Oscar Awards

And the nominees are:

Performance by an actor in a leading role
- Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
- George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
- Colin Firth in "A Single Man" (The Weinstein Company)
- Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
- Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
- Matt Damon in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
- Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
- Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)
- Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
- Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
- Helen Mirren in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
- Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
- Penélope Cruz in "Nine" (The Weinstein Company)
- Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring - Pictures and DW Studios)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
- Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
- Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)

Best animated feature film of the year
- "Coraline" (Focus Features) Henry Selick
- "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson
- "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) John Musker and Ron Clements
- "The Secret of Kells" (GKIDS) Tomm Moore
- "Up" (Walt Disney) Pete Docter

Achievement in art direction
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
- "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro
Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
- "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
- "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood
Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
- "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Art Direction: Patrice Vermette
Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Achievement in cinematography
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Mauro Fiore
- "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.) Bruno Delbonnel
- "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Barry Ackroyd
- "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Robert Richardson
- "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) Christian Berger

Achievement in costume design
- "Bright Star" (Apparition) Janet Patterson
- "Coco before Chanel" (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier
- "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Monique Prudhomme
- "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Colleen Atwood
- "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Sandy Powell

Achievement in directing
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Cameron
- "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow
- "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Quentin Tarantino
- "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Lee Daniels
- "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Jason Reitman

Best documentary feature
- "Burma VJ" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
A Magic Hour Films Production Anders سtergaard and Lise Lense-M?
- "The Cove" (Roadside Attractions)
An Oceanic Preservation Society Production Nominees to be determined
- "Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures)
A Robert Kenner Films Production Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
- "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"
A Kovno Communications Production Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
- "Which Way Home"
A Mr. Mudd Production Rebecca Cammisa

Best documentary short subject
- "China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province"
A Downtown Community Television Center Production Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
- "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner"
A Just Media Production Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
- "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant"
A Community Media Production Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
- "Music by Prudence"
An iThemba Production Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
- "Rabbit ࠬa Berlin" (Deckert Distribution)
An MS Films Production Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

Achievement in film editing
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
- "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Clarke
- "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
- "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Sally Menke
- "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Joe Klotz

Best foreign language film of the year
- "Ajami"(Kino International)
An Inosan Production Israel
- "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Haddock Films Production Argentina
- "The Milk of Sorrow"
A Wanda Visi󮯏beron Cinematogr঩ca/Vela Production Peru
- "Un Proph败" (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production France
- "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics)
An X Filme Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production Germany

Achievement in makeup
- "Il Divo" (MPI Media Group through Music Box) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
- "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
- "The Young Victoria" (Apparition) Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Horner
- "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Alexandre Desplat
- "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
- "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
- "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
- "Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- "Down in New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- "Loin de Paname" from "Paris 36" (Sony Pictures Classics) Music by Reinhardt Wagner
Lyric by Frank Thomas
- "Take It All" from "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
- "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Best motion picture of the year
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox)
A Lightstorm Entertainment Production James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
- "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
An Alcon Entertainment Production Nominees to be determined
- "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
A Block/Hanson Production Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
- "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)
A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
- "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)
A Voltage Pictures Production Nominees to be determined
- "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)
A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production Lawrence Bender, Producer
- "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
- "A Serious Man" (Focus Features)
A Working Title Films Production Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
- "Up" (Walt Disney)
A Pixar Production Jonas Rivera, Producer
- "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
A Montecito Picture Company Production Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

Best animated short film
- "French Roast"
A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films Production Fabrice O. Joubert
- "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" (Brown Bag Films)
A Brown Bag Films Production Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
- "The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)"
A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production Javier Recio Gracia
- "Logorama" (Autour de Minuit)
An Autour de Minuit Production Nicolas Schmerkin
- "A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Aardman Animations)
An Aardman Animations Production Nick Park

Best live action short film
- "The Door" (Network Ireland Television)
An Octagon Films Production Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
- "Instead of Abracadabra" (The Swedish Film Institute)
A Direct'& Fabrik'Production Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellstr?td>
- "Kavi"
A Gregg Helvey Production Gregg Helvey
- "Miracle Fish" (Premium Films)
A Druid Films Production Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
- "The New Tenants"
A Park Pictures and M & M Production Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Achievement in sound editing
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
- "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson
- "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Wylie Stateman
- "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
- "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Achievement in sound mixing
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
- "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
- "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
- "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
- "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount) Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Achievement in visual effects
- "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
- "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken
- "Star Trek" (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment) Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Adapted screenplay
- "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
- "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by Nick Hornby
- "In the Loop" (IFC Films) Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
- "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate) Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
- "Up in the Air" (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Original screenplay
- "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Written by Mark Boal
- "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Written by Quentin Tarantino
- "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
- "A Serious Man" (Focus Features) Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
- "Up" (Walt Disney) Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy