Just a couple of hours until the results unfold. Here's the nominees:

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
* James Cameron (for Avatar)
* Kathryn Bigelow (for The Hurt Locker)
* Lee Daniels (for Precious)
* Jason Reitman (for Up in the Air)
* Quentin Tarantino (for Inglourious Basterds)

Best Actor
* Jeff Bridges (as Bad Blake in Crazy Heart)
* George Clooney (as Ryan Bingham in Up in the Air)
* Colin Firth (as George Falconer in A Single Man)
* Morgan Freeman (as Nelson Mandela in Invictus)
* Jeremy Renner (as Sgt. William James in The Hurt Locker)

Best Actress
* Sandra Bullock (as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side)
* Helen Mirren (as Sofya Tolstoy in The Last Station)
* Carey Mulligan (as Jenny Miller in An Education)
* Gabourey Sidibe (as Claireece "Precious" Jones in Precious)
* Meryl Streep (as Julia Child in Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor
* Matt Damon (as François Pienaar in Invictus)
* Woody Harrelson (as Capt. Tony Stone in The Messenger)
* Christopher Plummer (as Leo Tolstoy in The Last Station)
* Stanley Tucci (as George Harvery in The Lovely Bones)
* Christoph Waltz (as Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress
* Penélope Cruz (as Carla Albanese in Nine)
* Vera Farmiga (as Alex Goran in Up in the Air)
* Maggie Gyllenhaal (as Jean Craddock in Crazy Heart)
* Anna Kendrick (as Natalie Keener in Up in the Air)
* Mo'Nique (as Mary Lee Johnston in Precious)

Best Original Screenplay
* The Hurt Locker (by Mark Boal)
* Inglourious Basterds (by Quentin Tarantino)
* The Messenger (by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman)
* A Serious Man (by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
* Up (by Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter)

Best Adapted Screenplay
* District 9 (by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, adapted from Alive in Joburg by Neill Blomkamp)
* An Education (by Nick Hornby, adapted from An Education by Lynn Barber)
* In the Loop (from Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, adapted from The Thick of It by Armando Iannucci)
* Precious (by Geoffrey Fletcher, adapted from Push by Sapphire)
* Up in the Air (by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, adapted from Up in the Air by Walter Kirn)

Best Animated Feature
* Coraline
* Fantastic Mr. Fox
* The Princess and the Frog
* The Secret of Kells
* Up

Best Foreign Language Film
* Ajami (from Israel, by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani)
* El Secreto de Sus Ojos (The Secret in Their Eyes, from Argentina, by Juan José Campanella) (yay)
* La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow, from Peru, by Claudia Llosa)
* Un Prophète (A Prophet, from France, by Jacques Audiard)
* Das Weiße Band (The White Ribbon, from Germany, by Michael Haneke)

The other minor awards are listed down here.

What are your picks, people? Personally, I think either Avatar or The Hurt Locker for Best Picture, James Cameron for Best Director, Up for Best Animated Feature, and The Secret in Their Eyes for Best Foreign Language Film (seriously, not just because it's Argentinian, it's an excellent movie.) The rest, I can't say, since, well, I really can't say.

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Last edited by DeMatador on Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:13 am, edited 1 time in total.

Who I'm rooting for:

Best Picture: Avatar, District 9, or Inglourious Basterds
Best Director: Quentin Tarantino or James Cameron
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Original Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds
Best Adapted Screenplay: District 9

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I don't care for the outcomes in the other categories.

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Not really sure I have any strong preferences, but I'd like Up to win something. Haven't seen Princess and the Frog, but from what I hear, it deserves an award too. And Coraline was fantastic. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if I'm disappointed.

My guess is that Avatar will probably sweep (and I will be.)

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Up won Best Animated Film :D

Yeah, I'm watching this right now, and next I'm hoping to see if Precious wins anything. That movie was brilliant.

WOO THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES WON!!!

And The Hurt Locker's gonna beat Avatar at Best Movie. Mark my words.

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In the beginning, why were Alec Baldwin and George Clooney staring at each other awkwardly?...

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i hope to god avatar doesn't win best picture

Turns out you're right! Good call. Not expecting that! I've gotta go see it now.

So ha ha Avatar did NOT sweep. XP I'm happy Star Trek won SOMETHING, even if it was for Makeup with shitty competition. And yay for Up and Cristoph Waltz!

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Well........ at least Precious didn't win for Best Pic or Best Actress. Well, I'm glad Waltz got his award. Good job for Michael Giacchino for Best Original Score too..... I loved his music ever since he did the Medal of Honor soundtracks.

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Christoph Waltz couldn't be more adorable. "That's an uber bingo."

I didn't really love "The Hurt Locker," but I'm happy Avatar didn't win, just because I never would have heard the end of it from my fiancé.

Because they are both that awesome.

Poor Cameron went home empty-handed. No Best Director nor Picture. Just a couple of technical awards that it couldn't have NOT won. In fact, I think that The Hurt Locker won as much or even more technical awards than Avatar, "the technical masterpiece of cinema."

I still can't believe the Argentinian film beat The White Ribbon. Second Oscar we get for Foreign Picture, and the entire country is ecstasic.

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Aww, that's great! ^_^

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I really wanted The Princess and The Frog to get the best animated award -_-

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawa ... inees.html

-SS

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Hooray for Up! Doug by himself would have won it. Sadly I haven't seen Hurt Locker to judge it, but thankfully Avatar didn't win best picture

You've got to feel really bad for him because the director of Hurt Locker was Cameron's ex-wife. :P

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I had no idea! That makes The Hurt Locker's victory about a thousand times cooler.

Frankly, I'm disappointed Hurt Locker won so much. It was a good movie, but the Academy seems to be holding it's long standing tradition of trying to be hip and edgey and pick an off the wall choice. I didn't think it was best picture material, I was really rooting for Up In the Air for best picture. Avatar deserved best director, and I'm not going to make anymore judgment calls from there.

Seems the Oscars will never cease to disappoint.

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I agree. Avatar definitely wasn't my Best Picture candidate, but Best Director HAD to be Cameron. Best Picture should have been Up in the Air or Up. Yes, Up. It was an excellent movie, not only an excellent animated movie. It would have great if it had won.

Frankly, I would rant, but since The Secret in Their Eyes won, I just can't criticize this Oscars. Also, it seems like it's going to open in the US in April!

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I still can't believe the Argentinian film beat The White Ribbon. Second Oscar we get for Foreign Picture, and the entire country is ecstasic.[/quote]


I heard that The White Ribbon isn't that good, but i havent seen it so i can't really say.
Campanella seems to be a really good director, he even directed some House M.D. episodes. By the way im argentinean too.

P.S:im sorry if my english isn't very good