2010 Academy Award Nominations Announced: The Oscars to be Held on March 7

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The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony — which is better known as the Oscar Awards — will award the finest films of 2009 and is all set to take place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

According to reports, the Academy Awards ceremony will be aired live in the US on ABC with actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin being the hosts.

The nominees for the Academy Awards were announced on Tuesday Feb 2, 2010 by Tom Sherak, president of the Academy, and actress Anne Hathaway.

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The nominations for the 2010 Academy Awards are as follows:

Best Actress In A Supporting Role

Penelope Cruz – Nine

Vera Farmiga – Up In The Air

Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart

Anna Kendrick – Up In The Air

Mo’nique – Precious

Best Actor In A Supporting Role

Matt Damon – Invictus

Woody Harrelson – The Messenger

Christopher Plummer – The Last Station

Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones

Cristoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds


Best Actress In A Leading Role

Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side

Helen Mirren – The Last Station

Carey Mulligan – An Education

Gabourey Sidibe – Precious

Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia

Best Actor In A Leading Role

Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart

George Clooney – Up In The Air

Colin Firth – A Single Man

Morgan Freeman – Invictus

Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Best Director

James Cameron – Avatar

Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker

Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Lee Daniels – Precious

Jason Reitman – Up In The Air

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 Foreign Language Film

Ajami

El Secreto De Sus Ojos

La Teta Asus Tada

A Prophet

The White Ribbon

Best Animated Film

The Fantastic Mr Fox

Coraline

The Princess and The Frog

Up

The Secret of Kells

Best Picture

Avatar

The Blind Side

District 9

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious

A Serious Man

Up

Up in the Air

Best Cinematography

Avatar

The White Ribbon

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Best Editing

Avatar

District 9

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious

Best Art Direction

Avatar

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

Sherlock Holmes

The Young Victoria

Best Costume Design

Bright Star

Coco avant Chanel

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

The Young Victoria

Best Makeup

Il divo

Star Trek

The Young Victoria

Best Original Score

Avatar – James Horner

Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat

The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders

Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer

Up – Michael Giacchino

Best Original Song

Crazy Heart – “The Weary Kind”

Faubourg 36 – “Loin de Paname”

Nine – “Take It All”

The Princess and the Frog – “Down in New Orleans”

The Princess and the Frog – “Almost There”

Best Sound Mixing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Star Trek

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Sound Editing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Star Trek

Up

Best Visual Effects

Avatar

District 9

Star Trek

Best Documentary, Features

Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land

The Cove

Food, Inc.

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Which Way Home

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner

The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant

Królik po berlinsku

Music by Prudence

Best Short Film, Animated

French Roast

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty

La dama y la muerte

Logorama

Wallace and Gromit in ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death’

Best Short Film, Live Action

The Door

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