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The 82nd Academy Award nominees were announced earlier this morning, officially starting the countdown for the culmination of awards season! Lots of familiar faces peppered the nominees, with films like "Avatar" and "Up in the Air" and "The Hurt Locker" receiving multiple nominations. "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" tied for most nominations, with nine each. "Inglourious Basterds" received 8 nominations and "Up in the Air" and "Precious" both walked away with six nods.
Check out how John and I react to the nominations in the videos below:
As for the nominees themselves, you can view the full list at Oscar.org, or just check out this list:
BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
"Avatar"
(20th Century Fox) A Lightstorm Entertainment Production; James Cameron
and Jon Landau, Producers
"The Blind Side"
(Warner Bros.)
An Alcon Entertainment Production
Nominees to be determined
"District
9"
(Sony Pictures Releasing) A Block/Hanson Production; Peter
Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
"An Education"
(Sony Pictures Classics) A Finola Dwyer/Wildgaze Films Production;
Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
"The Hurt Locker"
(Summit
Entertainment) A Voltage Pictures Production; Nominees to be determined
"Inglourious
Basterds"
(The Weinstein Company) A Weinstein Company/Universal
Pictures/A Band Apart/Zehnte Babelsberg Production; Lawrence Bender,
Producer
"Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
(Lionsgate) A Lee Daniels Entertainment/Smokewood Entertainment
Production
Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness,
Producers
"A Serious Man"
(Focus Features) A Working Title
Films Production; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
"Up"
(Walt Disney) A Pixar Production; Jonas Rivera, Producer
"Up in
the Air"
(Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and
DW Studios) A Montecito Picture Company Production; Daniel Dubiecki,
Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
PERFORMANCE BY
AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart"
(Fox Searchlight)
George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount
in association with Cold Spring Pictures and DW Studios)
Colin
Firth in "A Single Man" (The Weinstein Company)
Morgan Freeman
in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt
Locker" (Summit Entertainment)
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A
LEADING ROLE
Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner
Bros.)
Hellen Mirren in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures
Classics)
Carrie Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures
Classics)
Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel
'Push' by Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
Meryl Streep in "Julie &
Julia" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF
THE YEAR
"Coraline" (Focus Features)
Henry Selick
"Fantastic
Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox)
Wes Anderson
"The Princess and
the Frog" (Walt Disney)
John Musker and Ron Clements
"The
Secret of Kells" (GKIDS)
Tomm Moore"Up" (Walt Disney)
Pete
Docter
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"District 9" Written
by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (Sony Pictures Releasing)
"An
Education"Screenplay by Nick Hornby, (Sony Pictures Classics)
"In
the Loop" Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando
Iannucci, and Tony Roche, (IFC Films)
"Precious: Based on the
Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher,
(Lionsgate) "Up in the Air" Screenplay by Jason Reitman and
Sheldon Turner, (Paramount in association with Cold Spring Pictures and
DW Studios)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"The Hurt Locker"
Written by Mark Boal (Summit Entertainment)
"Inglourious
Basterds"Written by Quentin Tarantino, (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
"The
Messenger" Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman (IFC
Films)
"A Serious Man" Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen,
(Focus Features) "Up" Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter.
Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy (Walt Disney)
BEST
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
"Ajami" Israel
"El
Secreto de Sus Ojos"Argentina
"The Milk of Sorrow" Peru
"Un
Prophète" France "The White Ribbon" Germany
