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Best Picture:
Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air
Actor in a Leading Role:
Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman, Jeremy Renner
Actress in a Leading Role:
Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe, Meryl Streep
Directing:
Avatar, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Up in the Air, Precious
LOS ANGELES – The visually stunning fantasy “Avatar” and the gripping military drama “The Hurt Locker” will battle for top honors at tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood, while Sandra Bullock and Jeff Bridges will look to cap off a successful awards season by taking home the top acting Oscars.
“Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker” each have a leading nine nominations heading into the ceremony at the Kodak Theatre, and they sit atop a field of best-picture nominees that was expanded to 10 this year in hopes of generating more interest in the festivities and more competition for the top prize.
While “Avatar” has been dominant at the box office, “The Hurt Locker” has been an awards-season favorite, earning the top prize from the Producers Guild of America and a best director award for Kathryn Bigelow. Both the PGA and DGA awards have traditionally been precursors to Oscar glory.
Quentin Tarantino’s World War II yarn “Inglourious Basterds” has eight nominations, while the gritty teen drama “Precious: Based on the Novel `Push’ by Sapphire” and the high-flying recessionary romance “Up in the Air” each have six.
Other films up for best picture are “The Blind Side,” “District 9,” “An Education,” “A Serious Man” and “Up.”
Despite the expanded field, the best-picture race is widely expected to be a shootout between “Avatar,” directed by three-time Oscar winner James Cameron, and “The Hurt Locker,” directed by Bigelow, Cameron’s ex-wife.
The pair will also compete for best-directing honors, along with Lee Daniels for “Precious,” Tarantino for “Inglourious Basterds” and Jason Reitman for “Up in the Air.” Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever nominated for a directing Oscar.
Bridges, who turned in a solid performance as an aging, hard-drinking country singer in “Crazy Heart,” is an easy front-runner to be named best actor, thanks to his Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards.
He will compete in the category with George Clooney, who plays a high-flying, relationship-challenged businessman in “Up in the Air”; Colin Firth for his turn as a gay, suicidal college professor in “A Single Man”; Morgan Freeman for his portrayal of Nelson Mandela in director Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus”; and Jeremy Renner, for his turn as the leader of an elite bomb-disposal unit in Iraq.
Bullock, who broke free from her comfortable romantic-comedy niche to portray determined Southern housewife Leigh Ann Tuohy in “The Blind Side” has already won Golden Globe and SAG awards for her role, giving her an edge heading into tonight’s Oscars. But she could face a challenge from the always-formidable Meryl Streep, who give a pitch-perfect portrayal of cooking legend Julia Child in “Julie & Julia.”
Streep has a record 16 Oscar nominations in her career, but she hasn’t won one since “Sophie’s Choice” in 1982.
Also nominated are previous Oscar winner Helen Mirren for her role as Leo Tolstoy’s wife in “The Last Station”; young British actress Carey Mulligan for her turn as a smitten schoolgirl in “An Education”; and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe, whose first film role was the abused teenager in “Precious.”
Austrian actor Christoph Waltz appears to be a lock for the supporting-actor Oscar for his role as a Jew-hunting Nazi intelligence officer in “Inglourious Basterds.” He is nominated along with Matt Damon for “Invictus,” Woody Harrelson for “The Messenger,” Christopher Plummer for “The Last Station” and Stanley Tucci for “The Lovely Bones.”
Comedian-turned-dramatic-actress Mo’Nique has been dominating the supporting-actress categories this year for her performance as an abusive mother in “Precious.” She will vie for the Oscar against Penelope Cruz for “Nine,” Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick for “Up in the Air” and Maggie Gyllenhaal for “Crazy Heart.”
“The Hurt Locker” writer Mark Boal is nominated for best original screenplay, along with Tarantino for “Inglourious Basterds,” Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman for “The Messenger,” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for “A Serious Man” and Bob Peterson and Pete Docter for “Up.”
For best adapted screenplay, the nominees are Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for “District 9″; Nick Hornby for “An Education”; Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Lannucci and Tony Roche for “In the Loop”; Geoffrey Fletcher for “Precious: Based on the Novel `Push’ by Sapphire”; and Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner for “Up in the Air.”
“Up,” along with its best-picture nomination, is nominated in the best animated feature film category, along with “Coraline,” “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” “The Princess and the Frog,” and “The Secret of Kells.”
The best foreign language film nominees are “Ajami” from Israel, “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” from Argentina, “The Milk of Sorrow” from Peru, “Un Prophete” from France, and “The White Ribbon” from Germany.
The awards ceremony, which will be televised live on ABC throughout the United States and in more than 200 countries worldwide, will be co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, who starred
this year with Streep in the romantic comedy “It’s Complicated.”
AS THE 82nd Academy Awards loom Hollywood stars run through their lines in preparation for the big night.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Winslet and Twilight star Taylor Lautner have all rehearsed their lines during the Oscars dress rehearsal before donning their best outfits to take to the red carpet this evening.
This year’s top movie ceremony has become a David and Goliath battle between multi-million pound science fiction spectacle Avatar and the tense Iraq War drama, The Hurt Locker.
The films are seen as the dominating forces at this year’s Oscars, equally matched with nine nominations each.
With colourful creatures bursting and swooping out of the cinema screen, Avatar is a 3D science fiction spectacle and the biggest film of all time.
Meanwhile, tense Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, made for a fraction of Avatar’s budget, has gathered momentum with widespread critical acclaim.
Plaudits showered on both films have seen Avatar director James Cameron frequently finding himself nominated against his ex-wife, Hurt Locker film-maker Kathryn Bigelow.
Avatar was being tipped for Oscar triumph from the beginning of 2010, after it scored a double victory at the Golden Globes in January.
Cameron won the director gong for the movie at the US ceremony in an echo of his success 12 years before, when Titanic received best drama and the directing prize before sweeping the board at the Academy Awards.
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Avatar recently surpassed Cameron’s Titanic – and saw the director beat his own record – when the film became the highest grossing movie ever.
The movie has taken £86 million at the UK box office alone.
The Hurt Locker has been gathering steam in recent weeks, cleaning up at the Baftas with six awards, while Avatar, said to be the most expensive film made, won two.
The director and best picture categories at the Academy Awards are expected to be yet another showdown between Cameron and Bigelow.
Bigelow also triumphed at the Directors Guild of America awards, becoming the first woman to win the guild’s top honour.
She is only the fourth female best director nominee in Oscar history and would be the first female winner.
NOMINATIONS
Best actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
George Clooney (Up In The Air)
Colin Firth (A Single Man)
Morgan Freeman (Invictus)
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
Best supporting actor
Matt Damon (Invictus)
Woody Harrelson (The Messenger)
Christopher Plummer (The Last Station)
Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones)
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Best actress
Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Helen Mirren (The Last Station)
Carey Mulligan (An Education)
Gabourey Sidibe (Precious)
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Best supporting actress
Penelope Cruz (Nine)
Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart)
Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air)
Mo’Nique (Precious)
Best adapted screenplay
District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education – Nick Hornby
In The Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Precious – Geoffrey Fletcher
Up In The Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best original screenplay
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Up – Bob Peterson, Pete Docter (story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom
McCarthy)
Best film
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air
Best director
Avatar – James Cameron
The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow
Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
Precious – Sapphire Lee Daniels
Up In The Air – Jason Reitman
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