Bollywood Deserves Its Own Oscar Category

Bollywood Deserves Its Own Oscar Category
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jennifer_Hopfinger]Jennifer Hopfinger

The 81st Academy Awards ceremony in 2009 has been referred to as the "Indian Oscars" because the film 'Slumdog Millionaire' won eight awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film is set in India, the actors are Indian, one-third of the dialogue is in Hindi (one of India's many languages), and there's a Bollywood-style song at the end, but it is not, as many Americans believe, an Indian movie. The filmmakers, including the director Danny Boyle, are British. Only three of the film's eight Academy Awards went to Indians: legendary composer A.R. Rahman won Best Original Score, Rahman and lyricist Gulzar won Best Original Song, and Resul Pookutty won Best Sound Mixing-which is not to be confused with Best Sound Editing. Yes, there are two separate Academy Awards for sound production, as well as two awards for documentary, two awards for animation, and three awards for short film. At the 82nd Academy Awards to be held in 2010, the number of Best Picture nominees will double to 10. And yet, there is only one award for Best Foreign Language Film, chosen from a mere five nominees. Bollywood, the largest film industry in the world in terms of film output and audience numbers, has never won that award. And it's not because Bollywood films don't deserve the honor.

Over the last 20 years, the countries that have dominated the best foreign film category are France (10 nominations, 1 win), Germany (8 nominations, 2 wins), Italy (6 nominations, 3 wins), Spain (5 nominations, 3 wins), and Russia (five nominations, 1 win). Non-European countries have taken the award home only four times in the past two decades: Japan in 2008, South Africa in 2005, Canada in 2003 (the film was in French), and Taiwan in 2000. An Indian film has only been nominated three times in the history of the award: 'Mother India' in 1957, 'Salaam Bombay' in 1988, and 'Lagaan' in 2001.

Maybe the category should be renamed Best European Film for the sake of accuracy. And while the Academy is at it, it could add a new category: Best Bollywood Film.

The ceremony is already way too long, but eliminating or combining some of the redundant categories previously mentioned would make time for exciting news ones-and excitement is what that ceremony needs. What could liven it up more than the spectacle of Bollywood? Why, it would bring back the glitz and glamour of Old Hollywood. Think of the red carpet-all those stunning stars in shimmering saris and silk sherwanis! The fashion commentators would flip. American celebs wouldn't even compare in their identical tuxes and blah-black gowns.

But, alas, it's not to be-at least not in 2010. There will be no trace of Bollywood at all next year.

The Film Federation of India selected a Marathi-language film, 'Harishchandrachi Factory,' as India's official submission for the 2010 Academy Awards in the best foreign film category. The film beat 15 nominees, including several mainstream Bollywood movies such as 'Fashion,' 'New York,' and 'Delhi-6.' This is the second time India has sent a Marathi film to the Academy-the first was 'Shwaas' in 2004. 'Harishchandrachi Factory' is a feature film about the making of India's first feature film, 'Raja Harishchandra,' in 1913. (India's film industry predates America's by one year-Hollywood's first feature film was shot in 1914.)

The Film Federation of India, which chooses India's Oscar submissions, is an umbrella trade organization that represents all of India's film industries. That's right-Bollywood is only one of many in India. Imagine if the U.S. had a thriving Spanish-language film industry that gave Hollywood a run for its money, or regional film industries in Chicago, Atlanta, and Seattle that rivaled L.A.'s. That's how it is in India. The term "Bollywood" refers to the Hindi-language film industry based in the city of Mumbai, which was formerly known as Bombay. The country's other film industries include Kollywood, which refers to Tamil-language films made in the Kodambakkam district in the city of Chennai; Mollywood, which is Malayalam-language cinema in the state of Kerala; and Tollywood, which refers to both Telugu-language films from the state of Andhra Pradesh and Bengali-language films made in the Tollygunge neighborhood of Kolkata. (Marathi-language cinema is too small to get a nickname.)

The way the Best Foreign Language Film category works is this: each country is invited to submit one film to the Academy Awards for consideration, the Academy then narrows those submissions down to five nominees, and one of the nominees is then voted the winner. But Bollywood has to pass through two hurdles: first it has to compete with other Indian film industries and then compete on a global platform that's biased toward Europe.

