The country’s most prestigious and most prominent award ceremony, Academy Awards (Oscars), has announced this year’s set of nominees. “Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker” received the most number of nominations, followed by “Inglorious Basterds” with 8 nominations, “Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire and Up in the Air” with 6 nominations, “Up” by 5 nominations, “District 9,” “Star Trek” and “Nine” with 4 nominations, “Crazy Heart,” “The Princess and the Frog,” “An Education,” and “The Young Victoria” with 3 nominations, “The Blind Side,” “A Serious Man,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,” “Invictus,” “The Last Station,” “Sherlock Holmes,” “The Messenger,” and “The White Ribbon” with 2 nominations, and the rest like “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” with 1 entry.
Who among these nominees will win on March 7?
| 2010 OSCARS NOMINEES
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| Best Picture | |
| A Serious Man | An Education |
| Avatar | District 9 |
| Inglourious Basterds | Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire |
| The Blind Side | The Hurt Locker |
| Up | Up in the Air |
| Best Director | Best Actress |
| James Cameron (Avatar) | Carey Mulligan (An Education) |
| Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) | Gabourey Sidibe (Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire) |
| Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) | Helen Mirren (The Last Station) |
| Lee Daniels (Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire) | Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia) |
| Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) | Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) |
| Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor |
| Colin Firth (A Single Man) | Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) |
| George Clooney (Up in the Air) | Christopher Plummer (The Last Station) |
| Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) | Matt Damon (Invictus) |
| Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) | Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones) |
| Morgan Freeman (Invictus) | Woody Harrelson (The Messenger) |
| Best Supporting Actress | Best Original Screenplay |
| Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air) | A Serious Man (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) |
| Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart) | Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) |
| Mo’Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire) | The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal) |
| Penelope Cruz (Nine) | The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman) |
| Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air) | Up (Bob Peterson and Pete Docter) |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Best Animated Feature |
| An Education (Nick Hornby) | Coraline (Henry Selick) |
| District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell) | Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) |
| In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche) | The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements and John Musker) |
| Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (Geoffrey Fletcher) | The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey) |
| Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner) | Up (Bob Peterson and Pete Docter) |
| Best Foreign Language Film | |
| Ajami (Israel)- Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani | A Prophet (France) – Jacques Audiard |
| El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) – Juan José Campanella | The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) – Claudia Llosa |
| The White Ribbon (Germany) – Michael Haneke | |
| Best Documentary Feature | Best Documentary Short |
| Burma VJ – (Anders Ostergaard and Lise Lense-Moller) | China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill) |
| Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein) | Music by Prudence (Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett) |
| The Cove | Music by Prudence (Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett) |
| The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith) | The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert) |
| Which Way Home (Rebecca Cammisa) | Rabbit a la Berlin” (Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra) |
| Best Art Direction | Best Cinematography |
| Avatar – Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair | Avatar (Mauro Fiore) |
| Nine – Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim | Inglourious Basterds (Robert Richardson) |
| Sherlock Holmes – Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bruno Delbonnel) |
| The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith | The Hurt Locker (Barry Ackroyd) |
| The Young Victoria – Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray | The White Ribbon (Christian Berger) |
| Best Animated Short | Best Film Editing |
| A Matter of Loaf and Death (Nick Park) | Avatar (James Cameron, John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin) |
| French Roast (Fabrice O. Joubert) | District 9 (Julian Clarke) |
| Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty (Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell) | Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke) |
| Logorama (Nicolas Schmerkin) | Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (Joe Klotz) |
| The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) – Javier Recio Gracia | The Hurt Locker (Chris Innis and Bob Murawski) |
| Best Costume Design | Best Live Action Short |
| Bright Star (Janet Patterson) | Instead of Abracadabra (Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellstrom) |
| Coco Before Chanel (Catherine Leterrier) | Kavi (Gregg Helvey) |
| Nine (Colleen Atwood) | Miracle Fish (Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey) |
| The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme) | The Door (Juanita Wilson and James Flynn) |
| The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell) | The New Tenants (Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson) |
| Best Original Song | Best Original Score |
| “Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman | Avatar (James Horner) |
| “Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman | Fantastic Mr. Fox (Alexandre Desplat) |
| “Loin de Paname” from Paris 36 – Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas | Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer) |
| “Take it All” from Nine – Maury Yeston | The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Beck Sanders) |
| “Weary Kind” from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett | Up (Michael Giacchino) |
| Best Makeup | Best Visual Effects |
| Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano) | Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones) |
| Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow) | District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, and Matt Aitken) |
| The Young Victoria (Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore) | Star Trek (Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton) |
| Best Sound Editing | Best Sound Mixing |
| Avatar (Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle) | Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson) |
| Inglourious Basterds (Wylie Stateman) | Inglourious Basterds (Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano) |
| Star Trek (Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin) | Star Trek (Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin) |
| The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson) | The Hurt Locker (Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett) |
| Up (Michael Silvers and Tom Myers) | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson) |
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