Oscar Nominations: Who is your pick to win?

[Mr Wallstreet]

Below are the Noms:

Best Picture

AVATAR
THE BLIND SIDE
DISTRICT 9
AN EDUCATION
THE HURT LOCKER
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
PRECIOUS
A SERIOUS MAN
UP
UP IN THE AIR

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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

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Matt Damon, INVICTUS
Woody Harrelson, THE MESSENGER (and ZOMBIELAND ahem)
Christopher Plummer, THE LAST STATION
Stanley Tucci, THE LOVELY BONES
Christoph Waltz, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

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BEST ACTRESS
Sandra Bullock, THE BLIND SIDE
Helen Mirren, THE LAST STATION
Carey Mulligan, AN EDUCATION
Gabourey Sidibe, PRECIOUS
Meryl Streep, JULIE & JULIA

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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

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

Art Direction
Avatar
Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Cinematography
Avatar (editorial, WTF!?!)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon

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

Directing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: I am not typing it all out
Up in the Air

Documentary Feature
Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Which Way Home

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 a la Berlin

Film Editing
Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: still not typing it

Foreign Language Film
Ajsmi
El Secreto de Sus Ojos
The Milk of Sorrow
Un Prophete
The White Ribbon

Make-up
Il Divo
Star Trek
The young Victoria

Music (Original Score)
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Music (Original Song)
"Almost There" Princess and the frog
"Down in new Orlean"s The Princess and the Frog
"Loin de Paname" Paris 36
"Take it All" Nine
"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" Crazy Heart

Short Film Animated
French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Short Film Live Action
the Door
Instead of abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The new Tenants

Sound Editing
Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

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

Visual Effects
Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire (see I typed it at least once)
Up in the Air

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up

I'll post mine in a bit.

[XIII]

Best Picture
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, UP IN THE AIR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

BEST ACTRESS
Haven't seen any of them

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, NINE >> cause she's damn hot

Animated Feature Film
Fantastic Mr. Fox

Art Direction
Avatar

Cinematography
Inglourious Basterds

Directing
Inglourious Basterds

Foreign Language Film
Un Prophete

Visual Effects
Avatar

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
In the Loop

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Inglourious Basterds

Damn, I just gave everything to Tarantino!

[Mr Wallstreet]

Best Picture

Damn, I just gave everything to Tarantino!

You're a whore

Best Picture:
Hurt Locker
I don't think Inglorious Basterds will win because the Academy doesn't like to reward senseless violence (no matter how entertaining) and Precious won't win because the Academy similarly hates movies that, despite being phenomenal, are too depressing. UP, Up in the Air, Blindside and District 9 are all great films but not Best Picture type great films. Good on District 9 for getting the Nom, its nice to see a sci-film get some recognition. I think it’ll come down to Hurt Locker, Serious Man or An Education

Best Actor:
This one’ll come down between Colin Firth (A Single Man) and Morgan Freeman (Invictus) but my choice is Morgan Freeman

Best Supporting Actor:
Christopher Waltz: Inglorious Basterds

Best Actress:
Carey Mulligan

Best Supporting Actress:
Mo’Nique: Precious. Despite being an utterly depressing film I hear her performance was fantastic.

Animated Feature Film:
UP

Art Direction
Avatar

Cinematography
Avatar

Costume Design
Nine

Directing
Kathryn Bigelow for Hurt Locker

Writing (Adapted Screen Play)
Precious

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Inglorious Basterds. Tarintino HAS to win this if he doesn’t get Best Director

Visual Effects
Avatar

Short Animated Film:
I haven’t seen any so I’ll pick the one that sounds most interesting:
French Roast

Foreign Language Film:
The Milk of Sorrow

Documentary Short

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

[Tragic Angelus]

There was a time I would have seen about 99% of all of those movies by now. But instead, I've not seen a single one. I rarely see movies at all anymore. It's kinda sad.

[Mr Wallstreet]

Bcuz U R Gtting Old.

Lolz

[Tragic Angelus]

OMG NOWAI! Plz say thas not tru!!!

[jedispyder]

I still have 8 more films to have seen all of the main movies, but for the ones I've seen I'll say (and these are personal preferences, I know who is gonna win and most are not ones that I pick):

Best Picture
UP IN THE AIR

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BEST ACTOR
Jeremy Renner, THE HURT LOCKER

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

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BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep, JULIE & JULIA

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BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anna Kendrick, UP IN THE AIR

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Animated Feature Film
Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Art Direction
Avatar

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Cinematography
Inglourious Basterds

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Costume Design
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

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Directing
The Hurt Locker

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Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Up in the Air

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Writing (Original Screenplay)
Inglourious Basterds

[jedispyder]

You're a whore

Best Picture:
Hurt Locker
I don't think Inglorious Basterds will win because the Academy doesn't like to reward senseless violence (no matter how entertaining) and Precious won't win because the Academy similarly hates movies that, despite being phenomenal, are too depressing. UP, Up in the Air, Blindside and District 9 are all great films but not Best Picture type great films. Good on District 9 for getting the Nom, its nice to see a sci-film get some recognition. I think it’ll come down to Hurt Locker, Serious Man or An Education

Sorry to say but the Academy loves the depressing movies: Million Dollar Baby was quite the depressing movie and it won in 2004; Crash was semi-depressing

Best Supporting Actress:
Mo’Nique: Precious. Despite being an utterly depressing film I hear her performance was fantastic.

She was a complete and utter bitch. I wouldn't exactly call that acting, it's more along the lines of uber-PMSing