2010 Oscar Nominations

Another year, another Oscar. This time with twice the Best Pictures. Like usual, bold is what I think is going to win and italics is what I would like to win.

Best Picture - I seriously hope the Academy goes by what is actually a good movie and not what the fanboys like... that means no win for Avatar here hopefully

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Best Actor in a Leading Role - I really like Jeremy Renner so I'm happy to see him nominated

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

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Matt Damon for Invictus
Woody Harrelson for The Messenger
Christopher Plummer for The Last Station
Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress in a Leading Role - Another Oscar, another Streep nomination

Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side
Helen Mirren for The Last Station
Carey Mulligan for An Education
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia

Best Actress in a Supporting Role - I don't really have an opinion of who I would like to win in this category

Penélope Cruz for Nine
Vera Fermiga for Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air
Mo'Nique for Precious

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Art Direction - no opinion... although Avatar will probably win this because it's Avatar

Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Cinematography - Avatar again because it's Avatar

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

Best Costume Design - I'm using the same standards I use for all the previous ones... the Academy LOVES Victorian era costuming

Bright Star
Coco before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Best Director - the fanboys need to stay out of this one, too

James Cameron for Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels for Precious
Jason Reitman for Up in the Air

Best Documentary Feature - don't really care

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 - again, don't really care

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 - fanboys demand Avatar... except the fanboys also like District 9 and that had really good editing... hmmm... and Precious was thrown to the wolves in this category...

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Foreign Language Film - don't care

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

Best Makeup - using the Victorian standard here

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Best Original Score - Avatar demands sacrifice!!!

James Horner for Avatar
Alexandre Desplat for Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders for The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer for Sherlock Holmes
Michael Giacchino for Up

Best Original Song

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

Best Animated Short - don't care

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 Live Action Short - don't care

The Door
Instread of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

Best Sound Editing - feed the Avatar beast!

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Best Sound Mixing - more for Avatar!!!

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

Best Visual Effects - MOAR!!!

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up