Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
– NOMINATIONS BY CATEGORY – 82ND AWARDS –
Performance by an actor in a leading role
- Jeff Bridges in « Crazy Heart » (Fox Searchlight)
- George Clooney in « Up in the Air » (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
- Colin Firth in « A Single Man » (The Weinstein Company)
- Morgan Freeman in « Invictus » (Warner Bros.)
- Jeremy Renner in « The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
- Matt Damon in « Invictus » (Warner Bros.)
- Woody Harrelson in « The Messenger » (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
- Christopher Plummer in « The Last Station » (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Stanley Tucci in « The Lovely Bones » (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)
- Christoph Waltz in « Inglourious Basterds » (The Weinstein Company)
Performance by an actress in a leading role
- Sandra Bullock in « The Blind Side » (Warner Bros.)
- Helen Mirren in « The Last Station » (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Carey Mulligan in « An Education » (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Gabourey Sidibe in « Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire » (Lionsgate)
- Meryl Streep in « Julie & Julia » (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
- Penélope Cruz in « Nine » (The Weinstein Company)
- Vera Farmiga in « Up in the Air » (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal in « Crazy Heart » (Fox Searchlight)
- Anna Kendrick in « Up in the Air » (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
- Mo’Nique in « Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire » (Lionsgate)
Best animated feature film of the year
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« Coraline » (Focus Features) Henry Selick -
« Fantastic Mr. Fox » (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson « The Princess and the Frog » (Walt Disney) John Musker and Ron Clements « The Secret of Kells » (GKIDS) Tomm Moore « Up » (Walt Disney) Pete Docter Achievement in art direction
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair -
« The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus » (Sony Pictures Classics) Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro
Set Decoration: Caroline Smith -
« Nine » (The Weinstein Company) Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gordon Sim -
« Sherlock Holmes » (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer -
« The Young Victoria » (Apparition) Art Direction: Patrice Vermette
Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Achievement in cinematography
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore -
« Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince » (Warner Bros.) Bruno Delbonnel -
« The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment) Barry Ackroyd -
« Inglourious Basterds » (The Weinstein Company) Robert Richardson -
« The White Ribbon » (Sony Pictures Classics) Christian Berger
Achievement in costume design
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« Bright Star » (Apparition) Janet Patterson -
« Coco before Chanel » (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier -
« The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus » (Sony Pictures Classics) Monique Prudhomme -
« Nine » (The Weinstein Company) Colleen Atwood -
« The Young Victoria » (Apparition) Sandy Powell
Achievement in directing
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox) James Cameron -
« The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow -
« Inglourious Basterds » (The Weinstein Company) Quentin Tarantino -
« Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire » (Lionsgate) Lee Daniels -
« Up in the Air » (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Jason Reitman
Best documentary feature
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« Burma VJ » (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
A Magic Hour Films ProductionAnders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller -
« The Cove » (Roadside Attractions)
An Oceanic Preservation Society ProductionNominees to be determined -
« Food, Inc. » (Magnolia Pictures)
A Robert Kenner Films ProductionRobert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein -
« The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers »
A Kovno Communications ProductionJudith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith -
« Which Way Home »
A Mr. Mudd ProductionRebecca Cammisa
Best documentary short subject
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« China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province »
A Downtown Community Television Center ProductionJon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill -
« The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner »
A Just Media ProductionDaniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher -
« The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant »
A Community Media ProductionSteven Bognar and Julia Reichert -
« Music by Prudence »
An iThemba ProductionRoger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett -
« Rabbit à la Berlin » (Deckert Distribution)
An MS Films ProductionBartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Achievement in film editing
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox) Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron -
« District 9 » (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Clarke -
« The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski and Chris Innis -
« Inglourious Basterds » (The Weinstein Company) Sally Menke -
« Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire » (Lionsgate) Joe Klotz
Best foreign language film of the year
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« Ajami »(Kino International)
An Inosan ProductionIsrael -
« El Secreto de Sus Ojos » (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Haddock Films ProductionArgentina -
« The Milk of Sorrow »
A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela ProductionPeru -
« Un Prophète » (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films ProductionFrance -
« The White Ribbon » (Sony Pictures Classics)
An X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red ProductionGermany
Achievement in makeup
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« Il Divo » (MPI Media Group through Music Box) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano -
« Star Trek » (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow -
« The Young Victoria » (Apparition) Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox) James Horner -
« Fantastic Mr. Fox » (20th Century Fox) Alexandre Desplat -
« The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment) Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders -
« Sherlock Holmes » (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer -
« Up » (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
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« Almost There » from « The Princess and the Frog » (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman -
« Down in New Orleans » from « The Princess and the Frog » (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman -
« Loin de Paname » from « Paris 36 » (Sony Pictures Classics) Music by Reinhardt Wagner
Lyric by Frank Thomas -
« Take It All » from « Nine » (The Weinstein Company) Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston -
« The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) » from « Crazy Heart » (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best motion picture of the year
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox)
A Lightstorm Entertainment ProductionJames Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers -
« The Blind Side » (Warner Bros.)
An Alcon Entertainment ProductionNominees to be determined -
« District 9 » (Sony Pictures Releasing)
A Block/Hanson ProductionPeter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers -
« An Education » (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films ProductionFinola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers -
« The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment)
A Voltage Pictures ProductionNominees to be determined -
« Inglourious Basterds » (The Weinstein Company)
A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg ProductionLawrence Bender, Producer -
« Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire » (Lionsgate)
A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment ProductionLee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers -
« A Serious Man » (Focus Features)
A Working Title Films ProductionJoel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers -
« Up » (Walt Disney)
A Pixar ProductionJonas Rivera, Producer -
« Up in the Air » (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
A Montecito Picture Company ProductionDaniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
Best animated short film
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« French Roast »
A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films ProductionFabrice O. Joubert -
« Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty » (Brown Bag Films)
A Brown Bag Films ProductionNicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell -
« The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) »
A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon ProductionJavier Recio Gracia -
« Logorama » (Autour de Minuit)
An Autour de Minuit ProductionNicolas Schmerkin -
« A Matter of Loaf and Death » (Aardman Animations)
An Aardman Animations ProductionNick Park
Best live action short film
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« The Door » (Network Ireland Television)
An Octagon Films ProductionJuanita Wilson and James Flynn -
« Instead of Abracadabra » (The Swedish Film Institute)
A Directörn & Fabrikörn ProductionPatrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström -
« Kavi »
A Gregg Helvey ProductionGregg Helvey -
« Miracle Fish » (Premium Films)
A Druid Films ProductionLuke Doolan and Drew Bailey -
« The New Tenants »
A Park Pictures and M & M ProductionJoachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Achievement in sound editing
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle -
« The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson -
« Inglourious Basterds » (The Weinstein Company) Wylie Stateman -
« Star Trek » (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin -
« Up » (Walt Disney) Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Achievement in sound mixing
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson -
« The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett -
« Inglourious Basterds » (The Weinstein Company) Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano -
« Star Trek » (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin -
« Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen » (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount) Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Achievement in visual effects
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« Avatar » (20th Century Fox) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones -
« District 9 » (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken -
« Star Trek » (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Adapted screenplay
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« District 9 » (Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell -
« An Education » (Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by Nick Hornby -
« In the Loop » (IFC Films) Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche -
« Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire » (Lionsgate) Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher -
« Up in the Air » (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Original screenplay
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« The Hurt Locker » (Summit Entertainment) Written by Mark Boal -
« Inglourious Basterds » (The Weinstein Company) Written by Quentin Tarantino -
« The Messenger » (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman -
« A Serious Man » (Focus Features) Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen -
« Up » (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy