Full list after the break:

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”
• George Clooney in “Up in the Air”
• Colin Firth in “A Single Man”
• Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”
• Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”

No surprises here.

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Matt Damon in “Invictus”
• Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”
• Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”
• Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”
• Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

Yay! Love for The Messenger and Stanley Tucci.

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”
• Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”
• Carey Mulligan in “An Education”
• Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
• Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”

No surprises here, either.

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Penélope Cruz in “Nine”
• Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”
• Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”
• Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”
• Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

I didn’t think that Maggie Gyllenhaal would be nominated. Since I like her a lot, I can only say: Great!

Animated feature film

• Up
• The Princess and the Frog
• Coraline
• Fantastic Mr Fox
• Secret of Kells

No love for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? And What the fuck is Secret of Kells? And I had hoped that they would nominate Mary and Max… Guess I’m out of luck there.

Art Direction

• Avatar
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Nine
• Sherlock Holmes
• The Young Victoria

One Oscar Avatar could actually rightfully win.

Cinematography

• Avatar
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglorious Basterds
• The White Ribbon

Harry Potter? Seriously?

Costume Design

• Bright Star
• Coco Before Chanel
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Nine
• The Young Victoria

Missing from this list: Chéri.

Directing

• Avatar (James Cameron)
• The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
• Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
• Jason Reitman (Up in the Air)
• Lee Daniels (Precious)

No surprises (though I’m still crying that Avatar takes up a spot here).

Best Documentary

• Burma VJ
• The Cove
• Food, Inc.
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
• Which Way Home

To the surprise of absolutely no one, I haven’t seen a single one of those movies.

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
• The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
• The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
• Music by Prudence
• Rabbit à la Berlin

Haven’t seen any of those, either.

Editing

• Avatar
• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglorious Basterds
• Precious

Fine.

Foreign language film

• Ajami (Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, Israel)
• A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, France)
• The Secret of Her Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina)
• The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany)
• The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Peru)

Managed to see exactly one film of this list (The White Ribbon).

Make-Up

• Il Divo
• Star Trek
• The Young Victoria

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)

Yay! Another nomination for Fantastic Mr. Fox! (I haven’t actually seen it yet or heard the music. This is just on principle.)

Original Song

• Almost There by Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)
• Down in New Orleans by Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)
• Loin de Paname by Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas (Paris 36)
• Take It All by Maury Yeston (Nine)
• The Weary Kind by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)

Has anyone ever heard of Paris 36?

Best animated short film

• French Roast
• Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
• The Lady and the Reaper
• Logorama
• A Matter of Loaf and Death

Hmm… Let’s see if I can watch them online somewhere.

Best live action short film

• The Door
• Instead of Abracadabra
• Kavi
• Miracle Fish
• The New Tenants

Sound Editing

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglorious Basterds
• Star Trek
• Up

Sound Mixing

• Avatar
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglorious Basterds
• Star Trek
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

I can’t believe Transformers would get a nomination for anything except a Razzie or ten.

Visual Effects

• Avatar
• District 9
• Star Trek

No love for Where the Wild Things Are? Very disappointing.

Writing (adapted screenplay)

• District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)
• An Education (Nick Hornby)
• Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
• Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
• In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche)

In the Loop? Where did that come from? And no love for Where the Wild Things Are here, either?

Writing (original screenplay)

• The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
• Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
• A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
• Up (Pete Docter and Bob Petersen)
• The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman)

Yay for The Messenger! Again! Other than that, no real surprises.

Best picture

• Avatar
• District 9
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• Up in the Air
• The Blind Side
• Up

Alright, what is Up doing in this category? It’s an animated movie, it’s in the animated category, why does it need to be here as well?
Other than that, no surprise appearances (except maybe The Blind Side).

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So, here we are. There are a lot of films with multiple nominations, though Avatar didn’t get as many as I had feared. (In fact, The Hurt Locker got as many nominations and that’s at least a little reassuring.)

The Young Victoria managed to get three nominations, which is surprising (though when you look at the categories, it isn’t any more).

Your thoughts?