Complete List of 2010 Oscar Nominees
No more time left to predict...
This morning at 5:38 AM the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Oscar-nominated actress and Academy member Anne Hathaway announced the nominations for 10 of the 24 categories for the 2010 Oscars, followed by a press release with the other 14 category nominees.
The complete list of nominees can be found directly below with Avatar and The Hurt Locker leading the pack with nine nominations each. Inglourious Basterds pulled in eight and Precious and Up In the Air earned six each. I will be posting a reaction piece very shortly, but in all honesty there is only one nomination that surprises me and I think proves the ten nominees for Best Picture are just silly.
If you are interested in my last batch of nomination predictions you can click here to view those or read the write-up here.
- Avatar
- The Blind Side
- District 9
- An Education
- The Hurt Locker
- Inglourious Basterds
- Precious
- A Serious Man
- Up
- Up In the Air
- Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
- Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
- Carey Mulligan (An Education)
- Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
- Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)
- Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
- George Clooney (Up In the Air)
- Colin Firth (A Single Man)
- Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
- Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
- Matt Damon (Invictus)
- Woody Harrellson (The Messenger)
- Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
- Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
- Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
- Penelope Cruz (Nine)
- Vera Farmiga (Up In the Air)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
- Anna Kendrick (Up In the Air)
- Mo'Nique (Precious)
- Coraline
- Fantastic Mr. Fox
- The Princess and the Frog
- The Secret of Kells
- Up
- China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
- The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
- The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant”
- Music by Prudence
- Rabbit à la Berlin
- French Roast
- Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
- The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
- Logorama
- A Matter of Loaf and Death
- The Door
- Instead of Abracadabra
- Kavi
- Miracle Fish
- The New Tenants
- Avatar
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- Nine
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Young Victoria
- 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
- Bright Star, Janet Patterson
- Coco before Chanel, Catherine Leterrier
- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Monique Prudhomme
- Nine, Colleen Atwood
- The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell
- James Cameron (Avatar)
- Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
- Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
- Lee Daniels (Precious)
- Jason Reitman (Up In the Air)
- Burma VJ
- The Cove
- Food, Inc.
- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
- Which Way Home
- Il Divo, Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
- Star Trek, Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
- The Young Victoria, Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
- Avatar, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
- District 9, Julian Clarke
- The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
- Inglourious Basterds, Sally Menke
- Precious, Joe Klotz
- Ajami
- El Secreto De Sus Ojos
- The Milk of Sorrow
- A Prophet
- The White Ribbon
- Avatar, James Horner
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alexandre Desplat
- The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
- Sherlock Holmes, Hans Zimmer
- Up, Michael Giacchino
- "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36 Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
- "Take It All" from Nine Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
- "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from Crazy Heart Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
- 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
- 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
- Avatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
- District 9, Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
- Star Trek, Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
- Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (District 9)
- Nick Hornby (An Education)
- Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop)
- Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious)
- Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Up In the Air)
- Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker)
- Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
- Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman (The Messenger)
- Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
- Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy (Up)
I will have my reaction piece written soon, but for now let your opinion known in the comments and the poll below.
Loading ...The Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.
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Looking forward to this – thanks for the live stream.
I'm sure you remember that, but you got only five dots. There will be 10 Best Picture Nominees.
yeah are there gonna be 10 or 5 best picture noms?
I'm in the London time zone, could someone tell me what the time difference is?
What time is it going to start? 5 or 6 am?
sorry…. "The Oscar Nominees will be Announced at 5:30 AM PST"
It's 14:30 in Poland so it's 13:30 in UK :)
I'll be happy once I here the words "Ponyo" for Best Animated Feature.
I knew they were going to use a large display instead of the tiny screens they usually use!
I knew that POS the BLIND SIDE would get that Best Picture Nom.
Go Basterds!!! 8 Nominations!!! PLease win them all!
The Blind Side is in. :P So is District 9. Invictus was the only shutout, right?
The other nominees were alright..Nothing shocking..Except for the guy who was waiting for Ponyo. Hard luck, mate!
Hooray for In the Loop, Delbonnel's lensing of HPB, Zimmer for Sherlock Holmes (he's had an unwarranted dry run, Oscar wise), and Desplat's nomination for Fantastic Mr. Fox. Also, I'm happy for Damon and Freeman, but disappointed that Invictus missed the BP cut. And that D9 got in.
But whatever. There are too many pleasant surprises in here to me to be truly cut. Not like last year…
This whole Blind Side thing is a joke, probably one of the least deserving movies for an oscar nomination ever. They surely have to cut it back to 5 nominations next year.
So we have 9 for Avatar and 9 for The Hurt Locker and 8 for Inglorious Basterds.
Hooray for "Take It All" from Nine! I KNEW it would trump "Cinema Italiano" if one of them was going to make the cut.
I have a lot of words to describe the nominees. Apart from District 9 for Best Picture, pleasantly surprised does not factor in. The Blind Side is a great film, but should it be in Best Picture? I guess that's why they got the five extra noms. The Helen Mirren nom leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Not cause I have anything against her, but there were quite a few actresses more deserving. I can't believe that Inglourious Basterds couldn't score more than one acting nom after winning Best Ensemble at the SAG's. Melanie Laurent deserved a nom. Well I'll be rooting for either Hurt Locker or Inglourious to take it to the bank.
Avatar and The Hurt Locker tie for 9 Nominations. Inglourious Basterds with 8. Is there anything higher than these three? I don't think so.
Lee Daniels. FANTASTIC…
So glad "I See You" didn't make the cut.
I wish there had been more surprises at this year's Oscars. Nothing really shocking here, just all of the people that were supposed to be nominated.
One mistake that was made (although not much of a shocker) was the Best Picture nomination for The Blind Side. Did anyone else pick this one? I mean we all agree the best thing about this flick was Sandra Bullock's performance; however, Best Picture? Are you kidding me. How does Star Trek win the Best Cast award at the "Critic's Choice Awards" and then get snubbed by the academy? Guess, to nominate D9, Avatar "and" Trek would have been one too many Science Fiction films.
Overall, this was pretty standard stuff.
Wow… what surprises me the most is that there are basically no surprises this year.
Thrilled for Basterds, In the Loop & Gabourey Sidibe as Monique wouldn't have been half as good without her. The 10 Picture noms kinda devalues the award IMHO, although I'm happy to see District 9 and Up up there.
@The Jackal: Because the critics don't vote for the Oscars.
Great to see Maggie for Best Supporting Actress and "The Secret of Kells" for Best Animated Film.
I still believe 10 movies is way too much. District 9 would never have got nominated on any other year. That category is way too saturated. There may be 10, but we all know what the real 5 are if it were to stay as it always was.
Now I wonder if Avatar and District 9 will split their votes opening a path for either Hurt Locker or Basterds.
I think the other 8 nominees will leech votes away from Avatar to enough of an extent that The Hurt Locker ends up with the most votes.
Also, I think Fantastic Mr. Fox will win Best Animated Film, because the vote for Up will be split between Best Picture and Best Animated Film. Pixar shouldn't have entered Up for Best Picture, because in so doing the set themselves up to lose Best Animated Film.
Ok, 'm gonna be the devil's advocate here. Sure, The Blind Side wasn't the art that some believe An Education to be. But it was damn good entertainment. And I vote it in over last year's The Reader any day of the week, and four times on a lazy Tuesday. Let them have their fun. We all know the bottom five are mainly to draw the viewers. Noone thinks that An Education, Up, A Serious Man, The Blind Side or District 9 have a shot in hell..It's just standard protocol Academy Appeasement of the various groups of eyeballs they're trying to attract..And I wouldn't have minded if Star Trek had made it through, but even that isn't art..Lets face it. Besides The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds, none of the other films are representative of the art of cinema. So why quibble over them? Just let 'em have a win; or a nomination in this case.
