Sunday, March 7, 2010

Happy Oscar Day!!!

I love the Academy Awards and will be watching (as usual) every minute of it live—from the moment the stars hit the red carpet to the very last award is handed out. With the battle for Best Picture this year, who wouldn't be able to watch?!

Herewith are my Oscar picks for the major categories:

Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Best Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Geroge Clooney,
Up in the Air
Colin Firth,
A Single Man
Morgan Freeman,
Invictus
Jeremy Renner,
The Hurt Locker

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, Inglourious Basterds

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren,
The Last Station
Carey Mulligan,
An Education
Gabourey Sidibe,
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Meryl Streep,
Julie & Julia

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Penelope Cruz,
Nine
Vera Farmiga,
Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick,
Up in the Air
Mo'Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Director
James Cameron,
Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino,
Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels,
Precious: based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Jason Reitman,
Up in the Air

Best Animated Feature
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Best Original Screenplay
Mark Boal,
The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman,
The Messenger
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen,
A Serious Man
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter and story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy,
Up

Best Adapted Screenplay
Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell,
District 9
Nick Hornby,
An Education
Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell,Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche,
In the Loop
Geoffrey Fletcher,
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Best Original Score
James Horner,
Avatar
Alexandre Desplat,
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders,
The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer,
Sherlock Holmes
Michael Giacchino, Up

Best Original Song
Music and lyrics by Randy Newman, "Almost There” from
The Princess and the Frog
Music and lyrics by Randy Newman, “Down in New Orleans” from
The Princess and the Frog
Music by Reinhardt Wagner and lyrics by Frank Thomas, “Loin de Paname” from
Paris 36
Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, “Take It All” from
Nine
Music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett, "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from Crazy Heart


(photo via Oscar.com)

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