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Legend

• Probably gonna win
• Might win / Maybe
• If I had it my way
• Better not!
• Haven’t seen it / Can’t say

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 as Bad Blake
• George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
• Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sgt. William James

Best Actress

• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy
• Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy
• Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire as Claireece “Precious” Jones
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child

Best Supporting Actor

• Matt Damon – Invictus as François Pienaar
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Capt. Tony Stone
• Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey
• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

Best Supporting Actress

• Penélope Cruz – Nine as Carla Albanese
• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
• Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
• Mo’Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire as Mary Lee Johnston

Best Original Screenplay

• The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
• The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up – Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

Best Adapted Screenplay

• District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell from Alive in Joburg by Blomkamp
• An Education – Nick Hornby from An Education by Lynn Barber
• In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche from The Thick of It created by Iannucci
• Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher from Push by Sapphire
• Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner from Up in the Air by Walter Kirn

Best Animated Feature

• Coraline – Henry Selick
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson
• The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements and John Musker
• The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore
• Up – Pete Docter

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ajami (Israel) in Arabic and Hebrew – Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
• El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella
• The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) in Spanish and Quechua – Claudia Llosa
• Un Prophète (France) in French, Corsican and Arabic – Jacques Audiard
• The White Ribbon (Germany) in German – Michael Haneke

Best Documentary Feature

• Burma VJ – Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
• The Cove – Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
• Food, Inc. – Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers – Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
• Which Way Home – Rebecca Cammisa

Best Documentary Short

• China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province – Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
• The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner – Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
• The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant – Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
• Music by Prudence – Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
• Rabbit à la Berlin – Bartosz Konopka and Anna Wydra

Best Live Action Short

• The Door – Juanita Wilson and James Flynn
• Instead of Abracadabra – Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
• Kavi – Gregg Helvey
• Miracle Fish – Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
• The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

Best Animated Short

• French Roast – Fabrice O. Joubert
• Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty – Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell
• The Lady and the Reaper – Javier Recio Gracia
• Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin
• A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park

Best Original Score

• Avatar – James Horner
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat
• The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
• Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer
• Up – Michael Giacchino

Best Original Song

• “Almost There” from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
• “Down in New Orleans” from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman
• “Loin de Paname” from Paris 36 – Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
• “Take it All” from Nine – Maury Yeston
• “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett

Best Sound Editing

• Avatar – Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
• The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson
• Inglourious Basterds – Wylie Stateman
• Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
• Up – Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Best Sound Mixing

• Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
• The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett
• Inglourious Basterds – Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano
• Star Trek – Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Best Art Direction

• Avatar – Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
• The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
• Nine – Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
• Sherlock Holmes – Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
• The Young Victoria – Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

Best Cinematography

• Avatar – Mauro Fiore
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – Bruno Delbonnel
• The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd
• Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson
• The White Ribbon – Christian Berger

Best Makeup

• Il Divo – Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
• Star Trek – Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
• The Young Victoria – Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

Best Costume Design

• Bright Star – Janet Patterson
• Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier
• The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Monique Prudhomme
• Nine – Colleen Atwood
• The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell

Best Film Editing

• Avatar – James Cameron, John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin
• District 9 – Julian Clarke
• The Hurt Locker – Chris Innis and Bob Murawski
• Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke
• Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire – Joe Klotz

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
• District 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, and Matt Aitken
• Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton