Like previous years, the year 2009 too saw some of the most fantastic films in Hollywood. From “Inglourious Basterds” to “Avatar”, people got to see several such top-class movies with many of the seasoned Hollywood actors and actresses, directors and technicians showing their best. We present here the list of Oscar Awards 2010 nominees.

Nominees for Best Actor in a Leading Role:

  • Jeff Bridges
  • Morgan Freeman
  • George Clooney
  • Colin Firth
  • Jeremy Renner

Nominees for Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

  • Matt Damon in “Invictus” (Warner Bros.)
  • Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station” (Sony Pictures Classics),
  • Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones” (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)
  • Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger” (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
  • Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)

Nominees for Actress in a Leading Role:

  • Sandra Bullock
  • Carey Mulligan
  • Helen Mirren
  • Meryl Streep
  • Gabourey Sidibe

Best Actress in Supporting Role nominees:

  • Penélope Cruz in “Nine” (The Weinstein Company)
  • Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
  • Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)
  • Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

Best animated feature film nominees:

  • “Coraline” (Focus Features) Henry Selick
  • “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) John Musker and Ron Clements
  • “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson
  • “Up” (Walt Disney) Pete Docter
  • “The Secret of Kells” (GKIDS) Tomm Moore

Best in art direction Oscars 2010 nominees:

  • “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert StrombergSet Decoration: Kim Sinclair
  • “Nine” (The Weinstein Company) Art Direction: John MyhreSet Decoration: Gordon Sim
  • “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (Sony Pictures Classics) Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia MasaroSet Decoration: Caroline Smith
  • “The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Art Direction: Patrice VermetteSet Decoration: Maggie Gray
  • “Sherlock Holmes” (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Sarah GreenwoodSet Decoration: Katie Spencer

Best in cinematography Oscars 2010 nominees:

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

Best in costume design Oscars 2010 Nominees:

  • “Bright Star” (Apparition) Janet Patterson
  • “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” (Sony Pictures Classics) Monique Prudhomme
  • “Coco before Chanel” (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier
  • “The Young Victoria” (Apparition) Sandy Powell
  • “Nine” (The Weinstein Company) Colleen Atwood

Best Director Oscars 2010 Nominees:

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

Best documentary feature film Oscars 2010 Nominees:

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

Best documentary short subject Oscars 2010 Nominees:

  • “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
  • “Rabbit à la Berlin” (Deckert Distribution) An MS Films Production Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
  • “Music by Prudence” An iThemba Production Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

Best in film editing Oscars 2010 Nominees:

  • “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
  • “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
  • “District 9″ (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Clarke
  • “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate) Joe Klotz
  • “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company) Sally Menke

Best foreign language film of the year Oscars 2010 Nominees:

  • “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haddock Films Production Argentina
  • “Ajami”(Kino International) An Inosan Production Israel
  • “Un Prophète” (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
  • “The Milk of Sorrow” A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela Production Peru

Best in Makeup Oscars 2010 Nominees:

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

Best in music written for motion pictures Oscars 2010 Nominees (Original score)

  • “Avatar” (20th Century Fox) James Horner
  • “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
  • “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (20th Century Fox) Alexandre Desplat
  • “Up” (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
  • “Sherlock Holmes” (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer

Best in music written for motion pictures Oscars 2010 Nominees (Original song)

  • “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
  • “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
  • “Take It All” from “Nine” (The Weinstein Company) Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
  • “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36″ (Sony Pictures Classics) Music by Reinhardt Wagner. Lyric by Frank Thomas
  • “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 Oscars 2010 Nominees:

  • “District 9″ (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Block/Hanson Production Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
  • “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
  • “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 Oscars 2010 Nominees:

  • “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 Oscars 2010 Nominees:

  • “Instead of Abracadabra” (The Swedish Film Institute) A Directörn & Fabrikörn Production Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
  • “The Door” (Network Ireland Television) An Octagon Films Production Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
  • “Kavi” A Gregg Helvey Production Gregg Helvey
  • “The New Tenants” A Park Pictures and M & M Production Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
  • “Miracle Fish” (Premium Films) A Druid Films Production Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey

Best in sound editing Oscars 2010 Nominees:

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

Best in sound mixing Oscars 2010 Nominees:

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

Best in visual effects Oscars 2010 Nominees:

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

Best in Adapted screenplay Oscars 2010 Nominees:

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

Best in Original screenplay Oscars 2010 Nominees:

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