The 82nd Annual Academy Awards Nominees

[Polk]

Because I couldn't think of an interesting title for this thread. Either way, Tuesday morning, the nominees were announced.

BEST PICTURE:
Avatar (20th Century Fox)
The Blind Side (Warner Bros.)
District 9 (Sony)
An Education (Sony Classics)
The Hurt Locker (Summit)
Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein Co.)
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate)
A Serious Man (Focus Features)
Up (Disney/Pixar Animation)
Up in the Air (Paramount)

DIRECTING:
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker (Summit)
James Cameron - Avatar (20th Century Fox)
Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate)
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air (Paramount)
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein Co.)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight)
George Clooney - Up in the Air (Paramount)
Colin Firth - A Single Man (Weinstein Co.)
Morgan Freeman - Invictus (Warner Bros.)
Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker (Summit)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side (Warner Bros.)
Helen Mirren - The Last Station (Sony Pictures Classics)
Carey Mulligan - An Education (Sony Classics)
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate)
Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia (Sony)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Matt Damon - Invictus (Warner Bros.)
Woody Harrelson - The Messenger (Oscilloscope Pictures)
Christopher Plummer - The Last Station (Sony Pictures Classics)
Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones (Paramount)
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein Co.)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Penelope Cruz - Nine (Weinstein Co.)
Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air (Paramount)
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight)
Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air (Paramount)
Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Neill Blomkamp and - District 9 (Sony)
Nick Hornby - An Education (Sony Classics)
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche - In the Loop (IFC Films)
Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate)
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air (Paramount)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker (Summit)
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein Co.)
Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon - The Messenger (Oscilloscope Pictures)
Joel and Ethan Coen - A Serious Man (Focus Features)
Pete Docter and Bob Peterson - Up (Disney/Pixar)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Ajami (Kino International) - Israel
El Secreto de sus Ojos - Argentina
The Milk of Sorrow - Peru
Une Prophéte (Sony Pictures Classics) - France
The White Ribbon (Sony Pictures Classics) - Germany

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Coraline (Focus Features)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Fox Searchlight)
The Princess and the Frog (Disney Pictures)
The Secret of the Kells
Up (Disney/Pixar)

ART DIRECTION:
Avatar (20th Century Fox)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Sony Pictures Classics)
Nine (Weinstein Co.)
Sherlock Holmes (Warner Bros.)
The Young Victoria (Apparition)

CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Avatar (20th Century Fox) - Mauro Fiore
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker (Summit) - Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein Co.) - Robert Richardson
The White Ribbon (Sony Pictures Classics) - Christian Berger

COSTUME DESIGN:
Bright Star (Apparition) - Janet Patterson
Coco Before Chanel (Sony Pictures Classics) - Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Sony Pictures Classics) - Monique Prudhomme
Nine (Weinstein Co.) - Colleen Atwood
The Young Victoria (Apparition) - Sandy Powell

FILM EDITING:
Avatar (20th Century Fox) - Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
District 9 (Sony) - Julian Clarke
The Hurt Locker (Summit) - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Inglourious Basterds (Weinstein Co.) - Sally Menke
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate) - Joe Klotz

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
Burma VJ (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
The Cove (Roadside Attractions)
Food, Inc. (Magnolia Pictures)
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (A Kovno Communications Production)
Which Way Home (A Mr. Mudd Production)

MAKEUP:
Il Divo (MPI Media Group through Music Box), Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
Star Trek (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment), Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
The Young Victoria (Apparition), Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

ORIGINAL SCORE:
Avatar (20th Century Fox), James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox (20th Century Fox), Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes (Warner Bros.), Hans Zimmer
Up (Walt Disney), Michael Giacchino

ORIGINAL SONG:
"Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney), Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney), Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" (Sony Pictures Classics), Music by Reinhardt Wagner, Lyric by Frank Thomas
"Take It All" from "Nine" (The Weinstein Company), Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight), Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

SOUND MIXING:
Avatar (20th Century Fox), Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company), Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
Star Trek (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment), Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount), Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

SOUND EDITING:
Avatar (20th Century Fox), Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment), Paul N.J. Ottosson
Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company), Wylie Stateman
Star Trek (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment), Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Up (Walt Disney), Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

VISUAL EFFECTS:
Avatar (20th Century Fox), Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
District 9 (Sony Pictures Releasing), Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
Star Trek (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment), Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, A Downtown Community Television Center Production - Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, A Just Media Production - Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, A Community Media Production - Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
Music by Prudence, An iThemba Production - Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
Rabbit à la Berlin" (Deckert Distribution), An MS Films Production - Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
French Roast, A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films Production, Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Brown Bag Films), A Brown Bag Films Production, Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production, Javier Recio Gracia
Logorama" (Autour de Minuit), An Autour de Minuit Production, Nicolas Schmerkin
A Matter of Loaf and Death (Aardman Animations), An Aardman Animations Production, Nick Park

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
The Door (Network Ireland Television), An Octagon Films Production, Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
Instead of Abracadabra (The Swedish Film Institute), A Directörn & Fabrikörn Production, Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
Kavi, A Gregg Helvey Production, Gregg Helvey
Miracle Fish" (Premium Films), A Druid Films Production, Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
The New Tenants, A Park Pictures and M & M Production, Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

And here's the post I got the list from.

Thoughts/feelings/predictions/hopes?

I'll do my predictions a little bit later, but for now, Avatar being put up for best picture is a damn crime. I expect it to win art direction and cinematography, but really, Dances with Wolves already won best picture.

[Dodie16]

I've never been one to actually watch the Academy Awards, but I like hearing if my favorite movies or actors/actresses won in their category. I don't really know how the Academy chooses a winner though.

Oooohhh. Two of my favorite movies are both up for Best Animated Feature Film (Coraline and Up). I think Up will take it. Coraline was a good movie, but since it was based on a book, it used someone else's subject matter to work from (storywise), but Up was completely original, and just a wonderful movie.

I kind of hope Up gets it for best Original Screenplay as well, but there's some stiff competition up there. Inglorious Basterds sticks out to me as something that would get the upper hand in that category.

I really hope that Precious gets something out of the categories it was nominated in. I don't see it really happening for Best Picture, since it's in the same category as Avatar, Inglorious Basterds, and District 9. Those three movies are all I really heard about this year from other people, but when I mention Precious, no one knows what I'm talking about.

[smurphy]

God I hope that "In The Loop" wins best adapted screenplay. Though I dont see why its really in that category. Doesnt anyone else think that the foreign feature list looks preety barren of really good movies?

[Walter Sobchak]

The Hurt Locker is going to win Best Picture, Best Director, and maybe even Best Original Screenplay. It is written.

smurphy, the reason the category is barren is because the countries get to select the film they submit. A Prophet and The White Ribbon are arty enough, but most of the time countries pick middlebrow nonsense.

[Taco-Calamitous]

Wow, Fantastic Mr. Fox was nominated not only for best animated picture, but also best original score? I don't think it will win either, but it was a very good film; really funny. I went in not knowing really what to expect, and was really surprised by a mix of nostalgic feeling and strong comedy.

Up is probably my favorite of those nominated for best picture, but then again, the only other one I saw was Avatar. I hear the Hurt Locker is supposed to be really good, though; want to see it.

My brother is a huge follower of the Avatar cause. I get texts and facebook updates as to how the film is doing; he said China renamed a mountain after the movie... Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

[Rocky]

I see Morgan Freeman and Sandra Bullock winning the best actor/actress awards. Freeman WAS Invictus and The Blind Side was probably Bullock's best performance yet.

[Walter Sobchak]

I see Morgan Freeman and Sandra Bullock winning the best actor/actress awards. Freeman WAS Invictus and The Blind Side was probably Bullock's best performance yet.

