Oscars 2010 Nominees – Avatar and “Locker” tie with 9

And they’re up! I’ve got your list of Oscar nominees this morning along with how my predictions checked out. The big news is that the Academy absolutely loves The Hurt Locker, giving it as many nominations as Avatar. They share noms in seven of those categories, so this should really be quite a race to the announcement of Best Picture. Right behind them was Inglourious Basterds with eight nominations. Precious and Up in the Air each earned six. Up scored five. Click on the Best Picture nominees in red for my reviews.

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Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• The Blind Side
• Up in the Air
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
• An Education
• Up
• A Serious Man
• District 9

Movie Muse Prediction: 9/10 Correct. The Blind Side came up and surprised everyone, taking a spot from Invictus on my list, but guess what? Both are Warner Bros films, and I said WB would get representation, didn’t I?

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Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

• Mo’nique for Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
• Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air
• Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air
• Penelope Cruz for Nine
• Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart

Movie Muse Prediction: 4/5 Correct. I took a chance with Diane Kruger in that last spot, which went to Maggie Gyllenhaal. Not a big shock

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Movie Muse Prediction: 5/5 Correct. The only thing I wasn’t sure of was the film Tucci would be nominated for, which was The Lovely Bones rather than Julie & Julia

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Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

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

Movie Muse Prediction: 5/5 Correct. There were no surprises here.

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Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

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

Movie Muse Prediction: 5/5 Correct. Boom money. Jeremy Renner was my pick for the final spot and low and behold. The Academy really loves “Locker.”

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Best Achievement in Directing

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

Movie Muse Prediction: 5/5 Correct. What did I say? Don’t mess with the LA Times directors round table.

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Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
• Mark Boal for The Hurt Locker
• Joel and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man
• Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman for The Messenger
• Bob Peterson, Pete Docter for Up

Movie Muse Prediction: 4/5 Correct. I took a chance on Avatar for that last spot, but The Messenger was the dark horse.

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Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

• Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air
• Neil Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9
• Nick Hornby for An Education
• Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
• Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armondo Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche for In the Loop

Movie Muse Prediction: 4/5 Correct.  Julie & Julia writer Nora Ephron was my dark horse for the last spot here but I heard “Loop” was just excellent. Can’t wait for it in my Netflix queue.

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Best Achievement in Cinematography

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

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Best Achievement in Editing

• Avatar (John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin)
• District 9 (Julian Clarke)
• The Hurt Locker (Chris Innis, Bob Murawski)
• Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
• Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire (Joe Klotz)

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Best Achievement in Art Direction

• Avatar (Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg)
• Sherlock Holmes (Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer)
• The Young Victoria (Patrice Vermette, Maggie Gray)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Dave Warren, Terry Gilliam, Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith, Shane Vieau)
• Nine (Jon Myhre, Gordon Sim)

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Best Achievement in Costume Design

• Coco Before Chanel (Catherine Leterrier)
• The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)
• Bright Star (Janet Patterson)
• Nine (Colleen Atwood)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme)

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Best Achievement in Makeup

• Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow)
• Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti, Vittorio Sodano)
• The Young Victoria (Jon Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore)

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Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

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

Movie Muse Prediction: 3/5 Correct. Look at all this Locker-love. That wasn’t even on my radar. Not surprised Alexandre Desplat got that other spot I missed, he was a big name floating around there too.

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Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

• “The Weary Kind” by T-Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham from Crazy Heart
• “Down in New Orleans” by Randy Newman from The Princess and the Frog
• “Almost There” by Randy Newman from The Princess and the Frog
• “Loin de Paname” by Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas from Paris 36
• “Take it All” by Maury Yeston from Nine

Movie Muse Prediction: 2/5 Correct. Not to self: The Golden Globes are not the barometer by which to predict this category. I don’t even know what the movie Paris 36 is. I’m not surprised at all the Randy Newman love, however, as he earned two noms as opposed to my predicted one. Also, I guessed the wrong Nine song.

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Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

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

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Best Achievement in Sound Editing

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

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Best Achievement in Visual Effects

• Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones)
• District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken)
• Star Trek (Robert Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton)

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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

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Best Short Film, Live Action

• The Door
• Instead of Abracadabra
• Kavi
• Miracle Fish
• The New Tenants

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Best Documentary, Features

• Food, Inc.
• The Cove
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
• Burma VJ
• Which Way Home

Movie Muse Prediction: 4/5 Correct. Never even heard of Which Way Home before. Excited for Burma VJ, however, I’ll have my review of that up eventually.

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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 a la Berlin

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Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

• The White Ribbon (Germany)
• A Prophet (France)
• The Secret in their Eyes (Argentina)
• Ajami (Israel)
• The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)

Movie Muse Prediction: 4/5 Correct. I did some pretty good guessing here as only those first two were locks. I only missed “Milk of Sorrow.”

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Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

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

Movie Muse Prediction: 4/5 Correct. Secret of who now? Oh well, at least it didn’t rob anyone overly deserving of a nomination.

Overall Movie Muse Predictions: 59/70

Wow. I’m gonna take that one. Did not expect to do that well. Keep checking back here all this coming month for Oscar coverage!