2009 Academy Award Nominations

Here are the 2009 82nd Academy Award Nominations and as you can see, Star Trek, one of my favourite movies of the year didn't make the cut for Best Picture. UP is included, making it the first animated movie since Beauty and the Beast, to be nominated for Best Picture. District 9 makes a surprise inclusion which I'm happy with. Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead the nominations with 9, followed by Inglourious Basterds with 8.

The Oscars will be presented on March 7 at the Kodak theatre, and here in Australia will get to see it March 8 on Arena LIVE.

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

DIRECTING:
* James Cameron (Avatar)
* Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
* Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
* Lee Daniels (Precious)
* Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)

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)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE:
* Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
* Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
* Carey Mulligan (An Education)
* Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
* Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia)

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)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE:
* Penelope Cruz (Nine)
* Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
* Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
* Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
* Mo'Nique (Precious)


ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
* District 9 (Written by Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell)
* An Education (Screenplay by Nick Hornby)
* In the Loop (Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche)
* Precious (Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher)
* Up in the Air (Screenplay by Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
* The Hurt Locker (Written by Mark Boal)
* Inglourious Basterds (Written by Quentin Tarantino)
* The Messenger (Written by Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman)
* A Serious Man (Written by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
* Up (Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter. Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy)

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
* Ajami (Israel)
* El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
* The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
* Un Prophete (France)
* The White Ribbon (Germany)

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
* Coraline
* Fantastic Mr. Fox
* The Princess and the Frog
* The Secrets of Kells
* Up

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

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

COSTUME DESIGN:
* Bright Star (Janet Patterson)
* Coco before Chanel (Catherine Leterrier)
* The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme)
* Nine (Colleen Atwood)
* The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)

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

FILM EDITING:
* Avatar (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron)
* District 9 (Julian Clarke)
* The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski, Chris Innis)
* Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
* Precious (Joe Klotz)

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

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

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

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 Lenson, Peter J. Devlin)
* Transformers: Revenger of the Fallen (Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson)

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

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

DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
* 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

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
* 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

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
* The Door
* Instead of Abracadabra
* Kavi
* Miracle Fish
* The New Tenants

Source: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences