Avatar, Hurt Locker Lead with 9 Nominations

The Academy’s expansion of the Best Picture category seems to have paid off, with a mix of Sundance independents (Precious, An Education), populist studio hits (Avatar, The Blind Side, Inglourious Basterds, District 9 and Up in the Air) and auteurial pieces (The Hurt Locker, A Serious Man and Inglourious Basterds) represented. This of course means the 10-wide crazy experiment field will be here to stay for a good while yet.

Analysis and reactions to follow shortly.

Picture

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

Director

• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron – Avatar
• Lee Daniels – Precious
• Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Actor

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

Actress

• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren – The Last Station
• Carey Mulligan – An Education
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Supporting Actor

• Matt Damon – Invictus
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

Supporting Actress

• Penelope Cruz – Nine
• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
• Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
• Mo’Nique – Precious

Original Screenplay

• The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
• The Messenger – Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
• A Serious Man – Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
• Up – Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

Adapted Screenplay

• District 9 – Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
• An Education – Nick Hornby
• In the Loop – Jess Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
• Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher
• Up in the Air – Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

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 (Das Weisse Band) – Christian Berger

Film Editing

• Avatar – James Cameron, John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin
• District 9 – Julian Clarke
• The Hurt Locker – Chris Innis, Bob Murawski
• Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke
• Precious – Joe Klotz

Original Score

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

Original Song

• Crazy Heart – “The Weary Kind”
• Nine – “Take it All”
• Paris 36 – “Loin de Paname”
• The Princess and the Frog – “Almost There”
• The Princess and the Frog – “Down in New Orleans”

Costume Design

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

Art Direction

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

Makeup

• Il Divo
• Star Trek
• The Young Victoria

Sound Editing

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Star Trek
• Up

Sound Mixing

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

Visual Effects

• Avatar
• District 9
• Star Trek

Animated Feature

• Coraline – Henry Selick (director/producer); Claire Jennings, Bill Mechanic, Mary Sandell (producers)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson (director/producer); Allison Abbate, Jeremy Dawson, Scott Rudin (producers)
• The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements, John Musker (directors); Peter Del Vecho (producer)
• The Secret of the Kells – Tomm Moore (director/producer), Nora Tworney (co-director); Didier Brunner, Viviane Vanfleteren, Paul Young (producers)
• Up – Pete Docter, Bob Peterson (directors); Jonas Rivera (producer)

Foreign Language Film

• Ajami – Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani (Israel)
• The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada) – Claudia Llosa (Peru)
• A Prophet (Un Prophète) – Jacques Audiard (France)
• The Secret in their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) – Juan Jose Campanella (Argentina)
• The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) – Michael Haneke (Germany)

Documentary Feature

• Burma VJ – Anders Østergaard (director); Lise Lense-Møller, (producer)
• The Cove – Louie Psihoyos (director); Paula DuPré Pesman, Fisher Stevens (producers)
• Food, Inc. – Robert Kenner (director/producer); Kim Roberts (producer)
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers – Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith (directors/producers)
• Which Way Home – Rebecca Cammisa (director)

Live Action Short

• The Door – Juanita Wilson (director); James Flynn (producer)
• Instead of Abracadabra – Patrik Eklund (director); Mathias Fjellstrom (producer)
• Kavi – Gregg Helvey (director/producer)
• Miracle Fish – Luke Doolan (director); Drew Bailey (producer)
• The New Tenants – Joachim Back (director); Tivi Magnusson (producer)

Animated Short

• French Roast – Fabrice O. Joubert (director)
• Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty – Nicky Phelan (director); Darragh O’Connell (producer)
• The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerta) – Javier Recio Gracia (director)
• Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin (producer)
• A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park (director)

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 a la Berlin
• Richardson
• The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) – Christian Berger