathryn Bigelow
James Cameron
Quentin Tarantino
Lee Daniels
Jason Reitman
BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges
George Clooney
Colin Firth
Morgan Freeman
Jeremy Renner
BEST ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock
Helen Mirren
Carey Mulligan
Gabourey Sidibe
Meryl Streep
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon
Woody Harrelson
Christopher Plummer
Stanley Tucci
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz
Vera Farmiga
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Anna Kendrick
Mo'nique
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Quentino Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman, The Messenger
Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Peter Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy, Up
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche, In The Loop
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious
Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Ajami, Israel
El Secretro de sus Ojo, Argentina
The Milk of Sorrow, Chile
Un Prophete, France
The White Ribbon, Germany
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Princess and the Frog
The Secrets of Kells
Up
ART DIRECTION
“Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
“Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
“Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; 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” Nominees to be determined
“Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
“The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
“Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
“The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
“Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
“Rabbit à 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: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz
MAKEUP
“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
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” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
“Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
“Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
ANIMATED SHORT
“French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert
“Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia
“Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin
“A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park
LIVE ACTION SHORT
“The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
“Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
“Kavi” Gregg Helvey
“Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
“The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
SOUND EDITING
“Avatar” Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
“The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson
“Inglourious Basterds” Wylie Stateman
“Star Trek” Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
“Up” Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
SOUND MIXING
“Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
"The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
“Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
“Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
VISUAL EFFECTS
“Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
“District 9” Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
“Star Trek” Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
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ACPosted:
Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:58 pm
Thanks Fash!
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FashionistaPosted:
Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:13 pm
My Pleasure, AC!
See... the Golden Globes & the Academy Awards are like my Super Bowl
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paxPosted:
Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:33 pm
This is the first time they've ever had 10 nominations for best picture. I like the change, as it allows more people to know about some of the better movies.
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paxPosted:
Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:37 pm
Another interesting tidbit. Kathryn Bigelow would be the first woman to win Best Director. She's nominated along with her former husband James Cameron.
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FashionistaPosted:
Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:03 pm
Oscars could see David vs. Goliath battle
By Todd Leopold, CNNFebruary 3, 2010 10:56 a.m. EST
(CNN) -- "Avatar," watch your back. You too, Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep.
Though Oscar watchers say there were few surprises among the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards, some of the selections indicate a growing respect among Oscar voters for certain films and nominees, making them odds-on favorites (or at least galloping dark horses) when the winners are announced March 7.
Chief among them is "The Blind Side," the film about a homeless African-American teen taken in by an upscale white family. Sandra Bullock's nomination for best actress was expected -- she's already won a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance -- but the film's inclusion among the best picture nominees was not, said longtime Oscar pundit Tom O'Neil, writer for the Los Angeles Times' TheEnvelope.com.
"The only real shockeroo in the nominations was the inclusion of 'The Blind Side' for best picture," he said. "That literally blindsided the pundits, who thought that would go to 'Invictus' or 'The Hangover' or 'Star Trek.' "
The movie shows that the film industry has embraced the film -- which has become the highest-grossing movie with a female lead -- even if the critics' takes were middling, O'Neil added. That embrace also boosts Bullock's chances to take best actress over Streep, who received a record 16th Oscar nomination for "Julie & Julia."
"The only [major-category] contest where we thought there was some suspense was lead actress, with Meryl Streep versus Sandra Bullock. The one argument people made against Bullock winning was that the movie's so lightweight," he said. "Well, sorry, that best picture nomination for 'The Blind Side' changes everything. It now has that validity for Bullock to win."
Film historian Wheeler Winston Dixon, Ryan professor of film studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said he believes that Carey Mulligan, the young actress who gave a star turn in "An Education," also has a shot.
" 'An Education' was a beautiful film, and I think Mulligan has a chance," he said.
O'Neil ranks "The Hurt Locker," with its nine nominations, as the favorite for best picture despite "Avatar's" record-setting box-office tally. Though two science-fiction films -- "Avatar" and "District 9" -- earned best picture nominations, the academy rates the genre poorly, he said.
"No sci-fi movie has ever won, and there's a clear bias against it," he said. "You can hear all over Hollywood, the buzz is all about 'The Hurt Locker.' And Hollywood frames this as a classic David versus Goliath battle, and everyone wants to be on David's side. ... Also, this is the Iraqi war movie you can get behind because it doesn't make a political statement. It's safe."
Dixon said he agrees on artistic grounds. He ranked "The Hurt Locker" as his best American film of 2009.
" 'Avatar' is basically eye candy. ... 'The Hurt Locker,' which did not get that much distribution and didn't make that much money, is probably the best film [director Kathryn Bigelow] ever made. She really can nail the adrenaline high that people are looking for, and I, what I liked the most about it, is its 'never apologize, never explain' format."
Bigelow also won the Directors Guild trophy -- a strong indicator for both best director and best picture at the Oscars.
"Hurt Locker" star Jeremy Renner's nomination as best actor -- a mild surprise, said O'Neil -- could make him a dark horse in a category the well-liked Bridges, a previous nominee, is expected to win easily.
Still, Bridges remains the favorite, O'Neil said.
"Voters love the big bombastic performances ... and in 'Crazy Heart' Jeff Bridges just stumbles around drunk for two hours. They love that," he said.
The nominations also indicate that the academy may be broadening its sights. Besides the acknowledgement of science fiction in the best picture race, there are also some fresh faces among the directing nominees: "Hurt Locker's" Bigelow is the fourth woman to be nominated for best director, and "Precious' " Lee Daniels is the second African-American nominated for best director and first to have directed a best picture nominee.
"The Academy Awards are really a huge advertisement for Hollywood and for Hollywood's global dominance," Dixon observed. "It's this huge ad and what they want to do is bring as many people to the table as possible, so nominating Lee Daniels for 'Precious' [helps]. But Spike Lee should have been nominated years ago."
Still, some biases die hard, O'Neil said. The academy has rarely cottoned to comedy, and the exclusion of "The Hangover" continues the trend. ("A Serious Man," the Coen brothers film up for the top award, may be comedic, but it's also extremely dark -- not the stuff of $200 million box-office winners. And while "Up" is also comedic, most people associate it with its animated siblings.)
Dixon finds the best picture race the most intriguing. Given the David-Goliath struggle O'Neil described, he said the battle could indicate whether the industry favors money or art -- at least in 2009.
"We have a real battle here between content and cash," he said. "I think a real aesthetic battle is being waged here. The industry is thrilled that Cameron's incredibly expensive film has paid off. ... 'Hurt Locker' is no risk financially, but it's a risk in terms of its material. So will Hollywood go for the 'feel-good' film, or will they go for the film with the substance?"
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ArubaloverPosted:
Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:15 am
After seeing the previews I couldn't wait to see An Education. I drove to a theater in Houston(about 30 miles away) to see it but was sort of disappointed. It wasn't nearly as good as I was hoping it would be.
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FashionistaPosted:
Wed Mar 03, 2010 4:26 pm
Kathryn Bigelow
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paxPosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:22 pm
Thanks fashionista. I like her movies. She directed Point Break, a cool movie about surfers who rob banks.
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paxPosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:22 pm
Who else is watching the Oscars Sunday night? I am!
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paxPosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:35 pm
I love the movie clips.
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin should be very good as hosts, too.
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SavannahStarPosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:20 pm
pax wrote:
Who else is watching the Oscars Sunday night? I am!
I think I will be.
I am hoping Gabourey Sidibe wins over Sandra Bullock. Not that I've seen either movie. I just never could stand Sandra Bullock. And all I've read about "Precious" and Gabourey is just so awesome. I like Meryl Streep though too. But I'd like to see someone new win. I'd like to see an UNglamorous fat black woman win!!!!!!!!!!!!
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resignedPosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 6:58 pm
SavannahStar wrote:
I think I will be.
I am hoping Gabourey Sidibe wins over Sandra Bullock. Not that I've seen either movie. I just never could stand Sandra Bullock. And all I've read about "Precious" and Gabourey is just so awesome. I like Meryl Streep though too. But I'd like to see someone new win. I'd like to see an UNglamorous fat black woman win!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mo'nique WILL win for "Precious" - bet the house.
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SavannahStarPosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 7:42 pm
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Mo'nique WILL win for "Precious" - bet the house.
So I hear.
I was reading about her online today. She has an interview with Bawawawa. She has hairy legs, doesn't believe in shaving them, and has an open marriage. (Mo'nique, not Bawawawa. Well, who knows about Bawawawa.)
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Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:05 pm
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jacquelinePosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:17 pm
Fashionista wrote:
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Oh so gross and to wear a dress that shows the grossness, yuck.
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FashionistaPosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:42 pm
jacqueline wrote:
Oh so gross and to wear a dress that shows the grossness, yuck.
Actually....the gown was long
BUT
She held her gown up to "show her hairy legs off"
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jacquelinePosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:47 pm
Fashionista wrote:
Actually....the gown was long
BUT
She held her gown up to "show her hairy legs off"
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Thanks Fashionista as if anyone wanted to see her hairy legs I would not doubt that she shaves under her armpits either!
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FashionistaPosted:
Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:25 pm
Here's the trailer for The Secret of Kells, a nominee. It was done cel by cel, the old fashioned way:
Nominated for Best Animated Film. In the Middle Ages, as Vikings threaten to attack the abbey where 12-year-old scholar Brendan lives and studies, a visitor arrives with an unfinished book that contains the power to defeat evil. As Brendan searches for the book's missing elements, guided through a wild enchanted forest by a fairy girl, the story is archetypal if at times too heady for its own good. The purposefully old-fashioned artwork, reminiscent of stained-glass figures, draws you in, though, as does the lovely Celtic music.
Courtesy of PerryPeabody
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yankee-in-francePosted:
Sat Mar 06, 2010 3:03 pm
Fashionista wrote:
Actually....the gown was long
BUT
She held her gown up to "show her hairy legs off"
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.. she isn't kidding ... those are hairy legs. Scrap the shaving, go for electrolysis. Au natural is wonderful ... to a point.
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FashionistaPosted:
Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:14 pm
Oscars ceremony could be first major loss for viewers as
deadline looms in Cablevision-ABC feud
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, March 6th 2010, 3:27 PM
Cablevision's 3.1 million customers in New York could lose access to the Academy Awards on Sunday if ABC's parent company follows through on a threat to pull the plug at midnight Saturday in a dispute over payments.
The Walt Disney Co. is seeking an additional $40 million a year in new fees, according to Cablevision Systems Corp. spokesman Charles Schueler. He said the company currently pays more than $200 million a year to Disney.
Disney said Cablevision charges customers $18 per month for basic broadcast signals, but does not pass on any payment for ABC to Disney.
The dispute is similar to a standoff at the end of last year between News Corp. and Time Warner Cable over how much Fox television station signals were worth. That tussle, which threatened the college football bowl season and new episodes of "The Simpsons," was resolved without a signal interruption.
Cablevision also feuded with Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. in a January dispute that temporarily forced the Food Network and HGTV off the service. Neither side provided terms of an agreement that restored the channels after three weeks.
Disney and Cablevision have been airing dueling advertisements about the ongoing dispute for the past week. Also, lawmakers in Washington have chimed in, suggesting the Federal Communications Commission step in.
The company's previous contract with Cablevision expired more than two years ago, but it was extended month by month as talks continued.
Under previous arrangements, Disney was paid for cable channels such as ESPN and Disney Channel, but gave its ABC broadcast signal away for free, a situation that most broadcasters are now trying to change.
"We can no longer sit back and allow Cablevision to use our shows for free while they continue to charge their customers for them," WABC-TV president and general manager Rebecca Campbell said in a statement.
Schueler suggested that disgruntled viewers should blame Disney's top executive if the station goes dark.
"There is one man who is going to decide whether New York gets to see the Oscars, and that's Disney President and CEO Bob Iger," he said in a statement late Friday. "We call on Bob Iger to stop holding his own viewers hostage, end his threats to pull the plug on ABC at midnight and instead work with us to reach a fair agreement."
WABC-TV is the most watched TV station in the country, said Disney, which is based in Burbank, Calif.
The signal, however, can still be pulled from the air for free with an antenna and a new TV or digital converter box.
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