There's another reason Bollywood movies don't stand a chance of winning. Like Hollywood, Bollywood is a commercial movie industry-for the most part, it makes popular cinema, not art film. And the nominees in the foreign film category are typically very arty. Even Hollywood's Best Picture winners wouldn't have won in that category. In a one-on-one competition, would the 1999 Best Picture winner 'Shakespeare in Love' have beaten the foreign film winner, Italy's 'Life is Beautiful'? Not a chance. Would the 1995 winner 'Forrest Gump' have beaten Russia's 'Burnt by the Sun,' which won the foreign film Oscar and the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year? No way.

So the likelihood of Bollywood ever winning the foreign film award is slim. Not that Indians really care because they have their own awards ceremonies-namely, the Filmfare Awards. There are no boring categories at that event and there are some pretty interesting ones to boot-like "Best Villain," "Best Male/Female Debut," and "Best Dialogue." Even the statue is better-instead of a muscular gold man that resembles a creepy, naked Ken doll, Filmfare winners get a figurine of a curvy dark lady. When it comes to entertainment, Bollywood simply knows how to entertain, even at awards ceremonies. It's a shame it won't get an Oscar for it.

Jennifer Hopfinger is the editor The Bollywood Ticket ( http://www.thebollywoodticket.com), the American guide to Indian movies. The Bollywood Ticket looks at Hindi films from an American perspective, giving U.S. fans a chance to explore India's fascinating cinema with relatable news, reviews, and commentary.

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The Oscar nominations 2010 were announced at an event!!

The Oscar nominations 2010 were announced at an event hosted by Neil Patrick Harris and Patricia Clarkson this morning. If you pay attention to movies are all in 2009, most applications do not surprise you. With ten nominations for best film, almost all ended with the slightest touch of Oscar make the cut. At least five of these films still have a realistic chance. Ten films or not, is ultimately the Academy chooses a film Inglourious Basterds as populist as the best picture winner.
It's just an honor to be nominated, is not it? And I am sure that Michelle Duggar who all remember the names of their children, too.
The ceremony will take place next month and will be moderated by Stephen Colbert. Here are the nominees in major categories:

Best Picture
- In the air, directed by Jason Reitman.
- Lovely, directed by Lee Daniels
- Up, Director: Bob Peterson and Pete Doctor
- Nine, directed by Rob Marshall
- The Road, directed by John Hilcoat
- The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter Jackson.
- "Avatar", directed by James Cameron.
- The Boys Are Back directed by Scott Hicks.
- Inglourious Basterds, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
- We Go Away, directed by Sam Mendes

Best Director
- James Cameron, Avatar
- Jason Reitman, in the air,
- Scott Hicks, The Boys Are Back
- Rob Marshall, Nine
- Peter Jackson, The Lovely Bones

Best Actor
- George Clooney, in the air,
- Robert De Niro, Everybody's Fine
- Viggo Mortenson, The Road
- Daniel Day-Lewis, nine
- Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Best Actress
- Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
- Gabby "Gabourey" Sidibe, Precious
- Hilary Swank, Amelia
- Rachel Weisz, The Lovely Bones
- Carey Mulligan, an education

Best Supporting Actor
- Christoph Walz, Inglourious Basterds
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, pirate radio stations
- Robert Duvall, The Road
- Peter Saarsgard, Education
- Peter Capaldi, In the Loop

Best Supporting Actress
- Anna Kendrick, in the air,
- Susan Sarandon, The Lovely Bones
- Marion Cotillard, Public Enemies
- Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds
- Allison Janney, We Go Away

Best Original Screenplay
- The Brothers Bloom, Rian Johnson
- Away We Go "by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vinda
- (500) days of summer, by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber,
- Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino's
- Up by Bob Peterson, Pete Doctor, and Thomas McCarthy,

Best Adapted Screenplay
- The path of Joe Penhall
- In the air, by Jason Reitman
- Where the Wild Things Are, by Dave Eggers
- Beautiful, by Geoffrey Fletcher
- Coraline, Henry Selick

Oscar nominations for 2010 were released today!

