Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourous Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

Best Actor In A Leading Role
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
George Clooney – Up In The Air
Colin Firth – Single Man
Morgan Freeman – Invictus
Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker

Best Actress In A Leading Role
Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side
Helen Mirren – The Last Station
Carey Mulligan – An Education
Gabourey Sibide – Precious
Meryl Streep – Julie and Julia

Best Actor In A Supporting Role
Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglorious Basterds

Best Actress In A Supporting Role
Penelope Cruz – Nine
Vera Farminga – Up In Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick – Up In Air
Mo’Nique – Precious

Best Director
James Cameron – Avatar
Kathyn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino – Inglorious Basterds
Lee Daniels – Precious
Jason Reitman – Up In The Air

Foreign Language Film
Ajami
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon

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
Up In The Air

Best Animated Feature Film
Coraline
Fantastic Mr Fox
The Princess And The Frog
The Secret Of Kells
Up

Art Direction
Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

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

Costume Design
Bright Star
Coco Before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
The Young Victoria

Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc
Which Way Home

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

Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Make-up
Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Music (Original Score)
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Music (Original Song)
The Princess and the Frog
Paris 36
Nine
Crazy Heart

Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

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

Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Short film (Animated)
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Short Film (Live Action)
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

Oscar® winners to be revealed on Sunday, March 7, 2010.

Not all the best get nominated, but that’s why we can all have our own viewpoint. No doubt a large percentage of people will disagree with the winners, but that’s life as we know it.

I thought I’d write a piece about the closing ceremony, which was excellent.

I thought I’d write a post about the wonderful British section, where they accepted the flag and then introduced not only David Beckham (world and interplanetary superstar whatever planet you’ve been on) and then Jimmy Page playing those riff chords to ‘Whole Lotta Love.’ The humour the Brits intend to use in 2012 was obvious already. I just loved the lollipop ladies (Google it if you don’t know) and the red London bus.

Then they fucked up.

I thought I’d use their 2012 London Olympic game logo here to promote the event. They won’t let you use it unless you pay them tons of money. So this is what it looks like if you don’t pay

I thought I’d use their video of the London (closing ceremony) segment available to watch on the BBC download section and the London 2012 Olympics website; except they won’t let you run it outside of the UK. So here’s what it looks like if you don‘t live in the UK

I expect it’s on YouTube somewhere, but I can’t be bothered to help anymore and it’s still four years away. I’ll fly over and get tickets for some of the events, but I may not mention it again.

Is that what they intended in the marketing department?

How many times did you say ‘wow!’?

Firstly, apologies guys, this one beats all previous openings. How will the Brits beat that in 2012?

What would you have produced with the sort of financial plan used in that wonderful opening ceremony? The budget just for the fireworks alone would be sufficient for most special effects teams in Hollywood. Whoever wrote the script, did the pre-production, produced the event which needed no editing should be able to seek easy employment in California.

Disney couldn’t mix with those heart strings any more than this show. It read like a great script with all the good guys winning, as always, at the end, as predictable as any L.A. produced and financed main movie.

Doesn’t it bring a small tear to your eye when they light that flame? Doesn’t it make you feel good? Over two hundred countries playing together for honours that will last forever, just like those academy awards. There are large studio players with hundreds of athletes to the indies with less than a handful, all competing together. Sounds familiar?

Athletes; no cheating please. Good luck and accomplish your best.

China: sort out your human rights please. The world is watching. Impress. You’ve had an immense start and we want you to do well. We do wish you well. We may call more for our own teams as the games get going, but we’ll cheer on people from countries we may not have even heard of before.

On your marks, get set, you know the rest