2009
FINAL OFFICIAL CARVED-IN-STONE 2009 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS:
BEST PICTURE
Avatar (20th Century Fox), d.
James Cameron;
The Blind Side (Warner Bros.), d: John Lee Hancock; District 9 (Screen Gems), d: Neill Blomkamp;
An Education (Sony Classics), d:
Lone Scherfig;
The Hurt Locker, d:
Kathryn Bigelow;
Inglourious Basterds (Universal Pictures/The Weinstein Company), d:
Quentin Tarantino; Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate), d:
Lee Daniels;
A Serious Man (Focus Features), d:
Joel and Ethan Coen;
Up (Disney), d:
Pete Docter, Bob Peterson;
Up In The Air (Paramount), d:
Jason Reitman.
BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron (Avatar),
Jason Reitman (
Up In The Air);
Kathryn Bigelow (
The Hurt Locker);
Lee Daniels (
Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire);
Quentin Tarantino (
Inglourious Basterds).
BEST ACTOR
Jeff Bridges (
Crazy Heart);
Morgan Freeman (
Invictus);
George Clooney (
Up In The Air);
Jeremy Renner (
The Hurt Locker);
Colin Firth, (
A Single Man).
BEST ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock (
The Blind Side);
Carey Mulligan (
An Education);
Meryl Streep (
Julie & Julia, It's Complicated);
Gabby Sidibe,
Precious;
Helen Mirren (
The Last Station).
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plummer (
The Last Station);
Woody Harrelson (
The Messenger);
Matt Damon (
Invictus);
Christoph Waltz (
Inglourious Basterds);
Stanley Tucci (
The Lovely Bones).
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Mo'nique (
Precious: Based on the Novel by Sapphire);
Vera Farmiga (
Up in the Air);
Anna Kendrick (
Up in the Air);
Maggie Gyllenhaal (
Crazy Heart), Penelope Cruz (
Nine).
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
District 9, written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell;
An Education, screenplay by Nick Hornby;
In the Loop, screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche; ,em>Precious, screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher;
Up in the Air, screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner.
BEST 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.
BEST EDITING
Chris Innis, Bob Murawski (
The Hurt Locker),
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron (
Avatar);
Julian Clarke (
District 9);
Joe Klotz (
Precious).
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mauro Fiore (
Avatar);
Bruno Delbonnel (
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince);
Christian Berger (
White Ribbon);
Robert Richardson (
Inglourious Basterds);
Barry Ackroyd (
The Hurt Locker).
BEST EDITING
Avatar, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron;
District 9, Julian Clarke;
The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis;
Inglourious Basterds, Sally Menke;
Precious, Joe Klotz.
BEST ART DIRECTION
Avatar (Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair);
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith);
Nine (Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim);
Sherlock Holmes (Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer);
The Young Victoria (Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray).
BEST SOUND MIXING
Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson;
The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett;
Inglourious Basterds, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano;
Star Trek, Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin; ,em>Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson.
BEST SOUND EDITING
Avatar, Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle;
The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson;
Inglourious Basterds, Wylie Stateman;
Star Trek, Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin;
Up, Michael Silvers and Tom Myers.
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Ajami, (Israel);
El Secreto de Sus Ojos" (Argentina); The Milk of Sorrow (Peru); Un Prophete, (France); The White Ribbon (Germany).
BEST MAKEUP
Il Divo, Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano; Star Trek, Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow; The Young Victoria, Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore.\
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog, Music and Lyric by Randy Newman; "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog, Music and Lyric by Randy Newman.; "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36, Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas; "Take It All" from Nine, Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston; "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart, Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett.
BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
French Roast, Fabrice O. Joubert; Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell; The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte), Javier Recio Gracia; Logorama, Nicolas Schmerkin; A Matter of Loaf and Death, Nick Park.
SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
The Door, Juanita Wilson and James Flynn; Instead of Abracadabra, Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellstroem; Kavi, Gregg Helvey; Miracle Fish, Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey; ,em>The New Tenants, Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson.
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones;
District 9, Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken;
Star Trek, Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Janet Patterson (
Bright Star);
Catherine Leterrier
(
Coco Before Chanel);
Monique Prudhomme (
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus);
Collen Atwood (
Nine);
Sandy Powell (
The Young Victoria.
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
James Horner (
Avatar);
Alexandre Desplat (
Fantastic Mr. Fox);
Marco Beltrami and
Buck Sanders (
The Hurt Locker);
Hans Zimmer (
Sherlock Holmes);
Michael Giacchino (
Up).
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Burma VJ (Anders Ostergaard and Lise Lense-Moller);
The Cove (d: Louis Psihoyos), Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein);
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers ( Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith),
Which Way Home (Rebecca Cammisa).'
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province", Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill; "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner", Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher; "The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant", Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert; "Music by Prudence", Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett; "Rabbit a la Berlin", Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra