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Oscar Nominations Announced

Brits Colin Firth and Helen Mirren are up for the awards...

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 14:06

Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead the Oscar nominations for 2010 with nine nods each. 

Also featuring multiple times on the list are Up In The Air, Precious, A Serious Man, Up and Inglourious Basterds.
 
British hopes include Colin Firth - who is up for Best Actor for his role in A Single Man. Helen Mirren- who picked up an Oscar for The Queen- is up for Best Actress against stars including Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock.
 
The British writers of In The Loop and An Education have all bagged nominations too.
 
MAIN NOMINATIONS BELOW
 
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 Supporting Actress:
Penelope Cruz- Nine
Vera Farmiga- Up In The Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal- Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick- Up In The Air
Mo'nique- Precious.
 
Best Supporting Actor:
Matt Damon- Invictus
Christopher Plummer- The Last Station
Christoph Waltz- Inglourious Basterds
Woody Harrelson- The Messenger
Stanley Tucci- The Lovely Bones.
 
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 Director:
Kathryn Bigelow- The Hurt Locker
Lee Daniels- Precious
James Cameron- Avatar
Jason Reitman- Up In The Air
Quentin Tarantino- Inglourious Basterds.
 
Best Actress:
Sandra Bullock-The Blind Side
Helen Mirren- The Last Station
Carey Mulligan- An Education
Gabourey Sidibe- Precious
Meryl Streep- Julie & Julia.
 
Best Animated Feature:
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess & The Frog
The Secret Of Kells
Up
 
Writing (adapted screenplay):
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)
An Education (Nick Hornby)
Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche)
 
Writing (original screenplay):
The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Up (Pete Docter and Bob Petersen)
The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman)

 

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