2010 Academy Award Nominations

The 2010 Oscar nominations were announced yesterday morning. This year there are TEN best picture nominations so I have my work cut out for me. AMC Theaters has a Best Picture Showcase every year where you can see all five nominees in one day. According to their Facebook page, they will be revealing this year's showcase plans by the end of the week. I'm anxious to see when they will do – I'm thinking they'll spread it over two days.

This list doesn't have every category, just the ones I consider to be the major ones. The movies I've already seen are in bold:

BEST PICTURE

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The Hurt Locker
Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Up in the Air
Inglourious Basterds
Up
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
A Serious Man

BEST ACTOR

George Clooney – Up in the Air
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
Colin Firth – A Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

BEST ACTRESS

Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education

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 SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air
Mo'Nique – Precious
Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air
Penelope Cruz – Nine
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart

DIRECTOR

Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
James Cameron – Avatar
Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Jason Reitman – Up in the Air

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Up
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious
Up in the Air

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Ajami
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon

BEST FILM EDITING

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

ART DIRECTION

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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

CINEMATOGRAPHY

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon