I woke up on a text message from my best friend Shatha telling me that the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced by Academy President Tom Sherak and actress Anne Hathaway. They revealed the ten nominees for Best Picture, as well as contenders for Director, Animated Feature, Foreign Language Film, and the writing and acting categories.

Multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations:
9 nominations: Avatar and The Hurt Locker
8 nominations: Inglourious Basterds
6 nominations: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and Up in the Air
5 nominations: Up
4 nominations: District 9, Nine and Star Trek
3 nominations: An Education , Crazy Heart, The Princess and the Frog and The Young Victoria
2 nominations: A Serious Man , The Blind Side, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Invictus, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Last Station , Sherlock Holmes and The White Ribbon



Congratulations to Meryl Streep for her record sixteenth Oscar nomination!





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




Best Foreign Language Film
Ajami, Israel
The Milk of Sorrow, Peru
A Prophet, France
El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina
The White Ribbon, Germany




Best Adapted Screenplay
An Education, Nick Hornby
District 9, Neil Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell
In the Loop, Jesse Armstrong & Simon Blackwell & Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner




Best Original Screenplay
The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger, Alessandro Camon & Owen Moverman
A Serious Man, Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Up, Pete Docter & Thomas McCarthy & Bob Peterson




Best Director
Avatar, James Cameron
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Lee Daniels
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman




Best Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
George Clooney in Up in the Air
Colin Firth in A Single Man
Morgan Freeman in Invictus
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker




Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
Helen Mirren in The Last Station
Carey Mulligan in An Education
Gabourey Sidibe in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia




Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon in Invictus
Woody Harrelson in The Messenger
Christopher Plummer in The Last Station
Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds




Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Penelope Cruz in Nine
Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air
Mo'Nique in Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire




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




Best Art Direction/Set Decoration
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria




Best Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria




Best Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire




Best Sound Mixing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen




Best Sound Editing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up




Best Makeup
Il Divo
District 9
The Young Victoria




Best Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek




Best Original Score
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up




Best Original Song
"The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart
"Take It All" from Nine
"Loin de Paname" from Paris 36
"Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog
"Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog




Best Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
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