Oscar Nominations Announced

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.

 

 

Avatar

The Blind Side

District 9

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious

A Serious Man

Up

Up In The Air.

 

Penelope Cruz- Nine

Vera Farmiga- Up In The Air

Maggie Gyllenhaal- Crazy Heart

Anna Kendrick- Up In The Air

Mo'nique- Precious.

 

Matt Damon- Invictus

Christopher Plummer- The Last Station

Christoph Waltz- Inglourious Basterds

Woody Harrelson- The Messenger

Stanley Tucci- The Lovely Bones.

 

Jeff Bridges- Crazy Heart

George Clooney- Up In The Air

Colin Firth- A Single Man

Morgan Freeman- Invictus

Jeremy Renner- The Hurt Locker.

 

Kathryn Bigelow- The Hurt Locker

Lee Daniels- Precious

James Cameron- Avatar

Jason Reitman- Up In The Air

Quentin Tarantino- Inglourious Basterds.

 

Sandra Bullock-The Blind Side

Helen Mirren- The Last Station

Carey Mulligan- An Education

Gabourey Sidibe- Precious

Meryl Streep- Julie & Julia.

 

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)