The Complete Oscar Quest: 82nd Academy Awards (2009)

2009

Best Picture

  • Avatar
  • The Blind Side
  • District 9
  • An Education
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
  • A Serious Man
  • Up
  • Up in the Air

Best Director

  • Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
  • James Cameron, Avatar
  • Lee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
  • Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
  • Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

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 Actress

  • Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
  • Helen Mirren, The Last Station
  • Carey Mulligan, An Education
  • Gabourey Sidibe, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
  • Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor

  • Matt Damon, Invictus
  • Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
  • Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
  • Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
  • Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

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: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sappire

Best Original Screenplay

  • The Hurt Locker
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • The Messenger
  • A Serious Man
  • Up

Best Adapted Screenplay

  • District 9
  • An Education
  • In the Loop
  • Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sappire
  • Up in the Air

Best Editing

  • Avatar
  • District 9
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Best Cinematography

  • Avatar
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • The White Ribbon

Best Original Score

  • Avatar
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Up

Best Original Song

  • “Almost There,” from The Princess and the Frog
  • “Down in New Orleans,” from The Princess and the Frog
  • “Loin de Paname,” from Paris 36
  • “Take It All,” from Nine
  • “The Weary Kind,” from Crazy Heart

Best Art Direction

  • Avatar
  • The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  • Nine
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • The Young Victoria

Best Costume Design

  • Bright Star
  • Coco Before Chanel
  • The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  • Nine
  • The Young Victoria

Best Makeup

  • Il Divo
  • Star Trek
  • The Young Victoria

Best Visual Effects

  • Avatar
  • District 9
  • Star Trek

Best Sound Editing

  • Avatar
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Star Trek
  • Up

Best Sound Mixing

  • Avatar
  • The Hurt Locker
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Star Trek
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Best Animated Feature

  • Coraline
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • The Princess and the Frog
  • The Secret of Kells
  • Up

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Ajami
  • The Milk of Sorrow
  • A Prophet
  • The Secret in Their Eyes
  • The White Ribbon

Best Documentary

  • Burma VJ
  • The Cove
  • Food, Inc.
  • The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
  • Which Way Home

Best Documentary Short

  • China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of the Sichuan Province
  • The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
  • The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
  • Music by Prudence
  • Rabbit a la Berlin

Best Live-Action Short

  • The Door
  • Instead of Abracadabra
  • Kavi
  • Miracle Fish
  • The New Tenants

Best Animated Short

  • French Roast
  • Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
  • The Lady and the Reaper
  • Logorama
  • A Matter of Loaf and Death

Total List of Films Nominated:

  1. Avatar
  2. The Blind Side
  3. Bright Star
  4. Coco Before Chanel
  5. Coraline
  6. Crazy Heart
  7. District 9
  8. Il Divo
  9. An Education
  10. Fantastic Mr. Fox
  11. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  12. The Hurt Locker
  13. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
  14. In the Loop
  15. Inglourious Basterds
  16. Invictus
  17. Julie & Julia
  18. The Last Station
  19. The Lovely Bones
  20. The Messenger
  21. Nine
  22. Paris 36
  23. Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
  24. The Princess and the Frog
  25. The Secret of Kells
  26. A Serious Man
  27. Sherlock Holmes
  28. Star Trek
  29. A Single Man
  30. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  31. Up
  32. Up in the Air
  33. The White Ribbon
  34. The Young Victoria

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