2010 Academy Awards 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 ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
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 IN A LEADING ROLE
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 and Julia

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Penélope 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 ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Caroline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

BEST ART DIRECTION
Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg (Production Design); Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration), Avatar
Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro (Production Design); Caroline Smith (Set Decoration), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
John Myhre (Production Design); Gordon Sim (Set Decoration), Nine
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration), Sherlock Holmes
Patrice Vermette (Production Design); Maggie Gray (Set Decoration), The Young Victoria

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mauro Fiore, Avatar
Bruno Delbonnel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker
Robert Richardson, Inglourious Basterds
Christian Berger, The White Ribbon

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Janet Patterson, Bright Star
Catherine Leterrier, Coco Before Chanel
Monique Prudhomme, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Colleen Atwood, Nine
Sandy Powell, The Young Victoria

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

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

BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit à la Berlin

BEST FILM EDITING
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron, Avatar
Julian Clarke, District 9
Bob Murawski and Chris Innis, The Hurt Locker
Sally Menke, Inglourious Basterds
Joe Klotz, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Ajami (Israel)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
A Prophet (France)
The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

BEST MAKEUP
Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano, Il Divo
Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow, Star Trek
Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore, The Young Victoria

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
James Horner, Avatar
Alexandre Desplat, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes
Michael Giacchino, Up

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
"The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)", Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, Crazy Heart
"Take It All", Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston, Nine
"Loin De Paname", Music by Reinhardt Wagner; Lyric by Frank Thomas, Paris 36
"Almost There", Music and Lyric by Randy Newman, The Princess and the Frog
"Down in New Orleans", Music and Lyric by Randy Newman, The Princess and the Frog

BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

BEST SOUND EDITING
Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Avatar
Paul N.J. Ottosson, The Hurt Locker
Wylie Stateman, Inglourious Basterds
Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin, Star Trek
Michael Silvers and Tom Myers, Up

BEST SOUND MIXING
Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson, Avatar
Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett, The Hurt Locker
Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano, Inglourious Basterds
Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin, Star Trek
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones, Avatar
Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken, District 9
Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton, Star Trek

BEST WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9
Nick Hornby, An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche, In the Loop
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

BEST WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, The Messenger
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter and Tom McCarthy, Up