82 Acadamy Awards - Nominees Announced!

[MegaMan087]

The nominees for the 82nd Acadamey Awards were announced this morning at 8:30 AM eastern. And the nominees are:

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

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

Best Original Screenplay
* The Hurt Locker
* Inglourious Basterds
* The Messenger
* A Serious Man
* Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
* District 9
* An Education
* In the Loop
* Precious
* Up in the Air

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

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

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

Best Supporting Actress
* Penélope Cruz - Nine
* Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
* Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
* Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
* Mo'Nique - Precious

Best Animated Film
* Coraline
* Fantastic Mr. Fox
* Princess and the Frog
* The Secret of Kells
* Up

Best 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

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

Best Visual Effects
* Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
* Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
* District 9 - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, and Matt Aitken

Best 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

Best 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

Best Original Score
* Avatar – James Horner
* Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
* The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami and Beck Sanders
* Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer
* Up – Michael Giacchino

Best Original Song
* "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
* "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
* "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36 – Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
* "Take it All" from Nine – Maury Yeston
* "Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best Art Direction
* Avatar – Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
* The Imaginarium of Dr. 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

Best Makeup
* Il Divo
* Star Trek
* The Young Victoria

Best Costume Design
* Bright Star – Janet Patterson
* Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier
* The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Monique Prudhomme
* Nine – Colleen Atwood
* The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell

Best 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

Best Foreign Language Film
* The Milk of Sorrow (Peru); in Spanish
* Ajami (Israel); in Hebrew
* The White Ribbon (Germany); in German
* A Prophet (France); in French
* The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina); in Spanish

Best 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

Best Animation 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

Best 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

The ceremony is on March 7th and is being hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin.

So, what do you guys think? Who are you hoping wins? Do you think anyone got nominated that didn't deserve it? How about films that were left out? Personally I'm hoping that "Up in the Air" wins best picture and adapted screenplay. It was by far my favorite film of the past year.

 

[The Cunning Weasel]

Avatar is too ****. I want Up to win something. Especially Best Animated film.

 

[CRASHiC]

If Coaraline doesn't win best animated I'll throw something at the television.

 

[Crimson King]

I never saw Avatar, I have no interest in seeing Avatar, and if it beats Inglourious Basterds, I will hate it more.

What the **** at no nominations for Moon? That movie was easily the best acted movie of 2009. ****ing politics.

 

[Frank West]

I'm crossing my fingers for Monique to win one. If Avatar wins anything other than best cinematography i'm going to vomit

 

[Terywj [태리]]

Up was good. It would be cool for it to win one. Avatar was only meh in my opinion.

-Terywj

 

[Luigitoilet]

The Blind Side being a nominee is crushingly hilarious.

My predictions:

Basterds will get mostly snubbed.Either Avatar or The Hurt Locker will win Best Pic.

Best Director-James Cameron

Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds or maybe Hurt Locker?

Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air

Actress: Sandra Bullock

Best Supporting actor: Christoph Waltz for Basterds (if this doesn't happen it's heresy)

Best Animated: Up

Best Cinematography: Avatar

Best Editing: Avatar. hopefully Basterds instead though

Visual Effects: this should be obvious

 

[day-day]

AVATAR FTW!! lol jk
Seriously though, Avatar's most likely going to win one or more. Visual Effects is a shoe in win for Avatar.
I'd like District 9 to win something though, Crimson may I ask what's your beef with Avatar?
Am I the only one who thought precious was boring and melodramatic? It's something I've seen a thousand times and anyone could have played Monique's role. Martin Lawrence in the big momma's house suit could have done Monique's role imho.

 

[Crimson King]

I wouldn't be surprised if Avatar swept it.

I saw it tonight, and while better than I thought, it was really just fluff for me. Visually, it set the tone for the next couple of years, if not next few decades, but story did nothing new or unique, which would have been refreshing. The entire movie just felt like a vehicle to show a new style of cinema, and I wasn't a fan at all.

 

[tmw_redcell]

Yeah, I don't think Basterds is gonna win anything.

Also, I had no idea District 9 was an adaptation. Turns out it's inspired by a short film from 2005. The IMDB trivia page is also enlightening in other ways:

"The mutilated animal carcasses in the background of many scenes were real and with only a few exceptions, were already in the real slums and shacks used for the filming."

REAL GOD**** ALIEN CARCASSES

WHY AM I THE ONLY PERSON FREAKING OUT?

The only real 'Oscar Movie" movie I saw from this year was The Hurt Locker, which was more generic than I expected. But still good.

 

[Pluvia]

So The Hurt Locker beat Avatar.

Christoph Waltz won too, which is good because he was ****ing amazing.

 

[Scott!]

Not a lot of surprises. Hurt Locker winning was pretty much the most likely result. Good for Jeff Bridges, who was pretty much a shoe-in. I'm glad Sandra Bullock got the award, just to have her win an Oscar and a Razzie in the same year. Good for Kathryn Bigelow winning best director as well. Christoph Waltz, no surprise. Up for best animated was pretty much a given, though a win for Coraline would have made me happy. But if Up was the only one to be nominated for best picture of the animated lot, then it was probably (hopefully) the best of them. Glad to see Avatar get all the technical awards it deserved.

Oh, and Neil Patrick Harris should have been the host. His opening number was awesome, and Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin, funny though they usually are, were a bit of a disappointment. Actually, NPH should probably host the Tony's, Emmy's, and Oscar's every year.

 

[Thrillhouse-vh.]

I am enjoying all the fanboy tears being shed from Avatar losing to The Hurt Locker, but that didn't deserve it either, but certainly more than Avatar did.

 

[Crimson King]

I was happy that Avatar won nothing major. It sucked that Tarantino still gets no credit for being a genius, and he should have won best screenplay.

I hated Ben Stiller, Oprah, and Streissan. Still was totally off-base in wearing make-up from a movie that didn't get nominated for best make-up then doing a long joke with it. Oprah totally stunned all other actress nominees by praising Steep (while good, other people were nominated too). I hated Streissan trying to make the beat director a race or sex thing; Bigelow was a good director regardless of sex. Announcing "it has finally happened" was tasteless because you taunted the director of Precious.

 

[Luigitoilet]

Really, the only thing I'm really disappointed with is Sandra Bullock winning, even though I expected it 100%. I would've liked to see Basterds win Screenplay.

 

[Thrillhouse-vh.]

I was happy that Avatar won nothing major. It sucked that Tarantino still gets no credit for being a genius, and he should have won best screenplay.

I would call cinematography a major category, personally, but I assume you mean the "Big 5" and the like.

Tarantino not winning Best Original Screenplay is one of the only three predictions I got wrong.

I knew Avatar was going to win Art Direction but Dr. Parnassus deserved it the most, with Sherlock Holmes behind it.

I'm not a big fan of the Hurt Locker (I'm even less a fan of Avatar ) but given the competition in its categories it rightfully won, ESPECIALLY Editing.

I was so glad that Ajami didn't win Foreign Film.

So what I got wrong:
Original Screenplay - Inglorious Basterds
Foreign Film - Ajami
Cinematography - The White Ribbon

Hey it's better than the more predictable last year where I only missed one...

Really, the only thing I'm really disappointed with is Sandra Bullock winning, even though I expected it 100%.

****ty actress pulls out a non-convincing serious role in a movie with a message = high chances. Seriously The Blind Side was pretty bad.

 

[Luigitoilet]

What was the message of Blind Side again? white people fix everything?

 

[Thrillhouse-vh.]

Black people NEED our help!