Ravings of the Loquacious Madman

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Presents

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards

Sunday March 7, 2010

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Jeff Bridges “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)
• George Clooney “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Springs Pictures and DW Studios)
• Colin Firth “A Single Man” (The Weinstein Company)
• Morgan Freeman “Invictus” (Warner Brothers)
• Jeremy Renner “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Matt Damon “Invictus” (Warner Brothers)
• Woody Harrelson “The Messenger” (Oscilloscope Pictures Classics)
• Christopher Plummer “The Last Stallion” (Sony Pictures Classics
• Stanley Tucci “The Lovely Bones” (DreamWorks in association with Film4, Distributed by Paramount)
• Christoph Waltz “Inglourious Basterds” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Sandra Bullock “The Blind Side” (Warner Brothers)
• Helen Mirren “The Last Station” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Carey Mulligan “An Education” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Gabourey Sidibe “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)
• Meryl Streep “Julie & Julia” (Sony Pictures Releasing)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Penélope Cruz “Nine” (The Weinstein Company)
• Vera Farmiga “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Springs Pictures and DW Studios)
• Maggie Gyllenhaal “Crazy Heart” (Fox Searchlight)
• Anna Kendrick “Up in the Air” (Paramount in association with Cold Springs Pictures and DW Studios)
• Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” (Lionsgate)

Best animated feature film of the year

• “Coraline” Henry Selick (Focus Features)
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson (20th Century Fox)
• “The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements (Walt Disney)
• “The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore (GKIDS)
• “Up” Pete Docter (Walt Disney)

Achievement in art direction

• “Avatar” Art Direction:Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg, Set Direction: Kim Sinclair (20th Century Fox)
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction:Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro, Set Direction: Caroline Smith (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre, Set Direction: Gordon Sim (The Weinstein Company)
• “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood, Set Direction: Katie Spencer (Warner Brothers)
• “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette, Set Direction: Maggie Gray

Achievement in cinematography

• “Avatar” Mauro Fiore (20th Century Fox)
• “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Bruno Delbonnel (Warner Brothers)
• “The Hurt Locker” Barry Ackroyd (Summit Entertainment)
• “Inglourious Basterds” Robert Richardson (The Weinstein Company)
• “The White Ribbon” Christian Berger (Sony Pictures Classics)

Achievement in costume design

• “Bright Star” Janet Patterson (Apparition)
• “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “Nine” Colleen Atwood (The Weinstein Company)
• “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell (Apparition)

Achievement in directing

• “Avatar” James Cameron (20th Century Fox)
• “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow (Summit Entertainment)
• “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino (The Weinstein Company)
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels (Lionsgate)
• “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)

Best documentary feature

• “Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller (Oscilloscope Laboratories) A Magic Hour Films Production
• “The Cove” (Roadside Attractions) An Oceanic Preservation Society Production
• “Food Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein (Magnolia Pictures) A Robert Kenner Production
• “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith A Kovno Communications Production
• “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa A Mr. Mudd Production

Best documentary short subject

• “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill A Downtown Community Television Center Production
• “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardener” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher A Just Media Production
• “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichart A Community Media Production
• “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett A iThemba Production
• “Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra (Derkert Distribution) An MS Films Production

Achievement in film editing

• “Avatar” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, and James Cameron (20th Century Fox)
• “District 9” Julian Clarke (Sony Pictures Releasing)
• “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis (Summit Entertainment)
• “Inglourious Basterds” Sally Menke (The Weinstein Company)
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz (Lionsgate)

Best foreign language film of the year

• “Ajami” Israel (Kino International) An Inosan Production
• “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” Argentina (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haddock Films Production
• “The Milk of Sorrow” Peru A Wanda Visión/Oberon Cinematogràfica/Vela Production
• “Un Prophète” France (Sony Pictures Classics) A Why Not/Page 114/Chic Films Production
• “The White Ribbon” Germany (Sony Pictures Classics) A X Films Creative Pool/Wega Film/Les Films du Losange/Lucky Red Production

Achievement in makeup

• “Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano (MPI Media Group through Music Box)
• “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, and Joel Harlow (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)
• “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore (Apparition)

Achievement in music written for motion picture (Original score)

• “Avatar” James Horner (20th Century Fox)
• “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat (20th Century Fox)
• “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders (Summit Entertainment)
• “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer (Warner Brothers)
• “Up” Michael Giacchino (Walt Disney)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman (Walt Disney)
• “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyrics by Randy Newman (Walt Disney)
• “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner, Lyrics by Frank Thomas (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston (The Weinstein Company)
• “The Weary Kind” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (Fox Searchlight)

Best motion picture of the year

• “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers (20th Century Fox) A Lightstorm Entertainment Production
• “The Blind Side” (Warner Brothers) An Alcon Entertainment Production
• “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers (Sony Pictures Releasing) A Block/Hanson Production
• “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers (Sony Pictures Classics) A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production
• “The Hurt Locker” (Summit Entertainment) A Voltage Pictures Production
• “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer (The Weinstein Company) A Weinstein Company/Universal Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and Gary Magness, Producers (Lionsgate) A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment Production
• “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers (Focus Features) A Working Title Films Production
• “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer (Walt Disney) A Pixar Production
• “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman, and Jason Reitman, Producers (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios) A Montecito Picture Company Production

Best animated short film

• “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert A Pumpkin Factory/Bibo Films Production
• “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell (Brown Bag Films) A Brown Bag Films Production
• “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia A Kandor Graphics and Green Moon Production
• “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin (Autour de Minuit) An Autour de Minuit Production
• “A Matter of Loaf amd Death” Nick Park (Aardman Animations) An Aardman Animation Production

Best live action short film

• “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn (Network Ireland Television) An Octagon Films Production
• “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström (The Swedish Film Institute) A Directörn &Fabriköm Production
• “Kavi” Gregg Helvey A Gregg Helvey Production
• “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey (Premium Films) A Druid Films Production
• “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson A Park Pictures and M & M Production

Achievement in sound editing

• “Avatar” Christopher Boyes & Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (20th Century Fox)
• “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottoson (Summit Entertainment)
• “Inglourious Basterds” Wylie Stateman (The Weinstein Company)
• “Star Trek” Mark Stoeckinger & Alan Rankin (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)
• “Up” Michael Silvers & Tom Myers (Walt Disney)

Achievement in sound mixing

• “Avatar” Christopher Bynes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, and Tony Johnson (20th Century Fox)
• “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottoson and Ray Beckett (Summit Entertainment)
• “Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, and Mark Ulano (The Weinstein Company)
• “Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, and Peter J. Devlin (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)
• “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, and Geoffrey Patterson (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, Distributed by Paramount)

Achievement in visual effects

• “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, and Andrew R. Jones (20th Century Fox)
• “District 9” Dan Kauffman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, and Matt Aitken (Sony Pictures Releasing)
• “Star Trek” Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, and Burt Dalton (Paramount and Spyglass Entertainment)

Adapted screenplay

• “District 9” Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (Sony Pictures Releasing)
• “An Education” Screenplay by Nick Hornby (Sony Pictures Classics)
• “In the Loop” Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche (IFC Films)
• “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher (Lionsgate)
• “Up in the Air” Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)

Original screenplay

• “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal (Summit Entertainment)
• “Inglourious Basterds” Written by Quentin Tarantino (The Weinstein Company)
• “The Messenger” Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Movermen (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
• “A Serious Man” Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (Focus Features)
• “Up” Screenplay by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, and Tom McCarthy (Walt Disney)