Academy Award nominees announced
By Alexandra Heilbron on February 2, 2010 | 8 Comments
The Academy Award nominees were announced this morning, with The Hurt Locker and Avatar lead the race with nine nods, including Best Picture and Best Director for both. The Best Director race pits James Cameron (Avatar) against his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker). Bigelow has already won the Directors Guild Award in this year’s run up to the Oscars, though James Cameron won the Best Director Golden Globe. They’ll be up against Jason Reitman (Up in the Air), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) and Lee Daniels (Precious). This year, 10 pictures were nominated for Best Picture: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, The Hurt Locker, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up and Up in the Air. Up was also nominated in the Best Animated Feature category, against Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, and The Secret of Kells. Best Actress nominees are Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side), null (The Last Station), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) and Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia). Up for Best Actor are Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), George Clooney (Up in the Air), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Morgan Freeman (Invictus) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker). The 82nd Annual Academy Awards will be presented March 7 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Click here for a full list of nominees.
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10 Best Picture Nominations? WTF? This tells me none of the movies were all that good, and not that there were 10 movies that were so good….how do they go from 5 nominatios to 10?
They announced last year that they would go back to having 10 movies nominated for best picture, the way it was years ago, because they felt too many great pictures weren’t being included.
They have not done 10 films since 1943, I just checked….if its not broke why fix it? I mean with Up being nominated for Best Picture we already know it has won for Best Animated Film, why even bother nominating other films in the animation category? Ah well.
10 nominees for best picture? that looks excessive.
i just hope Avatar doesn’t win that…. it wasn’t THAT good.
»COUNTDOWN to the OSCARS!! 🙂 The MAGIC! The STARS! HURRAH! 🙂 GO “THE HURT LOCKER”! GO!! 8)
This is a outrage, no Heath Ledger nomination, how dear the acadamy not nominate him, I mean he played half a movie before he died, maybe they can give him a life time achievment award, or have the whole oscars focus around him, but give everyone else an award, oh wait, they did that last year…hhhmmm I know lets give M.J. something focus around him, then hand out awards for movies.
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Hi Maxipad! How are ya? Funny comment. You remind me a lot of my friend Randy, LOL.
I think we are going to see a lot of the same winners we saw from the Globes. I think Jeff Bridges will finally win, I think Sandra Bullock will take home best actress, I think James Cameron will win best director, but I’m unsure of Best Picture. There are always surprises at the Oscars guess we’ll have to wait and see.