http://theenvelope.latimes.com/awards/oscars/la-et-oscar-list3-2010feb03,0,2291566.htmlstory

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 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 actress

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

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

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

Best director

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

Edited February 2, 201015 yr by CarlD2

Who got snubbed?

http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2010/02/oscars-academy-awards-nominations-snubs-news.html

Lovely list.

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/82/nominees.html

Pretty pictures.

Maggie G is starting to look like Kathleen Turner.

How Penelope Cruz gets all this attention I don't know. Was she the best part of Nine?

I am so glad that Avatar did not get a screenplay nom! So glad!

I wonder who will win. For original, either the Coens or Tarantino, and for adapted, I think it will be Up in the Air. None of the adapted screenplay movies attract me. Perhaps Fletcher should win? I don't know.

Funny how they put them on the bottom of the page.

Another horrifying thing is that Horner will probably win for the Avatar soundtrack.

How Penelope Cruz gets all this attention I don't know. Was she the best part of Nine?

Do you like Pedro Almodóvar?

I haven't seen any of movies since those he made in the '80s. Not because I dislike him, I guess I'm just not interested enough.

I haven't seen any of movies since those he made in the '80s. Not because I dislike him, I guess I'm just not interested enough.

That is funny. Because they are very artistic, soapy, melodramatic, kitsch and campy with complex narratives and I believe he would be able to write a full-fledged, bombastic TV soap opera.

I didn't see as many movies this past year as I usually do (having tripped over a log and breaking my right wrist last summer, hence hospital bills to pay for having a steel plate inserted), but overall I'm pleased. I'm especially glad to see The Hurt Locker, An Education, Precious and Up in the Air included in several categories.

I do have to question whether The Blind Side was that good a film. It looked from the commercials like a run-of-the-mill Lifetime movie.

Penolpe? Maggie? The eff?! They are so underwhelming, IMHO. They are not awful or even bad, but they are far from great.

The one good thing about this list is that, on the acting side, there is a lot of emerging talent very likely to win. I mean, amid all the Clooneys and Bullocks and Streeps (seriously, how often can George Clooney get nominated?), we have Gaby Sidibe and Mo'Nique who I think will sweep their respective categories. There is also Christopher Waltz, a complete unknown outside Germany and Austria.

I hope Kathryn Bigelow wins Best Director. Haven't seem The Hurt Locker, I just like her. And Avatar will win something. Hollywood rewards the films that make it financially. Remember Titanic?

Oh, and I want to see A Single Man so badly.

Edited February 2, 201015 yr by Cat

I'm surprised they didn't manage to nominate Clint Eastwood again.

Kathryn used to direct for Homicide and Oz, didn't she? Oz in particular had a lot of strong directors.

Holy [!@#$%^&*], Batman. Mo'Nique "Nikki Parker/Heeeeeey Boo!" (no last name) is an Academy Award nominee.

I'm impressed. Precious was great.

YAY for Carey Mulligan getting a nom!

Happy for The Hurt Locker and Kathryn Bigelow, too!

Go Sandra! She was really good.

I know Mo'Nique will win.