| Best motion picture
of the year |
| Winner: |
The Hurt Locker
|
| Nominees: |
| Avatar |
| The Blind Side |
| District 9 |
| An Education |
| Inglourious Basterds |
| Precious: Based on the Novel "Push"
by Sapphire |
| A Serious Man |
| Up |
| Up in the Air |
| |
| Performance by an actor
in a leading role |
| Winner: |
| Jeff Bridges – Crazy
Heart |
| Nominees: |
| # George Clooney – Up in the Air |
| # Colin Firth – A Single Man |
| # Morgan Freeman – Invictus |
| # Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker |
| |
| Performance by an actor
in a supporting role |
| Winner: |
| Christoph Waltz – Inglourious
Basterds |
| Nominees: |
| # Matt Damon – Invictus |
| # Woody Harrelson – The Messenger |
| # Christopher Plummer – The Last Station |
| # Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones |
| |
| Performance by an actress
in a leading role |
| Winner: |
| Sandra Bullock – The
Blind Side |
| Nominees: |
| # Helen Mirren – The Last Station |
| # Carey Mulligan – An Education |
| # Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based
on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire |
| # Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia |
| |
| Performance by an actress
in a supporting role |
| Winner: |
Mo'Nique – Precious: Based
on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
|
| Nominees: |
| # Penélope Cruz – Nine |
| # Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air |
| # Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart |
| # Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air |
| |
| Best animated feature
film of the year |
| Winner: |
| Up – Pete Docter |
| Nominees: |
| # Coraline – Henry Selick |
| # Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson |
| # The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements
and John Musker |
| # The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore |
| |
| Achievement in art
direction |
| Winner: |
Avatar
Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg
Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair |
| Nominees: |
# The Imaginarium of Doctor 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 |
| |
| Achievement in cinematography |
| Winner: |
| Avatar – Mauro Fiore |
| Nominees: |
| # Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince –
Bruno Delbonnel |
| # The Hurt Locker – Barry Ackroyd |
| # Inglourious Basterds – Robert Richardson |
| # The White Ribbon – Christian Berger |
| |
| Achievement in costume
design |
| Winner: |
| The Young Victoria –
Sandy Powell |
| Nominees: |
| # Bright Star – Janet Patterson |
| # Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier |
| # The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus –
Monique Prudhomme |
| # Nine – Colleen Atwood |
| |
| Achievement in directing |
| Winner: |
| Kathryn Bigelow – The
Hurt Locker |
| Nominees: |
| # James Cameron – Avatar |
| # Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the
Novel "Push" by Sapphire |
| # Jason Reitman – Up in the Air |
| # Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds |
| |
| Best documentary feature |
| Winner: |
| The Cove – Louie Psihoyos
and Fisher Stevens |
| Nominees: |
| Burma VJ – Anders Østergaard
and Lise Lense-Møller |
| 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
subject |
| Winner: |
| Music by Prudence – Roger
Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett |
| Nominees: |
| # 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 |
| # Rabbit à la Berlin – Bartosz
Konopka and Anna Wydra |
| |
| Achievement in film
editing |
| Winner: |
| The Hurt Locker – Chris
Innis and Bob Murawski |
| Nominees: |
| # Avatar – James Cameron, John Refoua
and Stephen E. Rivkin |
| # District 9 – Julian Clarke |
| # Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke |
| # Precious: Based on the Novel "Push"
by Sapphire – Joe Klotz |
| |
| Best foreign language
film of the year |
| Winner: |
The Secret in Their Eyes
Argentina (in Spanish)
Juan José Campanella |
| Nominees: |
# Ajami
Israel (in Arabic and Hebrew)
Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani |
# The Milk of Sorrow
Peru (in Spanish and Quechua)
Claudia Llosa |
# A Prophet
France (in French, Corsican and Arabic)
Jacques Audiard |
# The White Ribbon
Germany (in German)
Michael Haneke |
| |
| Achievement in makeup |
| Winner: |
| Star Trek – Barney Burman,
Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow |
| Nominees: |
| # Il Divo – Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio
Sodano |
| # The Young Victoria – Jon Henry Gordon
and Jenny Shircore |
| |
| Achievement in music
written for motion pictures / Original score |
| Winner: |
| Up – Michael Giacchino |
| Nominees: |
| # Avatar – James Horner |
| # Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat |
| # The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami and
Buck Sanders |
| # Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer |
| |
| Achievement in music
written for motion pictures / Original song |
| Winner: |
"The Weary Kind"
from
Crazy Heart
Ryan Bingham and T-Bone
Burnett |
| Nominees: |
"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 |
| |
| Best animated short
film |
| Winner: |
| Logorama – Nicolas Schmerkin |
| Nominees: |
| 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 |
| A Matter of Loaf and Death – Nick Park |
| |
| Best live action short
film |
| Winner: |
| The New Tenants – Joachim
Back and Tivi Magnusson |
| Nominees: |
| 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 |
| |
| Achievement in sound
editing |
| Winner: |
| The Hurt Locker – Paul
N.J. Ottosson |
| Nominees: |
| Avatar – Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn
Yates Whittle |
| Inglourious Basterds – Wylie Stateman |
| Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan
Rankin |
| Up – Michael Silvers and Tom Myers |
| |
| Achievement in sound
mixing |
| Winner: |
| The Hurt Locker – Paul
N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett |
| Nominees: |
| Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers,
Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson |
| 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 |
| |
| Achievement in visual
effects |
| Winner: |
| Avatar – Joe Letteri,
Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew
R. Jones |
| Nominees: |
| District 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers,
Robert Habros, and Matt Aitken |
| Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl,
Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton |
| |
| Adapted screenplay |
| Winner: |
| Precious: Based on the Novel
"Push" by Sapphire – Geoffrey
Fletcher from Push by Sapphire |
| Nominees: |
| 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 |
| Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon
Turner from Up in the Air by Walter Kirn |
| |
| Original screenplay |
| Winner: |
| The Hurt Locker – Mark
Boal |
| Nominees: |
| # 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 |
| |
| Honorary Academy Awards |
| Winner: |
Lauren Bacall
Roger Corman
Gordon Willis |
| |
| Irving G. Thalberg
Memorial Award |
| Winner: |
John
Calley |
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