Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -~~~NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY - 82ND AWARDS ~~~-
Performance by an actor in a leading role
* Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
* George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
* Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (The Weinstein Company)
* Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
* Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
* Matt Damon in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
* Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
* Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)
* Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
* Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
* Helen Mirren in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
* Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
* Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
* Penélope Cruz in "Nine" (The Weinstein Company)
* Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
* Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
* Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
* Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
Best animated feature film of the year
* "Coraline" (Focus Features) Henry Selick
* "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson
* "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) John Musker and Ron Clements
* "The Secret of Kells" (GKIDS) Tomm Moore
* "Up" (Walt Disney) Pete Docter
Achievement in art direction
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
*"The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro
Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
*"Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
* "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
* "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Art Direction: Patrice Vermette
Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Achievement in cinematography
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore
* "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.) Bruno Delbonnel
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Barry Ackroyd
* "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Robert Richardson
*"The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) Christian Berger
Achievement in costume design
* "Bright Star" (Apparition) Janet Patterson
* "Coco before Chanel" (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier
* "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Monique Prudhomme
* "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Colleen Atwood
* "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Sandy Powell
Achievement in directing
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Cameron
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow
* "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Quentin Tarantino
* "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Lee Daniels
* "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Jason Reitman
Best documentary feature
* "Burma VJ" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
A Magic Hour Films Production Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
* "The Cove" (Roadside Attractions)
An Oceanic Preservation Society Production Nominees to be determined
* "Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures)
A Robert Kenner Films Production Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
* "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"
A Kovno Communications Production Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
* "Which Way Home"
A Mr. Mudd Production Rebecca Cammisa
Best documentary short subject
* "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province"
A Downtown Community Television Center Production Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
* "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner"
A Just Media Production Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
* "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant"
A Community Media Production Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
* "Music by Prudence"
An iThemba Production Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
* "Rabbit à la Berlin" (Deckert Distribution)
An MS Films Production Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Achievement in film editing
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
* "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Clarke
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
* "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Sally Menke
* "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Joe Klotz
Best foreign language film of the year
* "Ajami"(Kino International)
An Inosan Production Israel
* "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Haddock Films Production Argentina
* "The Milk of Sorrow"
A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela Production Peru
* "Un Prophète" (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production France
* "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics)
An X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production Germany
Achievement in makeup
* "Il Divo" (MPI Media Group through Music Box) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
* "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
* "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Horner
* "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Alexandre Desplat
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
* "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
* "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
* "Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
* "Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
* "Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" (Sony Pictures Classics) Music by Reinhardt Wagner
Lyric by Frank Thomas
* "Take It All" from "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
* "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best motion picture of the year
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox)
A Lightstorm Entertainment Production James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
* "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
An Alcon Entertainment Production Nominees to be determined
* "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
A Block/Hanson Production Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
* "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)
A Voltage Pictures Production Nominees to be determined
* "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)
A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production Lawrence Bender, Producer
* "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
* "A Serious Man" (Focus Features)
A Working Title Films Production Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
* "Up" (Walt Disney)
A Pixar Production Jonas Rivera, Producer
* "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
A Montecito Picture Company Production Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
Best animated short film
* "French Roast"
A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films Production Fabrice O. Joubert
* "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" (Brown Bag Films)
A Brown Bag Films Production Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
* "The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)"
A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production Javier Recio Gracia
* "Logorama" (Autour de Minuit)
An Autour de Minuit Production Nicolas Schmerkin
* "A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Aardman Animations)
An Aardman Animations Production Nick Park
Best live action short film
* "The Door" (Network Ireland Television)
An Octagon Films Production Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
* "Instead of Abracadabra" (The Swedish Film Institute)
A Directörn & Fabrikörn Production Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
* "Kavi"
A Gregg Helvey Production Gregg Helvey
* "Miracle Fish" (Premium Films)
A Druid Films Production Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
* "The New Tenants"
A Park Pictures and M & M Production Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Achievement in sound editing
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson
* "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Wylie Stateman
* "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
* "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Achievement in sound mixing
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
* "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
* "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
* "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount) Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Achievement in visual effects
* "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
* "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
* "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Adapted screenplay
* "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
* "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by Nick Hornby
* "In the Loop" (IFC Films) Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
* "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
* "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Original screenplay
* "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Written by Mark Boal
* "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Written by Quentin Tarantino
* "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
* "A Serious Man" (Focus Features) Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
* "Up" (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy
