The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed its nominees for this year's Oscar at 5:38 Pacific Time Tuesday morning, with Academy President Tom Sherak and previously nominated actress Anne Hathaway making the announcement.
The Academy Awards are returning to having ten films in the Best Motion Picture category for the first time since 1943. The nominations included a first for Sandra Bullock in the Best Actress category and Meryl Streep's sixteenth. Exes James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow were nominated in the same category for Best Director.
Shut-out of the major categories, aside from Penelope Cruz' nomination for Supporting Actress, was Rob Marshall's "Nine."
Nominated for both Best Picture and Best Director is James Cameron's "Avatar," the highest grossing film of all time.
Here are the nominees in the major categories:
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 - Inglourious Basterds
Best Actress:
Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Helen Mirren - The Last Station
Carey Mulligan - An Education
Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia
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 Director:
James Cameron - Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels - Precious
Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
Best Picture:
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on March 7th at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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As for the rest, I predict a romping by Precious. I can't imagine any other film, performance or writing even coming close . I was surprised no nomination for Mariah. I think it's a setup in a way because Monique should have been nominated for Best Actress as well as Gabourey Sidibe. She'd have won, so I'm guessing they put one each into the two catagories. Why can't they give as many "bests" as are warranted? I've never understood the logic of that, sometimes there's more than one. And the catagories need updating. SORELY. you can't put a comedic performance against a dramatic one, the gravitas takes the cake every time.
You know, if your picks pan out, you can expect a PM from me for some PowerBall Numbers.
I loved kill bill and can't understand how the same man made the same movie.
I'm betting on HollywollMeryl Streep and George for Best Actress/Actor, although I'd love to see Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges repeat their Golden Globe victories. Not getting my hopes up after Mickey Rourke was robbed by Sean Penn after Rourke won the Golden Globe. Swore I'd never watch another Academy Awards show after that.
Also, Avatar will probably get all the tech awards and Best Director and Picture after racking in all that money.
A Serious Man came out on DVD today. Inglorius Basterds, Hurt Locker, Julie and Julia (Streep), and UP are already out on DVD.
My two cents: Inglorius Basterds is brilliant. Also, I cannot understand how Viggo Mortensen was overlooked for The Road.
I would love Meryl Streep to win. Yeah, she's been nominated so many times but she rarely wins. I think "Julie and Julia" was almost mediocre. But her performace was so rich, as usual. I don't understand why everyone calls her our greatest actress but she loses most of the time. What do you think her odds are? Pretty slim? I thought so.
Time for her, at aged 60, to get the glory prize.