Oscars 2010
Oscar nominations announced: 'Avatar,' 'Hurt Locker' lead with nine each
by Dave Karger
Categories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Animated Film, Best Director, Best Documentary, Best Picture, Best Song, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, News
Here are the nominees in the 10 major categories for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Avatar and The Hurt Locker each scored nine nominations. The winners will be announced on March 7. I’ll write up my category-by-category commentary later this morning. In the meantime, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter (@davekarger) for Academy Award updates between now and the Oscar ceremony.
Best Picture: Avatar The Blind Side District 9An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds PreciousA Serious ManUp Up in the Air
Eight of the 10 Producers Guild nominees repeated here. Invictus and Star Trek were replaced by A Serious Man and, in one of the morning’s biggest surprises, The Blind Side, which had received no guild nominations or critics prizes other than for Sandra Bullock’s performance. Clearly all the Sandra love buoyed the film. As expected, The Hurt Locker, Avatar, Inglourious Basterds (8 nods), Precious (6 nods), and Up in the Air (6 nods) led the pack, while Up becomes only the second animated film ever to be nominated for Best Picture. Star Trek, meanwhile, did score a total of four nominations but just couldn’t muscle into Best Picture. That’s the best news for Avatar, which still may have a hard time beating The Hurt Locker.
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart George Clooney, Up in the Air Colin Firth, A Single Man Morgan Freeman, Invictus Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
These are the five SAG nominees, so nothing surprising here. Morgan Freeman was the only possible weak link, but none of the guys on the bubble—Viggo Mortensen, Matt Damon, Ben Foster, Robert Downey Jr.—had enough oomph. How can Jeff Bridges lose? I’d say Jeremy Renner is the only one who can upset him (like Adrien Brody for The Pianist).
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, The Last Station Carey Mulligan, An Education Gabourey Sidibe, Precious Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Another repeat of the SAG nominees. The Young Victoria’s Emily Blunt had a shot at displacing Helen Mirren, but clearly the older voters responded well to The Last Station. The Blind Side’s Best Picture nomination (compared to no other nods for Julie & Julia) means Bullock has the edge.
Best Supporting Actor: Matt Damon, Invictus Woody Harrelson, The Messenger Christopher Plummer, The Last Station Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
A bunch of talented gents were overlooked here: Alec Baldwin, Christian McKay, Alfred Molina, Peter Sarsgaard, and Anthony Mackie, to name just five. As I’ve stated before, this race was over before it ever began.
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
Here we have the only variance from SAG in the individual acting races, as Maggie Gyllenhaal stole Diane Kruger’s slot. And even though Julianne Moore failed to earn a SAG nod for A Single Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
The five DGA nominees repeated here, fending off competition from the likes of Neill Blomkamp and Lone Scherfig. But these five films are so far out in front that no one else really had a shot. It’s Bigelow’s to lose.
Best Original ScreenplayMark Boal, The Hurt LockerAlessandro Camon & Oren Moverman, The MessengerJoel Coen & Ethan Coen, A Serious ManPete Docter, Bob Peterson & Tom McCarthy, UpQuentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
As with Titanic, James Cameron failed to earn a screenplay nomination for Avatar. The Messenger duo stole the fifth slot from the adorable (500) Days of Summer guys. With Hurt Locker and Basterds in the running, this may be the tightest major race of the year.
Best Adapted ScreenplayJesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche, In the LoopNeill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell, District 9Geoffrey Fletcher, PreciousNick Hornby, An EducationJason Reitman & Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
If there’s a shock here, it’s the inclusion of the little-seen In the Loop over Fantastic Mr. Fox. But the writers branch often goes for a sharp British indie, so maybe I shouldn’t be so surprised.
Best Animated FilmCoralineFantastic Mr. FoxThe Princess and the FrogThe Secret of KellsUp
Best Foreign Language FilmEl Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina)Un Prophete (France)The White Ribbon (Germany)Ajami (Israel)The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
The rest of the categories are after the jump.
Best Art DirectionAvatarThe Imaginarium of Doctor ParnassusNineSherlock HolmesThe Young Victoria
Best CinematographyAvatarHarry Potter and the Half-Blood PrinceThe Hurt LockerInglourious BasterdsThe White Ribbon
Best Costume DesignBright StarCoco Before ChanelThe Imaginarium of Doctor ParnassusNineThe Young Victoria
Best DocumentaryBurma VJThe CoveFood, Inc.The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon PapersWhich Way Home
Best EditingAvatarDistrict 9The Hurt LockerInglourious BasterdsPrecious
Best MakeupIl DivoStar TrekThe Young Victoria
Best ScoreAvatarFantastic Mr. FoxThe Hurt LockerSherlock HolmesUp
Best Song“Almost There,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman“Down in New Orleans,” The Princess and the Frog, Randy Newman“Loin de Paname,” Paris 36, Reinhardt Wagner & Frank Thomas“Take It All,” Nine, Maury Yeston“The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart, T-Bone Burnett & Ryan Bingham
Best Sound EditingAvatarThe Hurt LockerInglourious BasterdsStar TrekUp
Best Sound MixingAvatarThe Hurt LockerInglourious BasterdsStar TrekTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Best Visual EffectsAvatarDistrict 9Star Trek
Best Documentary ShortChina’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan ProvinceThe Last Campaign of Governor Booth GardnerThe Last Truck: Closing of a GM PlantMusic by PrudenceRabbit à la Berlin
Best Animated ShortFrench RoastGranny O’Grimm’s Sleeping BeautyThe Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)LogoramaA Matter of Loaf and Death
Best Live-Action ShortThe DoorInstead of AbracadabraKaviMiracle FishThe New Tenants
Image credit: Avatar: WETA; Renner: Jonathan Olley; Oscar: A.M.P.A.S.
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