Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock in John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side (top); Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (bottom)
Producer credits for 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees The Blind Side and The Hurt Locker have been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Producers Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows:
The Blind Side – Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, producers.
The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, producers.
As per the Academy's press release, "Academy rules state that normally no more than three producers may be named as nominees in the Best Picture category. However, the rules allow for an additional producer to be named under extraordinary circumstances. In finding that all of the producers of The Hurt Locker had fully functioned as genuine producers of the film, the committee chose to exercise the 'extraordinary circumstances' provision of the rules."
Last year, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella, Donna Gigliotti, and Redmond Morris shared producer credits for Best Picture nominee The Reader. Both Minghella and Pollack were dead by the time the nominations were announced.
Producers for the other eight motion pictures nominated in the 2010 Best Picture category – Avatar, District 9, An Education, Inglourious Basterds, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, A Serious Man, Up and Up in the Air – were announced on February 2 and remain unchanged.
The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center. In the US, it'll be televised live by ABC.
Photos: The Blind Side (Ralph Nelson / Warner Bros.); The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment)