Oscar Nominations – The Hurt Locker and Avatar Lead with 9 Each

Best Picture

* “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
* “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined
* “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
* “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
* “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined
* “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
* “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
* “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer
* “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role

* Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
* George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
* Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
* Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
* Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”

Actor in a Supporting Role

* Matt Damon in “Invictus”
* Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”
* Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”
* Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
* Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

Actress in a Leading Role

* Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
* Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”
* Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
* Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
* Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”

Actress in a Supporting Role

* Penélope Cruz in “Nine”
* Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”
* Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
* Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”
* Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

Animated Feature Film

* “Coraline” Henry Selick
* “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson
* “The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements
* “The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore
* “Up” Pete Docter

Art Direction

* “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
* “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
* “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
* “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
* “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Cinematography

* “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

Costume Design

* “Bright Star” Janet Patterson
* “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier
* “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme
* “Nine” Colleen Atwood
* “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

Directing

* “Avatar” James Cameron
* “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow
* “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino
* “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels
* “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman

Documentary (Feature)

* “Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
* “The Cove” Nominees to be determined
* “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
* “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
* “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa

Documentary (Short Subject)

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

Film Editing

* “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: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz

Foreign Language Film

* “Ajami” Israel
* “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” Argentina
* “The Milk of Sorrow” Peru
* “Un Prophète” France
* “The White Ribbon” Germany

Makeup

* “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

Music (Original Score)

* “Avatar” James Horner
* “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat
* “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
* “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer
* “Up” Michael Giacchino

Music (Original Song)

* “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

Short Film (Animated)

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

Short Film (Live Action)

* “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
* “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
* “Kavi” Gregg Helvey
* “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
* “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Sound Editing

* “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

Sound Mixing

* “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

Visual Effects

* “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

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

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

Writing (Original Screenplay)

* “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal
* “Inglourious Basterds” Written by Quentin Tarantino
* “The Messenger” Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
* “A Serious Man” Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
* “Up” Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

Ajami

Inosan Production (Kino International)

* Best foreign language film (Israel)

Avatar

Lightstorm Entertainment Production (20th Century Fox)

* Art direction
* Cinematography
* Directing
* Film editing
* Original score
* Best picture
* Sound editing
* Sound mixing
* Visual effects

The Blind Side

Alcon Entertainment Production (Warner Bros.)

* Sandra Bullock – Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Best picture

Bright Star

Jan Chapman/Bright Star Films Production (Apparition)

* Costume design

Burma VJ

Magic Hour Films Production (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

* Documentary feature

Coco before Chanel

Haut et Court Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

* Costume design

Coraline

LAIKA Production (Focus Features)

* Best animated feature film

The Cove

Oceanic Preservation Society Production (Roadside Attractions)

* Documentary feature

Crazy Heart

Informant Media/Butcher’s Run Films Production (Fox Searchlight)

* Jeff Bridges – Performance by an actor in a leading role
* Maggie Gyllenhaal – Performance by an actress in a supporting role
* Original song Р“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)”

District 9

Block/Hanson Production (Sony Pictures Releasing)

* Film editing
* Best picture2
* Visual effects
* Adapted screenplay

An Education

Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

* Carey Mulligan – Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Best picture
* Adapted screenplay

El Secreto de Sus Ojos

Haddock Films Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

* Best foreign language film (Argentina)

Fantastic Mr. Fox

American Empirical Production (20th Century Fox)

* Best animated feature film
* Original score

Food, Inc.,

Robert Kenner Films Production (Magnolia Pictures)

* Documentary feature

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Warner Bros. Production (Warner Bros.)

* Cinematography

The Hurt Locker

Voltage Pictures Production (Summit Entertainment)

* Jeremy Renner – Performance by an actor in a leading role
* Cinematography
* Directing
* Film editing
* Original score
* Best picture
* Sound editing
* Sound mixing
* Original screenplay

Il Divo

Indigo Film/Lucky Red/Parco Film/Babe Films Production (MPI Media Group through Music Box)

* Makeup

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Poo Poo Pictures Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

* Art direction
* Costume design

In the Loop

Loop Film/BBC Films and UK Film Council in association with Aramid Entertainment Production (IFC Films)

* Adapted screenplay

Inglourious Basterds

Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production (The Weinstein Company)

* Christoph Waltz – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Cinematography
* Directing
* Film editing
* Best picture
* Sound editing
* Sound mixing
* Original screenplay

Invictus

Liberty Pictures Production (Warner Bros.)

* Morgan Freeman – Performance by an actor in a leading role
* Matt Damon – Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Julie & Julia

Columbia Pictures Production (Sony Pictures Releasing)

* Meryl Streep – Performance by an actress in a leading role

The Last Station

Egoli Tossell Film/Zephyr Films Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

* Christopher Plummer – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Helen Mirren – Performance by an actress in a leading role

The Lovely Bones

Wingnut Films Production (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)

* Stanley Tucci – Performance by an actor in a supporting role

The Messenger

All the King’s Horses Production (Oscilloscope Laboratories)

* Woody Harrelson – Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Original screenplay

The Milk of Sorrow

Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela Production

* Best foreign language film (Peru)

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

Kovno Communications Production

* Documentary feature

Nine

Weinstein Brothers/Marc Platt/Lucamar/Relativity Media Production (The Weinstein Company)

* Penélope Cruz РPerformance by an actress in a supporting role
* Art direction
* Costume design
* Original song Р“Take It All”

Paris 36

Galatée Films Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

* Original song Р“Loin de Paname”

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Lee Daniels Entertainment/ Smokewood Entertainment Production (Lionsgate)

* Gabourey Sidibe – Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Mo’Nique РPerformance by an actress in a supporting role
* Directing
* Film editing
* Best picture
* Adapted screenplay

The Princess and the Frog

Walt Disney Pictures Production (Walt Disney)

* Best animated feature film
* Original song Р“Almost There”
* Original song Р“Down in New Orleans”

The Secret of Kells

Cartoon Saloon/Les Armateurs/Vivi Film Production (GKIDS)

* Best animated feature film

A Serious Man

Working Title Films Production (Focus Features)

* Best picture
* Original screenplay

Sherlock Holmes

Warner Bros. UK Services Production (Warner Bros.)

* Art direction
* Original score

A Single Man

Fade to Black and Depth of Field Production (The Weinstein Company)

* Colin Firth – Performance by an actor in a leading role

Star Trek

Bad Robot Production (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)

* Makeup
* Sound editing
* Sound mixing
* Visual effects

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Don Murphy/Tom DeSanto/di Bonaventura Pictures/Ian Bryce Production (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount)

* Sound mixing

Un Prophète

Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

* Best foreign language film (France)

Up

Pixar Production (Walt Disney)

* Best animated feature film
* Original score
* Best picture
* Sound editing
* Original screenplay

Up in the Air

Montecito Picture Company Production (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)

* George Clooney – Performance by an actor in a leading role
* Vera Farmiga – Performance by an actress in a supporting role
* Anna Kendrick – Performance by an actress in a supporting role
* Directing
* Best picture
* Adapted screenplay

Which Way Home

Mr. Mudd Production

* Documentary feature

The White Ribbon

X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production (Sony Pictures Classics)

* Cinematography
* Best foreign language film (Germany)

The Young Victoria

GK Films Production (Apparition)

* Art direction
* Costume design
* Makeup