The Oscar nominations are IN!

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Yes dahlings! The nominees were announced this morning. I've given you my picks thus far as well.



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

My pick so far:
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.

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"

My pick so far:
Jeff Bridges

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"

My pick so far:
Christoph Waltz

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"

My pick so far:
Gabourney Sidibe

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Penelope 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"

My pick so far:
Mo'Nique (even though I love Maggie ohsomuch)

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

My pick so far:
"Up"

Achievement in Directing
"Avatar" - James Cameron
"The Hurt Locker" - Kathryn Bigelow
"Inglourious Basterds" - Quentin Tarantino
"Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" - Lee Daniels
"Up in the Air" - Jason Reitman

My pick so far:
Quentin!!!!!! OMG. If James Cameron wins this I'mma have to choke a bitch.

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

My pick so far:

"The Weary Kind". Though yeah, there's Randy Newman, Mr. Oscar Warhorse again. Twice. *sigh*

By the way none of the nominated songs are going to be performed this year. Instead they'll be showing clips of the music in the movie as it was used.



Anyway those are the biggies. See the entire list here: http://oscar.go.com/

The 82nd Annual Academy Awards air on ABC Sunday March 7.
Tag team of Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosting. We'll see how that goes. I tend to prefer just ONE host.