Academy Award Nominations

Nomination

Nominees

Best Picture

1. Avatar
2. The Blind Side
3. District 9
4. An Education
5. The Hurt Locker
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
8. A Serious Man
9. Up
10. Up in the Air

Directing

1. Avatar
James Cameron
2. The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow
3. Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino
4. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Lee Daniels
5. Up in the Air
Jason Reitman

Actress in a Leading Role

1. Sandra Bullock
The Blind Side
2. Helen Mirren
The Last Station
3. Carey Mulligan
An Education
4. Gabourey Sidibe
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
5. Meryl Streep
Julie & Julia

Art Direction

1. Avatar
Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Art Direction); Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration)
2. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro (Art Direction); Caroline Smith (Set Decoration)
3. Nine
John Myhre (Art Direction); Gordon Sim (Set Decoration)
4. Sherlock Holmes
Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration)
5. The Young Victoria
Patrice Vermette (Art Direction); Maggie Gray (Set Decoration)

Actor in a Leading Role

1. Jeff Bridges
Crazy Heart
2. George Clooney
Up in the Air
3. Colin Firth
A Single Man
4. Morgan Freeman
Invictus
5. Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker

Foreign Language Film

1. Ajami
Israel
2. The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada)
Peru
3. A Prophet (Un Prophète)
France
4. The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)
Argentina
5. The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band)
Germany

Film Editing

1. Avatar
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
2. District 9
Julian Clarke
3. The Hurt Locker
Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
4. Inglourious Basterds
Sally Menke
5. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Joe Klotz

Documentary Feature

1. Burma VJ
Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
2. The Cove
Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
3. Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
4. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
5. Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa

Visual Effects

1. Avatar
Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
2. District 9
Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
3. Star Trek
Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Music (Original Score)

1. Avatar
James Horner
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
Alexandre Desplat
3. The Hurt Locker
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
4. Sherlock Holmes
Hans Zimmer
5. Up
Michael Giacchino

Cinematography

1. Avatar
Mauro Fiore
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Bruno Delbonnel
3. The Hurt Locker
Barry Ackroyd
4. Inglourious Basterds
Robert Richardson
5. The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band)
Christian Berger

Sound Mixing

1. Avatar
Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
2. The Hurt Locker
Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
3. Inglourious Basterds
Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
4. Star Trek
Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
5. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Sound Editing

1. Avatar
Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
2. The Hurt Locker
Paul N.J. Ottosson
3. Inglourious Basterds
Wylie Stateman
4. Star Trek
Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
5. Up
Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Costume Design

1. Bright Star
Janet Patterson
2. Coco Before Chanel
Catherine Leterrier
3. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Monique Prudhomme
4. Nine
Colleen Atwood
5. The Young Victoria
Sandy Powell

Actress in a Supporting Role

1. Penélope Cruz
Nine
2. Vera Farmiga
Up in the Air
3. Maggie Gyllenhaal
Crazy Heart
4. Anna Kendrick
Up in the Air
5. Mo’Nique
Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

1. District 9
Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
2. An Education
Screenplay by Nick Hornby
3. In the Loop
Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
4. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
5. Up in the Air
Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Makeup

1. Il Divo
Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
2. Star Trek
Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
3. The Young Victoria
Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Short Film (Live Action)

1. The Door
Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
2. Instead of Abracadabra
Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
3. Kavi
Gregg Helvey
4. Miracle Fish
Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
5. The New Tenants
Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Documentary Short

1. China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
2. The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
3. The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
4. Music by Prudence
Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
5. Rabbit à la Berlin
Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Short Film (Animated)

1. French Roast
Fabrice O. Joubert
2. Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
3. The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Javier Recio Gracia
4. Logorama
Nicolas Schmerkin
5. A Matter of Loaf and Death
Nick Park

Writing (Original Screenplay)

1. The Hurt Locker
Written by Mark Boal
2. Inglourious Basterds
Written by Quentin Tarantino
3. The Messenger
Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
4. A Serious Man
Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
5. Up
Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter. Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

Music (Original Song)

1. The Princess and the Frog
“Almost There”
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
2. The Princess and the Frog
“Down in New Orleans”
Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
3. Paris 36
“Loin de Paname”
Music by Reinhardt Wagner
Lyric by Frank Thomas
4. Nine
“Take It All”
Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
5. Crazy Heart
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”
Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Animated Feature Film

1. Coraline
Henry Selick
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson
3. The Princess and the Frog
John Musker and Ron Clements
4. The Secret of Kells
Tomm Moore
5. Up
Pete Docter

Actor in a Supporting Role

1. Matt Damon
Invictus
2. Woody Harrelson
The Messenger
3. Christopher Plummer
The Last Station
4. Stanley Tucci
The Lovely Bones
5. Christoph Waltz
Inglourious Basterds