And the Oscar nominees are ...

Yay for District 9. Yay for Jeff Bridges! Yay for Woody Harrelson. Go Kathryn Bigelow! And there's a double nod for Up! Maggie Gyllenhaal is a bit of a surprise. As was The Blind Side for best picture. And Star Trek was robbed! And Anna Kendrick's nod for Up In The Air means that a Twilight cast member got nominated. Which is really bleeped up. Leading the nominations pack are Hurt Locker and Avatar with nine nods each. We're going to be reading so many stories about ex vs. ex and how Bigelow and Cameron get along and blah-blah. I feel tired already.

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

BEST ACTRESS Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, The Last Station Carey Mulligan, An Education Gabourey Sadibe, Precious Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS MoNique, Precious Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air Penelope Cruz, Nine

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

BEST DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Basterds

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY The Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds, The Messenger, A Serious Man, Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY An Education, District 9, In The Loop, Precious Up, in the Air

BEST ANIMATED FILM Coraline, The Secret of Kells, Fantastic Mr. Fox ,The Princess and the Frog, Up

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Ajami, El Secreto, Milk os Sorrow, The Prophet, The White Ribbon

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

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

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

Comments

[Kolchak]

"UP" shouldn't be nominated for both Best Pic *and* Best Animated Pic.