Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (top); James Cameron, Sam Worthington on Avatar set (middle, upper); J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (middle, lower); Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend in The Young Victoria (bottom)
Oscar 2010 Predictions: The Winners
The 2010 Academy Award nominations will be announced in a few hours. So we're wrapping up our list of predictions in every category we can think of, from best cinematography to best animated short.
Most of the choices below are based on which movies have received nominations from the various guilds and associations. Others — e.g., best song, the short subjects categories — are mostly just plain old guesswork. Some of those categories may end up with less than five nominees.
Also, several categories have their own individual pages, with a brief (sometimes not so brief) explanation about the whys and hows of our choices: Best picture, Best documentary, best foreign language film, best director, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best original screenplay, best adapted screenplay, and Best film editing. The others are listed below.
Best animated feature: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Ponyo, A Town Called Panic, Up.
Best cinematography: Avatar, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, The White Ribbon.
Best original score: Avatar, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Star Trek, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Up.
Best original song: "Almost There," The Princess & the Frog; "Cinema Italiano," Nine; "I See You," Avatar; "Na Na," Couples Retreat; "The Weary Kind," Crazy Heart. (In case there are five nominees.)
Best art direction: District 9, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Lovely Bones, Nine, Sherlock Holmes.
Best costume design: Coco Before Chanel, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Nine, A Single Man, The Young Victoria.
Best sound editing: Avatar, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Star Trek, 2012.
Best sound mixing: Avatar, District 9, The Hurt Locker, Nine, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Best visual effects: Avatar, District 9, 2012.
Best makeup: District 9, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Star Trek.
Best live action short: Instead of Abracadabra, Kavi, Miracle Fish, The Response, Sidney Turtlebaum.
Best animated short: The Cat Piano, Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty, The Kinematograph, The Lady and the Reaper, A Matter of Loaf and Death.
Best documentary short: China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, Lt. Watada, Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, Woman Rebel
Photos: The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment); Avatar (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox); The Young Victoria (Apparition); Star Trek (Industrial Light & Magic / Paramount)
"A Single Man" is certainly a possibility. But Mauro Fiore ("Avatar") did get a nomination from the American Society of Cinematographers.
"Coco Before Chanel," as you've said, was screened in France (and the US). But "Bright Star" could certainly be nominated in the best costume design category as well.
Some of those categories were tough because there are many possible contenders. In about 7 hours we'll find out how well (or not) we at Alt Film Guide did…
oh sorry. I'm wrong about the coco before chanel movie. I'm thinking of another movie similar to that one but still i doubt that it will be nominated.
Coco Before Chanel is a movie made for television and is definitely not qualified to be a nominee. You should put Bright Star for best costume
Tranformers 2 should be nominated for best visual effects and remove District 9.
The Climb by Miley Cyrus might be a surprise nominee for best original song.
What?! A Single Man should be nominated for best cinematography. I think Avatar is not qualified for best cinematography coz it's all special effects.
BRIGHT STAR for best cinematography.
BRIGHT STAR for best art direction.
Do you really think they'll go for a HARRY POTTER movie?