2 February, 2010
Source: Screen Daily
James Cameron’s Avatar and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker score nine nominations each.There were few surprises in the nominations announcement for the 82nd Academy Awards on February 2, with Avatar and The Hurt Locker taking nine nominations apiece.Jeremy Renner’s best actor nomination for The Hurt Locker was perhaps the main surprise in acting categories, while Cameron’s omission in the original screenplay category was notable.Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds took eight nominations including best picture, director and screenplay, while Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air took six including best picture, director, screenplay, actor for George Clooney and two in the supporting actress category for Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.Meanwhile, the ten best picture field only saw a couple of surprise omissions Clint Eastwood’s Invictus, Star Trek and Nine among them and perhaps one surprise inclusion in the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man, which also won a screenplay nod for the oft-celebrated siblings.As expected, Pixar’s Up became only the second animated feature to score a best picture nomination (the first since Beauty And The Beast in 1991) and the first to secure picture and animated feature nominations. Up was also nominated in screenplay and score categories.Lee Daniels’ Precious: Based On The Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire also got nominations in lead categories best picture and director for Daniels, best screenplay, actress for Gabourey Sidibe and supporting actress for Mo’Nique. Precious had a tally of six nominations, also named in the editing category.Acting favourites Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart and Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side sailed through to nominations in their respective categories, and The Blind Side also scored a best picture nod.Meryl Streep, meanwhile, won her 13th best actress nomination and her 16th in total for playing Julia Child in Julie & Julia.In the foreign language category, the year’s big winners The White Ribbon from Germany and A Prophet from France both got through alongside Ajami from Israel, The Milk Of Sorrow from Peru and The Secret In Their Eyes from Argentina. Sony Pictures Classics has US rights to three of them – The White Ribbon, A Prophet and The Secret In Their Eyes.European talent scored highly. UK producers Finola Dywer and Amanda Posey were nominated for An Education which also won a nomination for lead actress Carey Mulligan and screenwriter Nick Hornby.Helen Mirren scored her fourth Oscar nomination for The Last Station, Colin Firth his first for A Single Man, Germany’s Christoph Waltz his first in the supporting actor category for Inglourious Basterds – for which he is runaway favourite to win - and Spain’s Penelope Cruz received her third for Nine.Meanwhile, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche won an adapted screenplay nod for UK comedy In The Loop, which was released in the US by IFC Films. Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger was also nominated for his black and white work on The White Ribbon.Tomm Moore’s Irish animated film The Secret Of Kells was a surprise entry in the best animated feature category alongside Disney heavyweights Up and The Princess And The Frog, Coraline and Fantastic Mr Fox. Kells knocked out other studio movies such as Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and Monsters Vs Aliens.Veteran Canadian actor Christopher Plummer scored his first Oscar nomination for playing Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station.Kathryn Bigelow, director of The Hurt Locker becomes only the fourth woman in Oscar history to be nominated in the best director category. Having won the DGA prize last weekend, she could easily become the first to win.Ironically Peter Jackson was nominated as a producer of best picture nominee District 9 directed by Niell Blomkamp; his own film The Lovely Bones took only one nomination for Stanley Tucci’s supporting performance.In the documentary category, favourites The Cove and Food Inc were nominated alongside Burma VJ, the Danish film from Anders Ostergaard, Rebecca Camissa’s Which Way Home, which is a Mexico/US co-production, and Judith Erlich and Rick Goldsmith’s The Most Dangerous Man In The World: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers.Actor in a Leading RoleJeff Bridges, Crazy HeartGeorge Clooney, Up in the AirColin Firth, A Single ManMorgan Freeman, InvictusJeremy Renner, The Hurt LockerActor in a Supporting RoleMatt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last StationStanley Tucci, The Lovely BonesChristoph Waltz, Inglourious BasterdsActress in a Leading RoleSandra Bullock, The Blind SideHelen Mirren, The Last StationCarey Mulligan, An EducationGabourey Sidibe, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by SapphireMeryl Streep, Julie & JuliaActress in a Supporting RolePenélope Cruz, NineVera Farmiga, Up in the AirMaggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy HeartAnna Kendrick, Up In The AirMo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by SapphireAnimated Feature FilmCoraline, Henry SelickFantastic Mr. Fox, Wes AndersonThe Princess and the Frog, John Musker and Ron ClementsThe Secret of Kells, Tomm MooreUp, Pete DocterArt DirectionAvatar, Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim SinclairThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline SmithNine, Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon SimSherlock Holmes, Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie SpencerThe Young Victoria, Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie GrayCinematographyAvatar, Mauro FioreHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bruno DelbonnelThe Hurt Locker, Barry AckroydInglourious Basterds, Robert RichardsonThe White Ribbon Christian BergerCostume DesignBright Star Janet PattersonCoco before Chanel Catherine LeterrierThe Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Monique PrudhommeNine Colleen AtwoodThe Young Victoria Sandy PowellDirectingJames Cameron, AvatarKathryn Bigelow, The Hurt LockerQuentin Tarantino, Inglourious BasterdsLee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by SapphireJason Reitman, Up in the AirDocumentary (Feature)Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-MøllerThe Cove Nominees to be determinedFood, Inc. Robert Kenner and Elise PearlsteinThe Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Judith Ehrlich and Rick GoldsmithWhich Way Home Rebecca CammisaDocumentary (Short Subject)China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province Jon Alpert and Matthew O’NeillThe Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, Daniel Junge and Henry AnsbacherThe Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, Steven Bognar and Julia ReichertMusic by Prudence Roger Ross Williams and Elinor BurkettRabbit à la Berlin Bartek Konopka and Anna WydraFilm EditingAvatar, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James CameronDistrict 9, Julian ClarkeThe Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris InnisInglourious Basterds, Sally MenkePrecious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Joe KlotzForeign Language FilmAjami, IsraelThe Secret In Their Eyes, ArgentinaThe Milk of Sorrow PeruA Prophet, FranceThe White Ribbon, GermanyMakeupIl Divo, Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio SodanoStar Trek, Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel HarlowThe Young Victoria Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny ShircoreMusic (Original Score)Avatar James HornerFantastic Mr. Fox Alexandre DesplatThe Hurt Locker Marco Beltrami and Buck SandersSherlock Holmes, Hans ZimmerUp, Michael GiacchinoMusic (Original Song)Almost There from The Princess and the Frog, Music and Lyric by Randy NewmanDown in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog, Music and Lyric by Randy NewmanLoin de Paname from Paris 36, Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank ThomasTake It All, from Nine, Music and Lyric by Maury YestonThe Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart, Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone BurnettBest PictureAvatar James Cameron and Jon Landau, ProducersThe Blind Side Nominees to be determinedDistrict 9, Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, ProducersAn Education Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, ProducersThe Hurt Locker, Nominees to be determinedInglourious Basterds, Lawrence Bender, ProducerPrecious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, ProducersA Serious Man Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, ProducersUp Jonas Rivera, ProducerUp in the Air Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, ProducersShort Film (Animated)French Roast, Fabrice O. JoubertGranny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’ConnellThe Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) Javier Recio GraciaLogorama, Nicolas SchmerkinA Matter of Loaf and Death, Nick ParkShort Film (Live Action)The Door, Juanita Wilson and James FlynnInstead of Abracadabra, Patrik Eklund and Mathias FjellströmKavi, Gregg HelveyMiracle Fish Luke Doolan and Drew BaileyThe New Tenants,Joachim Back and Tivi MagnussonSound EditingAvatar, Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates WhittleThe Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. OttossonInglourious Basterds, Wylie StatemanStar Trek, Mark Stoeckinger and Alan RankinUp, Michael Silvers and Tom MyersSound MixingAvatar, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony JohnsonThe Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray BeckettInglourious Basterds, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark UlanoStar Trek, Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. DevlinTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey PattersonVisual EffectsAvatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. JonesDistrict 9, Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt AitkenStar Trek, Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt DaltonWriting (Adapted Screenplay)District 9, Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri TatchellAn Education, Screenplay by Nick HornbyIn the Loop Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony RochePrecious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, Screenplay by Geoffrey FletcherUp in the Air, Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon TurnerWriting (Original Screenplay)The Hurt Locker, Written by Mark BoalInglourious 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
