Oscar Nominations

Oscar nominations were announced this morning with The Hurt Locker and Avatar leading the pack with 9 nominations each. District 9 made a strong showing and, as I "non-predicted" yesterday, The Blind Side made it into the Best Picture race. All in all I managed to predict 78 out of 106 nominees (I didn't venture any guesses in the short film categories).

Here they are, the nominees:

Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
James Cameron, Avatar
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jason Reitman, Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds

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

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actress
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up In The Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air
Mo'Nique, Precious

Best Supporting Actor
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds

Best Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
District 9
An Education
In The Loop
Precious
Up In The Air

Best Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Precious

Best Cinematography
Avatar
Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
The White Ribbon

Best Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Best Makeup
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Best Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Best Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglorious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Original Score
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Best Original Song
"The Weary Kind," Crazy Heart
"Take It All," Nine
"Loin de Paname," Paris 36
"Almost There," The Princess and the Frog
"Down In New Orleans," The Princess and the Frog

Best Foreign Language Film
Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto Sus Ojos (Argentina)
A Prophet (France)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

Best Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Best Animated Feature
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
Secret of Kells
Up

Best Documentary (Short)
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 a la Berlin

Best Animated Short
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Live Action Short
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants