Justin at the Movies

Oscar Nominations

// February 2nd, 2010 // Random Movie Musings

Here are the oscar nominations that were announced this morning. If the actual nominations are any different then my predictions I noted it out to the side. Here are the nominations in the top categories.

Best Supporting Actress

Vera Farmiga–Up In The Air

Penelope Cruz–Nine

Anna Kendrick– Up In the Air   (I predicted Melanie Laurent–Inglourious Basterds)

Mo’Nique–Precious

Maggie Gyllenhaal– Crazy Heart   (I predicted Julianne Moore–A Single Man)

Best Supporting Actor

Stanley Tucci–The Lovely Bones

Christoph Waltz–Inglourious Basterds

Matt Damon–Invictus

Christopher Plummer–The Last Station     (I wasn’t lying about the required one really old dude nomination)

Woody Harrelson–The Messenger

Best Actress

Meryl Streep–Julie & Julia

Sandra Bullock–The Blind Side

Carey Mulligan–An Education

Gabourey Sidibe–Precious

Helen Mirren–The Last Station

Best Actor

George Clooney–Up In The Air

Jeff Bridges–Crazy Heart

Colin Firth–A Single Man

Morgan Freeman–Invictus

Jeremy Renner–The Hurt Locker

Best Director

Quentin Tarantino–Inglourious Basterds

Kathryn Bigelow–The Hurt Locker

James Cameron–Avatar

Jason Reitman–Up In The Air

Lee Daniels–Precious

Best Picture

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious

Up In The Air

The Blind Side    (I predicted Star Trek)

A Serious Man

Up–     (Told ya so.)

An Education    (I predicted In The Loop)

District 9

*Out of 35 nominations, I correctly predicted 31. That is 88%! I must say that I did pretty good. Now to pat myself on the back…….that felt good. I honestly cannot believe in any world that the Blind Side got nominated for best picture! What has this world come to?! I blah all over that movie. Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead all movies with 9 nominations each. Inglourious Basterds got 8, Precious and Up In The Air both got 6, Up got 5, and District 9 got 4. Overall I think the nominations are pretty good. But one thing that I absolutely have to point out is that Avatar is 1 of only 2 movies that is nominated for best picture that isn’t nominated for a writing award. That’s right, my guarantee that it wouldn’t get nominated for writing came true. But it’s not like it took a genius to predict that. And the other movie that isn’t nominated for writing is The Blind Side, which shouldn’t be nominated for best picture anyway, but at least it is nominated for acting. Avatar isn’t nominated for any writing awards or any acting awards. Hmm…..