Here are the nominees in the 10 major categories for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. Avatar and The Hurt Locker each scored nine nominations. Read the full post.
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District 9. Bravo!
Yes! I’m so happy to see it on the best picture list! It was definitely one of my favorites of the year.
you forgot A Serious Man in the best picture category
You left “A Serious Man” off of the Best Picture list.
Dave, why weren’t you on the Today show as usual this oscar nomination morning? are you on vacay somewhere?
oo! only 9 best picture nominees!
You left A Serious Man off the Best Picture list. I don’t really think it should be on the list, but it was nominated…
Forgot A Serious Man as best picture nominee.
Really? A movie can get nominated for Best Picture AND Best Animated Picture? Didn’t they make the latter category specifically for nominating animated movies?
And The Blind Side for Best Picture. Really? Look, I know it’s a great story a feel-good movie of the year and the highest-grossing female lead picture of all time or whatever, but you may as well have thrown Star Trek or Invictus in there.
Too bad the Oscars ultimately just come down all too often to popularity and politics.
Oh shutup! Hurt Locker is up there isn’t? How much did that gross 12 million? The Oscars finally put a popular film up there and people say its a popularity contest? If thats the case, then why wasn’t the Dark Knight nominated last year!
And wasn’t Star Trek really popular?
Members of the academy vote for their favorites so it is a popularity contest! Thats what awards are! Gawd!
o_O
That was my first thought–I thought that they had to choose between going for best picture and best animated. Was Beauty and the Beast nominated for both the year it got a nom for best picture?
They hadn’t created the Animated Film category at that time, I believe.
I agree- I just don’t think it’s right that an animated film can be eligible for Best Picture. They CREATED the Best Animated Film category FOR A REASON!!!
And I am also shocked that the Blind Side was nom’d and Invictus was not!
Why shouldn’t an animated film, just because it has its own category, be eligible for Best Picture? By that logic, then, no foreign-language film should be eligible? UP was easily among the best of the year.
Well, I don’t think that a foreign-language film can be nominated fro both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language film. Wasn’t there a discussion of this the year “Life is Beautiful” was collecting awards?
Seriously, Up was a great movie and I’m glad it was nominated. Why should some movies be relegated to a less prestigious category simply because they are animated? I just wish WallE was nominated last year, it deserved it as well.
People may not have liked that “Life is Beautiful” was nominated in both categories, but there’s no rule against it. It’s happened many times. The fact that foreign language and animated movies have their own category just makes it harder (or MADE it, when there were just 5 nominees…) to be nominated for Best Picture. I would argue that Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Ratatouille and The Incredibles all were among the 5 best of their year, but because they were relegated to the Best Animated category they were overlooked for a Best Picture nomination.
“Up” was a better MOVIE than the bulk of what came out in 2009, it doesn’t matter that it was animated. I’m very happy for the “Up” team and Pixar as a whole.
Colin Firth. Yeah, baby!
He was so amazing in A Single Man!
Stu’s song was not nominated! I call a recount!
Apparently, tigers do not dream of Oscar nominations….so sad. (But then, I’m one of those people who still thinks “Blame Canada” was robbed!)
lol..me too..screw you Phil Collins!
Laura, I completely am on your side! I adore “South Park” and thought it should have won. The soundtrack for “South Park:Bigger, Longer and Uncut” is amazing and far better than Phil Hartman’s dull song from “Tarzan”.
I was so looking forward to seeing if they actually nominated it.
Missing A Serious Man
The Blind Side? Really?
The second they announced The Blind Side as a best picture is when I realized that 10 nominations for Best Picture is a horrible idea.
Agreed. It’s pretty much a deadlock between The Hurt Locker and Avatar at this point.
The 10th pic is A Serious Man
You’re missing A Simple Man, Dave. My kudos to you, btw, for making so many correct predictions, including that Maggie G. would score a nom, and that Avatar and The Hurt Locker would both net 9 nominations. Man I love the announcing of the nominees.
Typed Simple, btw, as my son’s movie said the word “simple” while I was typing the title. Whoops.