Upcoming
January 8
Youth in Revolt
January 15
January 22
Drool
The Girl on the Train
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 DaltonBEST 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 WydraPosted by Jeffrey Wells on February 23, 2009 at 4:36 PM