44-D’s “Blog the Oscars”

Great news! 44-D has been given official press credentials by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®. We’ll be bringing you up to date information on the 82nd Academy Awards® nominees, films, and ceremony activities. This year’s Oscars® should be very interesting due to the fact that they are expanding the Best Picture category to include ten films instead of five.

Join us each day for news at the 44-D’s virtual red carpet to the Oscars®! We will be LIVE BLOGGING the Oscars® on Sunday, March 7th!

82nd Annual Academy Awards
Sunday, March 7, 2010

Hosts

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards. This will be Martin’s third time hosting the Oscars® and Baldwin’s first.

About the Academy

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is the world’s preeminent movie-related organization, with a membership of more than 6,000 of the most accomplished men and women working in cinema. In addition to the annual Academy Awards – in which the members vote to select the nominees and winners – the Academy presents a diverse year-round slate of public programs, exhibitions and events; provides financial support to a wide range of other movie-related organizations and endeavors; acts as a neutral advocate in the advancement of motion picture technology; and, through its Margaret Herrick Library and Academy Film Archive, collects, preserves, restores and provides access to movies and items related to their history. Through these and other activities the Academy serves students, historians, the entertainment industry and people everywhere who love movies.

82nd Academy Awards Nominations

Best Motion 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

• 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

Best Supporting Actor

• 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

Best Actress

• 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

Best Supporting Actress

• 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

Best Director

• Kathryn Bigelow ~ The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron ~ Avatar
• Quentin Tarantino ~ Inglourious Basterds
• Lee Daniels ~ Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
• Jason Reitman ~ Up in the Air

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Documentary Short

• 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

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ajami ~ Israel
• The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) ~ Peru
• A Prophet (Un Prophète) ~ France
• El Secreto de Sus Ojos (The Secret of Her Eyes) ~ Argentina
• The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) ~ Germany

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 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: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire ~ Geoffrey Fletcher
• Up in the Air ~ Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best in Cinematography

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

Best in Art Direction

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

Best Animated Short

• French Roast
• Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
• The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
• Logorama
• A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Live Action Short

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

Best in Visual Effects

• Avatar
• District 9
• Star Trek

Best in Costume Design

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

Best in Film Editing

• Avatar
• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Best In Sound Mixing

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

Best in Sound Editing

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

Best in Music (Original Score)

• Avatar
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Hurt Locker
• Sherlock Holmes
• Up

Best in Music (Original Song)

• Almost There Music and Lyric by Randy Newman from The Princess and the Frog
• Down in New Orleans Music and Lyric by Randy Newman from The Princess and the Frog
• Loin de Paname from Paris 36 Music by Reinhart Wagner, Lyrics by Frank Thomas
• Take It All Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston from Nine
• The Weary Kind Music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett from Crazy Heart

Best in Makeup

• Il Divo
• Star Trek
• The Young Victoria

44-D’s Blogs the Oscars Credits

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Reviewers include: Betsm, Ogenec, TheLCster, PBomb, Geot, Audiegrl, WillieBeyond, and more…

Many thanks to all who made the 44-D’s Blogs the Oscars project possible 🙂

44-D’s Virtual Red Carpet to the Oscars®

• The Hurt Locker Producer Nicolas Chartier BARRED From Oscars®
• Star in Your Own Oscars® Viewing Party!
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• 82nd Academy Awards® Dance Audition Photos
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• Anne Hathaway to Join Academy President Tom Sherak for Oscar® Nominations
• 80 Best Picture Posters to Premiere at the Academy
• Noel Coward’s Star Quality to Light Up Academy Gallery
• Danette Herman Named Coordinating Producer for Oscar® Telecast
• Dancers Wanted for 2009 Oscar® Show
• Palette Narrows to 7 in Oscar® Make-up Race
• Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Project
• Seven Features Continue in VFX Oscar® Race
• 15 Scientific and Technical Achievements to be Honored with Academy Awards®
• Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to Co-Host 2010 Oscars®

Academy President Sid Ganis announces that the 82nd Academy Awards®, will have 10 feature films vying in the Best Picture category.

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