Sandra Bullock will probably win, but Morgan Freeman was barely nominated. Jeff Bridges will win, if not Jeremy Renner.

[Polk]

God I hope that "In The Loop" wins best adapted screenplay. Though I dont see why its really in that category. Doesnt anyone else think that the foreign feature list looks preety barren of really good movies?

In the Loop is a spin-off from some BBC show, and thus, isn't original material. Though I agree with you, I liked it a lot, and the only real competition I see it having is Up in the Air.

I hope that Meryl Streep actually wins for best actress. Her half of Julie and Julia was actually watchable, unlike that Amy Adams crap. For best actor, I really wouldn't mind seeing any of the nominees win. I will however, be offended if Jeff Bridges wins and his speech doesn't include the words, "The Dude abides."

[charliepanayi]

I think the following will win:

Picture: Avatar
Director: James Cameron
Actor: Jeff Bridges
Actress: Sandra Bullock
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Supporting Actress: MoN'ique
Animated Film: Up

Though I'd like The Hurt Locker to win the big prizes.

Nice to see Wallace and Gromit up for Best Animated Short Film too

[Polk]

Well, the Oscars were last night, and I honestly forgot. I had an idea of updating this thread as the night went on, but I forgot and played some Ninja Gaiden Sigma instead. Anyway, here's the list of winners from last night, taken directly from Spill.com.

BEST PICTURE:
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) - Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, Producers


DIRECTING:
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)


ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE:
Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight)


ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side (Warner Bros.)


ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company)


ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate)


ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate) - Geoffrey Fletcher


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) - Mark Boal


FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
El Secreto de sus Ojos (Sony Pictures Classics) - Argentina


ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Up (Disney•Pixar) - Pete Docter


ART DIRECTION:
Avatar (20th Century Fox), Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair


CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Avatar (20th Century Fox) - Mauro Fiore


COSTUME DESIGN:
The Young Victoria (Apparition) - Sandy Powell


FILM EDITING:
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) - Bob Murawski and Chris Innis


DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
The Cove (Roadside Attractions) - Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens


MAKEUP:
Star Trek (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow


ORIGINAL SCORE:
Up (Disney•Pixar) - Michael Giacchino


ORIGINAL SONG:
"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from Crazy Heart (Fox Searchlight) - Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett


SOUND MIXING:
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) - Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett


SOUND EDITING:
The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment) - Paul N.J. Ottosson


VISUAL EFFECTS:
Avatar (20th Century Fox) - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones


DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
Music by Prudence - Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett


ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
Logorama (Autour de Minuit) - Nicolas Schmerkin


LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
The New Tenants - Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

The Hurt Locker picked up six awards, including best picture and director. Christoph Waltz rightly won Best Supporting Actor, and Avatar won every award it should have, meaning the visual awards, and nothing else. The one thing I'm not too keen on is Sandra Bullock winning Best Actress (even though I've heard she's really good in The Blind Side), as Meryl Streep was fantastic in Julie and Julia and actually made that film watchable. I guess I can't complain too much.

Thoughts/feelings on the winners or the show as a whole?

[Dodie16]

I didn't watch the awards either. Of course, I don't think I ever have, but I like hearing about the winners.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate)

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate) - Geoffrey Fletcher

Good. I'm glad Precious got the award for best adapted screenplay. ^^ I'll have to read up on the original material sometime, and I'll have a box of kleenex handy when I do. Hooray for Mo'Nique too. I was used to seeing her in a comedy role, but she pulled off playing the mom in that film really well. It's her first Academy award too.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Up (Disney•Pixar) - Pete Docter

Pixar got ANOTHER award for best animated feature film? I am sooo shocked!

/sarcasm

Seriously, everything Pixar does is amazing, and I think that every movie that they've done has won something at the Academy Awards.

Haven't seen any of the other movies that won anything, so I can't really comment about anything else.

