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The 2010 Oscar Nominations Announced!

Hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

2nd Feb 2010
By Ed, Flicks.co.nz

This morning the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced (the big night is on March 7).

Leading the pack are James Cameron's Avatar and war zone thriller The Hurt Locker (directed by Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, due for release here later in 2010), with nine nominations each.

And what of the Kiwi contingent? There are nine of us folk... mainly in the technical categories (Sound, Special Effects) where WETA Workshop were involved for Avatar and District 9. While Peter Jackson gets a nod for producing District 9, his Lovely Bones misses out aside from a Supporting Actor nomination (for Stanley Tucci). Jane Campion's Bright Star gets a single nomination for Costume Design.

Here is the full list...

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
Avatar: James Cameron, Jon Landau
The Blind Side: Nominees to be determined
District 9: Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham
An Education: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
The Hurt Locker: Nominees to be determined
Inglourious Basterds: Lawrence Bender
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire: Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
A Serious Man: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up: Jonas Rivera
Up in the Air: Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
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 PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side
Helen Mirren for The Last Station
Carey Mulligan for An Education
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN 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 PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Penelope Cruz for Nine
Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air
Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

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

BEST WRITING, SCREENING WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN
The Hurt Locker: Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds: Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger: Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman
A Serious Man: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Up: Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Thomas McCarthy

BEST WRITING, ADAPTED SCREEPLAY
District 9: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
An Education: Nick Hornby
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 ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar: Mauro Fiore
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte: Christian Berger
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker: Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds: Robert Richardson

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

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
Avatar: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: David Warren, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith
Nine: John Myhre, Gordon Sim
Sherlock Holmes: Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
The Young Victoria: Patrice Vermette, Maggie Gray

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CONSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star: Janet Patterson
Coco avant Chanel: Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: Monique Prudhomme
Nine: Colleen Atwood
The Young Victoria: Sandy Powell

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
Il divo: Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano
Star Trek: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow
The Young Victoria: John Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore

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

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR
Coraline: Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog: John Musker, Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells: Tomm Moore
Up: Pete Docter

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

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC ORIGINAL SONG
Crazy Heart: T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham (The Weary Kind)
Faubourg 36: Reinhardt Wagner, Frank Thomas (Loin de Paname)
Nine: Maury Yeston (Take It All)
The Princess and the Frog: Randy Newman (Down in New Orleans)
The Princess and the Frog: Randy Newman (Almost There)

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
Ajami (Israel)
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (Germany)
El secreto de sus ojos (Argentina)
Un prophete (France)
La teta asustada (Peru)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

The people's comments

OMG i so agree with Sarah! New Moon should be nominated, but I suppose it was mostly adults or guys that voted, but yea, it should be nominated 4 something, oh well, at least Kristen Stewart's nominated 4 a Bafta 4 New Moon! Hope she gets it!

By Brianna

i love going to the movies but i hate that we are so far behind i saw the hurt locker almost 6 months ago. I am definitely going to see it at the movies if it ever comes out here.

It would be nice if district 9 won something but i doubt it.

By david

Why do people who review movies become so pompous. Streep has a brilliant career with many detailed and powerful performances. Sure you can dismiss anyone because others like them, if you want attention. The Oscar is mostly commercial and popular still it does recognize very good film making. It seems to me the mix of films, arty ,commercial etc is not so different from every other year, it merely reflects the taste of the time to some degree praises some good work. Relax, enjoy it.

By Paul Willis

Where in the heck is "New Moon" in all this? Why wasn't it nominated?

By Sarah

Come on, Dan and Murray - there are plenty of good, interesting films nominated here. District 9, The Hurt Locker, A Serious Man, Precious. Plus, I won't hear a bad word about Alec Baldwin.

By Jessica

Hear hear Murray Swann... the Oscars are nothing. Their picks are unoriginal and bland. They're very rarely at the forefront - picking influential or exiting films. Most notably for me this year - UP IN THE AIR. What rubbish!

By Dan

Hi Stacey. Unfortunately many are these are undated for NZ: HURT LOCKER, BLIND SIDE, THE LAST STATION and THE MESSENGER.

A SINGLE MAN is due out May 6th
CRAZY HEART is due out Feb 25th

Check out our coming soon page - it's the most comprehensive and up to date place to find release dates.

Cheers.

By Ed, Flicks.co.nz

Have you included Finola Dwyer (producer, "An Education") in your list of 9 Kiwis amongst this year's Oscar nominations?
How about including the names for the sound & effects nominees, and highlighting the Kiwis throughout?

From the web:

FINOLA DWYER

Finola is a producer and the MD of Finola Dwyer Productions.

Finola’s background was as an editor. Since re-locating to the UK from New Zealand in the early 90’s, her producer credits have included Iain Softley's award-winning debut feature Backbeat, starring Stephen Dorff and Ian Hart; Stephan Elliott's cult favourite Welcome to Woop Woop; Chris Menges' The Lost Son, starring Daniel Auteuil and Nastassja Kinski; Sandra Goldbacher's BAFTA-nominated Me Without You, starring Anna Friel and Michelle Williams; Antonia Bird's EMMY-nominated TV film for C4/HBO The Hamburg Cell; and Stephen Woolley's feature debut Stoned, starring Leo Gregory and Paddy Considine. Finola most recently produced Tsunami: The Aftermath by Abi Morgan, for HBO/BBC, directed by Bharat Nalluri, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tim Roth, Sophie Okonedo and Toni Collette. Tsunami (broadcast worldwide in Nov/Dec 2006) was nominated for three Golden Globes. Finola is currently producing An Education by Nick Hornby and is developing Silverback with Pierce Brosnan’s company Irish Dream Time.

She has recently produced the theatre production of Elling whch opened at the Bush Theatre with John Simm in the lead role and transfers to the West End's Trafalgar Studios in July 2007.

By Tony F

The Oscars have become a mess. The nominations are fairly hohum...but with the amount of rubbish being made Im not surprised at the tack up for the awards. I mean Sandra Bullock????? this is a third rate actress if ever there was one. A few years back she couldnt even get a role in a movie! And Meryl Streep...yawn.And if the Nominations werent bad enough what about the Hosts??? They will be terrible. If you cant get Billy Crystal or Woophi Goldberg...then dont bother. People watch the Oscars for the glitz and glamour and to be entertained..and we hope to see alot of old Hollywood back....but I doubt it...Oscars 2010...another sad night!

By murray swann

I would LOVE to see a follow-up article focused on WHEN some of these nominated films will open in NZ such as HURT LOCKER, BLIND SIDE, A SINGLE MAN, CRAZY HEART, THE LAST STATION and THE MESSENGER.

By Stacey