James Cameron’s Avatar has picked up 9 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Moon, and it’s leading man Sam Rockwell, has been completely over-looked. Likewise Michael Stuhlberg missed out on a Best Actor nod for his outstanding performance in the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man.
Best Picture
- Avatar
- The Hurt Locker
- Up in the Air
- Precious
- Inglourious Basterds
- An Education
- District 9
- Up
- A Serious Man
- The Blind Side
Best Actress
- Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
- Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
- Carey Mulligan (An Education)
- Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
- Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
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 Supporting Actress
- Mo’Nique (Precious)
- Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air)
- Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)
- Penelope Cruz (The Nine)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Best Supporting Actor
- Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
- Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
- Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
- Matt Damon (Invictus)
- Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Best Director
- Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
- James Cameron (Avatar)
- Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
- Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
- Lee Daniels (Precious)
See the full list of nominations at the Official Oscar website.







4 Comments
It’s hard to believe Avatar can really get that many nominations. Sure, the technical awards belong to the film … but Best Picture? Best Director?
The one nomination it didn’t get that I might be willing to accept if it had would be Zoe Saldana for her mesmerizing, soulful performance as Neytiri. Of course, I would have preferred that Melanie Laurent be nominated over Saldan, and that didn’t happen either.
A couple of names and films aside, this is the worst nominations list I’ve seen in years. *sighs*
I agree with ya Ray.
Avatar was total crap. How do people fall for this shit.
It was technically amazing. Other than that, it was really really bad.
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