YES!! A Serious Man got a Best Picture nom. But what is the Blind Side doing being nominated over a movie like (500) Days of Summer? I guess the two can offset each other.
@John: I really do not see the logic in that, if anything it's just going to make them vote for Up for Animated Feature even more, no matter how they vote for the Best Picture Award. But we'll see, I still say that Up will take Animated, and most likely Score.
I'm happy that Up and District 9 were included. My second and third favorite films of the year after The Hurt Locker. I know Brad's disappointed with D-9, but I think it was excellent, certainly a better Sci-Fi film then Avatar, despite its lack of effects and budget.
The fact that The Hurt Locker tied Avatar for most nominations is very telling for The Hurt Locker's favor. Everyone thought that Avatar (and Inglorious Basterds) would lead with noms, but nope lol. Aside from Waltz, the only other performance I thought was worthy of a nomination was Kruger, not Laurent; I feel her performance was too one-note and too blocked off that she became kinda boring for me.
I am somewhat pleased with the nominations. A few categories were less than surprising, Best Actor and Actress…others such as Best Supporting Actress was somewhat surprising. I think it might have been a bad year to expand the Best Picture category to 10, but who knows.
How does one justify any film other than "Up" winning Best Animated Film, when it is the only animated film to have been nominated for best overall picture?
Forget nominating Animated movies in Best Picture categories. They have their own category. If Up doesn't win Best Animated Pic, it's a huge snub but there's no way it'll win Best Pic.
Either let the Animated pics play with the big boys in the Best Pic category or just let them go at it in their own Animated category. Don't start nominating them in both, that's completely unnecessary and I don't see the logic.
We are in an in between stage in which Animated Films still don't have a strong enough pull to win Best Picture, so to honor them with their own award seems appropriate, however I think it is still okay to consider them for Best Picture if the film should be considered. Up would have never made it in if it weren't for the 10 nominees. Eventually if an animated film becomes a real legitimate contender for best picture then we can talk about dropping the animated category, but until then…Let the animated films play in both fields.
I am so glad to see some District 9 love, but my favorite movie of 2009 recieved none, Watchmen. I know people had their problems with it, but visually i felt it was stunning, costume design was great, Jackie Earle Haley gave a stellar performance, and many hold Watchmen as the greatest graphic novel of all time, so possibly adapted screenplay. If not Oscar attention, any attention for Watchmen would have been appreciated for myself, but it went totally unnoticed all awards seasons. Just my thoughts. Overall I approve of the list of nominees despite personally not caring the slightest about Up in the Air, Inglorious Basterds or the Hurt Locker.
@Rob Carraher:
But don't you find having Up in both categories uses up one of the 10 Best Pic spots for no reason? It's a guarantee it won't take Best Pic, why even nominate it? It's recognized in Best Animated Pic and will most likely take it. But to nominate it or any other animated film in both seems a bit much.
If they want to include those, then scrap the Animated Pic category all together and let them all compete in the Best Pic category. Up was a great film and definetly would get my vote as a nomination in the top 5 Best Pic. Fantastic Mr Fox was great. Princess and the Frog, Secret of Kells and Coraline all could have easily been left behind, no doubt.
How about this scenario: Take away the Best Animated Category. Remove District 9 and put the Fantastic Mr Fox. Then you have 2 truly great animated movies that could be seriously considered part of the Best Pic race.
I find that every year there simply aren't enough good animated movies to be considered a Best Animated Feature. This is a rare year where we actually have 2 of the 5.
Am I alone in this thinking?
I find it funny that "District 9" is considered Sci-Fi instead of a Political Drama. The movie's all about apartheid. Just like "Star Wars" is nothing more than a Western. And I have to disagree with the majority of you who think "Up" doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell of winning BP. This is the only film on the list that is both universally loved and praised. "Inglorious Basterds" may be loved, but it got mixed reviews. "Avatar" crowd seems divided, most loved it, but a quite a large minority (particularly women) found it just so-so. I'm assuming that's because the story wasn't anything we hadn't seen/read before. Neither "Avatar" nor "Blind Side" was nominated for screenplay. Lastly, I love George Clooney, but was sorry to see him get the nomination. His role in "Up In The Air" did not require much in the way of acting.
the 10 best pic noms is really pointless five works just fine. and how did revenge of the fallen not get and effects nomination. i know the movie was terrible, but the visuals were amazing
Geez, all this complaining of UP shouldn't be allowed in the BP category since it'll already get nominated in the Animated category. A film is a film people. Did you guys complain when foreign language films like Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon can was nominated in both Foreign language and BP?
@Thomas:
Yes, yes I did.
Maggie over Julianne Moore?How dare they sideline such a perfomance?Overall what a boring year,I saw all the nominees(except for Maggie G.I saw Julianne)I bet we all know the winners by now.The only suprise I predict will only be in the BP.BSA none whatsoever,but amazing how Nine didint follow up in Chicago's glitteratti.
Meryl Streep will win!
@Eric: District 9 isn't splitting votes with anybody. It's not getting any votes. And as for the other best picture noms who might steal votes from the favored, let me tell you, I bet you 95% of all the votes are between Avatar, Basterds, and Hurt Locker.
Where's Sam Rockwell? Really, George Clooney over him is such a let down, I know that Moon wasn't a "Academy type Film" but not at least throwing a nom his way for his "2" fantastic performance(s) is really a kick to the face.
The logic behind the "Best Animated Film" category is that animated films consistently rank among the most critically acclaimed year after year, and yet aside from "Best Picture" there is no other category to reward them in. Remember, each category's nominees are selected by people in that field, while the "Best Picture" ones are chosen by all.
A voice-over roll will never be able to compete with a full role in the acting categories… actors like to see themselves, and nominate accordingly. The directors of Live-Action out number the directors of animation by a huge margin, so again, they nominate what they understand. One would think that the art direction on the animated nominees would surely be considered for "Best Art Direction", but again, live-action art directors nominate for their own craft… And so on.
Before the Best Animated Film category was added, if an animated film didn't have a "Best Song" contender in it, it wasn't going to be up for any awards at all (the one exception being "Beauty and the Beast", which had the sole "best picture" nomination before "Up"… And it managed it because people were no longer voting for their own craft, just the movies they liked the most that year.)
Think about the sheer amount of work and artistic craft that goes into an animated film, and how culturally lasting many of them have become. With the number of them being created, the Academy had to give them a place to be recognized… but just because they finally have one category where they can be recognized doesn't mean that they should be ghetto-ized and not allowed to compete in "Best Picture" race.
Now personally, I would prefer it if they could come up with some kind of "Best Animation" award rather than calling it a "Best Animated Film" award, but I understand that it would probably be a headache to define.
@AJ: I can see the academy creating a few technical awards strictly for animation but that would make the show longer and as long as the television ratings matter like they do, the oscars will dictate their own rules according to the Powers at the ABC network. And since kids don't ever watch the oscars don't expect any favors for animated films anytime soon.
The only way Up will probably win Best Picture is due to a live action split vote.
The Hurt Locker won't win if Iraq is already tiring everyone out. One of the reasons Apocalypse Now didn't win in 1979 was that by then Vietnam was tiring everyone out. One of the reasons Saving Private Ryan didn't win in 1998 was that by then WW2 was tiring everyone out.
The Blind Side won't win as the academy will probably consider it to be a Forrest Gump wannabe.
Katharine Hepburn said in her biography-"It doesn't always go to the best technical performance, but to a popular actress in a popular movie."
This may be justification if Bullock wins over Streep.
@Jezza: I don't understand your comment. You said people are tired of the Iraq war, so The Hurt Locker won't win. Then you compared it to 'Apocolypse Now' not winning in 1979, I'm guessing because the Vietnam war ended only five years prior or because a Vietnam Movie won an oscar the year before (The Deer Hunter) so people were tired of Vietnam. But then you said it was one of the same reasons 'Saving Private Ryan' didn't win becasue people were tired of WWII? Why would they be tired of WWII? A war that took place more than fifty years before that movie came out? And what WWII movie came out before Private Ryan that would make the academy sick of WWII? Apocalypse Now didn't win because The Deer Hunter won the year before, so I might give you that. Private Ryan didn't win because for as great as it was, it was also a flawed film and the academy knew it. I'm not sure if the hurt locker will win but I guarantee that Kathryn Bigelow walks home with a golden statue.
I think what Jezza meant about WW2 tiring everyone out was partly down to Schindler's List and The English Patient winning Best Picture within 5 to 6 years prior to Saving Private Ryan.
"Up" getting nominated is a real waste. There is an entirely different category for animated films. That place was stolen from "Invictus".
@Central Ohio:
WHAT?!!? How was Saving Private Ryan a flawed film? Explain.
Up's nomination wasn't a waste. That movie delivered far more than Invictus imho. A film is a film from my point view. If an animated film, documentary, silent film, or foreign language film is good enough, then they shouldn't be left in the "ghetto" categories and be barred from competing for Best Picture. If they are barred then be fair and ghettoize everything. Call the award "Best live action english language feature film" and NOT Best Picture.
I'm good with the BP nominations except for Blindside. I would've preferred that spot go to (500)Days of Summer. All in all I'm good with the noms. I'm happy for District 9, Basterds, Avatar, and UP getting love from the academy. I'm looking forward to the show. Hopefully a mechanized Wall-E comes in to introduce UP. As stellar a year 2009 was for animation, NONE of them can carry Wall-E's cooler.
@Jack: The first half hour of Saving Private Ryan is probably the best 30 minutes of any war film. But the whole ending…why on earth do they stay and try to save that bridge? And Tom Hanks telling Matt Damon to "Earn this!" was stupid! Then it flashes forward to the old Man with his three hot blonde grandaughters. Then he has to ask his wife if he lived a good life? Well, he's got three granddaughters with big boobs, I guess he earned it. Terrible.
How on earth is any animated flick which is NOT "Up" supposed to win the Best Animated Picture category now? If one of them do beat Up wouldn't that be pretty contradictory? Up is the only movie out of the bunch nominated for BP, implying that the Academy has already decided it is the best animated movie, the only one deserving a BP nom. For me that is the biggest reason why Up getting to play in both pools is such an annoyance. That and the fact that it is Pixar's weakest(okay, second to Cars but still!). But then again, The Blind Side is up there as well so maybe the Oscars have become a joke after all.
@Vik:
THANK YOU
Except for it being Pixar's 2nd weakest, I quite enjoyed it.
Last night I watched the film "El secreto de sus ojos" (The secret in their eyes)… This movie is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING… It has it all!!!! Interesting story, emotion, love, excellent cinematography, nice music, amazing performances, an unexpected ending, it keeps you tensed all the time (you'll never get bored..), an amazing begining (you'll feel like "watching a poema unfold before your eyes") and a very interesting way of seeing behind people's behaviours and what they keep so well hidden…
BY FAR the best film nominated for "foreign language film" and much better that a lot -if not all- nominated for the "best film" category…
It should get the oscar on foreign language…! If "The white ribbon" wins, it will be a total disaster! This was sincerley the WORST film I've seen in my life!
Greetings from Greece!
Funny how the Avatar and UP bashers are now coming out of the woods. I expect the District 9 bashers coming very soon. Let me guess, disgruntled Trek fans or TDK fans?
The award is "Best Picture" meaning it encompasses a variety of films from foreign laguage, Documentaries, and yes, even Animation. like in baseball, MVP stands for Most valuable player, and those who believe pitchers shouldn't be eligible/win that award somehow can't embrace the simplicity of the case…Pitchers are players too.