Yayy! Oscar season has officially begun! I stayed up all bloody night o that I can be one of the first on the net to get the full list muahaha. So here you guys are, the nomination list of the 82nd Annual Academy Awards! BEST PICTURE
•Avatar
•The Blind Side
•District 9
•An Education
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•A Serious Man
•Up
•Up in the Air
BEST DIRECTOR
•Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
•James Cameron – Avatar
•Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
•Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
•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 IN A LEADING ROLE
•Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
•Helen Mirren - The Last Station
•Carey Mulligan - An Education
•Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
•Matt Damon – Invictus
•Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
•Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
•Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
•Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
•Penelope Cruz - Nine
•Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
•Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
•Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
•Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
•Neill Blomkamp and - District 9
•Nick Hornby - An Education
•Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche - In the Loop
•Geoffrey Fletcher - Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
•Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
•Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker
•Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
•Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon - The Messenger
•Joel and Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
•Pete Docter and Bob Peterson – Up
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
•Ajami
•El Secreto de sus Ojos
•The Milk of Sorrow
•Une Prophéte
•The White Ribbon
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
•Coraline
•Fantastic Mr. Fox
•The Princess and the Frog
•The Secret of the Kells
•Up
BEST ART DIRECTION
•Avatar
•The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
•Nine
•Sherlock Holmes
•The Young Victoria
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
•Avatar
•Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•The White Ribbon
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
•Bright Star
•Coco Before Chanel
•The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
•The Young Victoria
BEST FILM EDITING
•Avatar
•District 9
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
•Burma VJ
•The Cove
•Food, Inc.
•The Most Dangerous Man in America
•Which Way Home
BEST MAKEUP
•Il Divo
•Star Trek
•The Young Victoria
BEST 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
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
•Almost There from The Princess and the Frog
•Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog
•Loin de Paname from Paris 36
•Take It All from Nine
•The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart
BEST SOUND MIXING
•Avatar
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•Star Trek
•Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
BEST SOUND EDITING
•Avatar
•The Hurt Locker
•Inglourious Basterds
•Star Trek
•Up
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
•Avatar
•District 9
•Star Trek
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 à la Berlin
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
•French Roast
•Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
•The Lady and the Reaper
•Logorama
•A Matter of Loaf and Death
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
•The Door
•Instead of Abracadabra
•Kavi
•Miracle Fish
•The New Tenants
This year's nominations are kinda epic. Obscure movies like In The Loop and Ajami got nominated! And one particular nominee, Secret of Kells, a film that I've only seen through a trailer but I am absolutely in love with that movie already. Just goes to show the Oscars still have integrity left in them unlike the shitty Grammys.
Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead off the nominations with 9 Oscar nods each. Inglorious Basterds is second with 8 nominations and Precious and Up In The Air have 6 noms each.
I never thought they'd have the guts to do it but for the first time in a long time the Academy is recognizing kick ass movies like District muthafuckin 9!! And Up makes history by being the 2nd animated film being nominated for both Best Picture and Best Animated Feature since Beauty and the Beast.
Rounding off the Best Picture category, An Education which I feel is quite deserving and A Serious Man which I have yet to watch.
A few things I don't like about the list of nominees... Why isn't 500 Days Of Summer nominated at all? Same goes for Moon, why isn't Sam Rockwell nominated for Best Actor? And what's that turd called The Blind Side doing in the Best Picture category when movies like 500 Days of Summer and Moon are completely shut out of the awards list?
The Academy Award winners will be announced on March 7th!