[RagnaToad]

I'm not someone who watches a lot of new films really, let alone films of the last year, so I can't comment on whether they deserved it or not.

I'm surprised at how right Sobchak was though.

[Walter Sobchak]

I'm not someone who watches a lot of new films really, let alone films of the last year, so I can't comment on whether they deserved it or not.

I'm surprised at how right Sobchak was though.

I was actually 13/24 in all the awards, but I knew the major awards for like a month. It can be very predictable.

[RagnaToad]

Yeah it can. I didn't expect Jeff Bridges to receive Best male actor though, as I'd seen that the movie only got a 2/4 stars in a newspaper.

It's all for show mostly anyway. Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges got one because 'it was time', in my opinion.

Have you seen all the movies that got major awards?

[loaf]

District 9 for best picture. Most of the other awards and nominees I don't even know of or seen the movies lol. I know for one Sandra Bullock was really good in The Blind Side, but I never saw it.

[Walter Sobchak]

Yeah it can. I didn't expect Jeff Bridges to receive Best male actor though, as I'd seen that the movie only got a 2/4 stars in a newspaper.

It's all for show mostly anyway. Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges got one because 'it was time', in my opinion.

Have you seen all the movies that got major awards?

Jeff Bridges won the Critics' Choice Award and the Golden Globe. No one else had any traction. It certainly was his time. Both Clooney and Freeman have won in the last seven years, Renner is new, and Firth will be back again.

I saw nine of the Best Picture nominees, absent the Blind Side, which I will never see. I saw Crazy Heart, which was what Bridges won for. I saw the documentary winner The Cove, and likely runner-up Food Inc. I did not see the foreign language winner, only because four of those nominees did not even come out in the United States in 2009 (The White Ribbon did, and I saw it). I saw Streep in Julie & Julia, which should have won. I did not see The Messenger, with an acting and screenplay nomination, or The Last Station, with two acting nominations. I did see In the Loop, the other screenplay nominee that was not a nominee for Best Picture.

[RagnaToad]

I saw nine of the Best Picture nominees, absent the Blind Side, which I will never see.

Why not? Because of the alleged 'racist' tone of the story?

I saw Crazy Heart, which was what Bridges won for.

Was it good?

[Walter Sobchak]

Why not? Because of the alleged 'racist' tone of the story?
Was it good?

In the case of The Blind Side, it is by all appearances one of the worst movies ever made. Regarding Crazy Heart, it is a textbook mediocre character-driven drama. You literally see every turn coming twenty minutes before it comes. If it had been nominated for Best Picture, it would be better than The Blind Side, Avatar, District 9, and Precious.

[Acheron]

It's really a shame that Jeremy Renner didn't get the Oscar for Best Actor. Say what you want about Jeff Bridges and his performance in "Crazy Heart," it's really hard for me to believe that he got it for any other reason besides that he's old and has been passed over a few times before. I'm not saying his performance was bad by any means, but Renner made far more of his material than Bridges did of his....but hey, that's just my opinion.

[charliepanayi]

Glad The Hurt Locker won, though most of the awards were very predictable I guess.

And I'm with Walter, Bullock may be good in it, but The Blind Side looks terrible.

[Walter Sobchak]

It's really a shame that Jeremy Renner didn't get the Oscar for Best Actor. Say what you want about Jeff Bridges and his performance in "Crazy Heart," it's really hard for me to believe that he got it for any other reason besides that he's old and has been passed over a few times before. I'm not saying his performance was bad by any means, but Renner made far more of his material than Bridges did of his....but hey, that's just my opinion.

Well, I think Bridges was better than Renner, but you are correct in that Bridges won because of his longevity. He has been nominated many times without a win. Bullock has been around forever, so she was given the award for the same reason. Same goes for Kate Winslet last year, and so on.

The thinking is that someone like Jeremy Renner will explode due to his newfound fame. He will be back.