Oscar nominations for 2010 were released today, with Avatar and The Hurt Locker at the top, each with nine nominations.
The nominees for the Academy Awards this year, James Cameron's Avatar will go head to make with his former wife, Kathryn Bigelow, who heads The Hurt Locker.
Both films will compete for Best Director and Best Film - whatever Inglorious Basterds, in the air, and an education, compete for the title.
SCROLL down to to the 2010 Oscar nominations in full ...
To day, have won only four women, the leadership of the Academy Awards, including Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation and Jane Campion, 2003 for The Piano in 1993.
Dame Helen Mirren, Colin Firth and Carey Mulligan the way for the British talent in the categories of best actor and actress for the last station, a man and education, respectively.
The British hope as some strong competition from the likes of Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Sandra Bullock - is touted as the favorite for best actress - in their groups.
Nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards were announced by the Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway in Los Angeles.
Christoph Inglorious Basterds' Waltz - that is deflected by rule after his Oscar was won Golden Globes -) is up for Best Supporting Actor, starring Matt Damon (Invictus), Woody Harrelson (The Messenger), Christopher Plummer (last season, and Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones).
(Nine Penelope Cruz), Vera Farmiga (in air), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart), Anna Kendrick (in air) and Mo'Nique (Edel) are candidates for best supporting actress.
2010 Oscar nominees in full:
Best Picture: Avatar The Blind Side 9. Arrondissement An education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious: Based on the novel Push ',' by Sapphire A Serious Man Up In the air
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart George Clooney, in the air, Colin Firth, a single man, Morgan Freeman, Invictus Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, the last station Carey Mulligan, an education Gabourey Sidibe is precious: Based on the novel Push ',' by Sapphire Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Best Actor: Matt Damon, Invictus Woody Harrelson, The Messenger Christopher Plummer, the last station Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, Nine Vera Farmiga, in the air, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart Anna Kendrick, in the air, Mo'Nique, Gemstones: Based on a novel push ',' by Sapphire
Best Director: James Cameron, Avatar Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Bastards Lee Daniels, Gemstones: Based on the novel Push ',' by Sapphire Jason Reitman in the air,
Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker Quentin Tarantino, Inglorious Bastards Alessandro Camon, and Oren Moverman, The Messenger Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, a serious man Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy, upward.
Animated Film: Coraline Fantastic Mr. Fox The Princess and the Frog The Secret of Kells Up
Foreign Language Film: Ajami, Israel, The Secret of Their Eyes, Argentina The Empty Nest, Peru A prophet, France, The White Ribbon, Germany.
Adapted Screenplay: Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, Kreis 9 Nick Hornby, Education Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche In the Loop, Geoffrey Fletcher Precious: Based on the novel Push ',' by Sapphire Jason Reitman, and Sheldon Turner, in the air,
Art direction: Avatar The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Nine Sherlock Holmes The Young Victoria
Photo: Avatar Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds The White Ribbon
Sound Mixing: Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Star Trek Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Sound Editing: Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Star Trek Up
Original music: Avatar, James Horner Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alexandre Desplat The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders Sherlock Holmes, Hans Zimmer, Up, Michael Giacchino
Original Song: Almost There, The Princess and the Frog Randy Newman, in New Orleans from the Princess and the Frog Randy Newman Loin de Paname de Paris 36 Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas, Take It All Nine, Maury Yeston Tired type (Theme from Crazy Heart), Ryan Bingham, and T-Bone Burnett
Costumes: Brightstar Coco Before Chanel The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Nine Queen Victoria.
Documentary: Burma VJ The Cove Foods, Inc The most dangerous man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Which Way Home
Documentary (short): Unnatural Disaster in China: The tears of Sichuan Province The last campaign of Governor Booth Gardner The last bus: the closure of GM plant Music by prudence rabbit Berlin
Issue: Avatar District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious: Based on the novel Push ',' by Sapphire
Make-up: Il Divo Star Trek The Young Victoria
Animated Short Film: French Roast Sleeping Beauty's Granny O'grimm Lady and the Reaper (The Lady and Death) Logorama, A ª 'Matter of Loaf and Death
Live Action Short Film: La Puerta Instead of Abracadabra Kavi Miracle Fish The new tenant
Visual Effects: Avatar District Star Trek

Oscar 2010 Nominations

Best Film of the Year

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), a Lightstorm Entertainment production, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
    * "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.), for Alcon Entertainment Production, the nominees are
    * "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing), Block A / production Hanson, Peter Jackson, Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
    * "A" Education (Sony Pictures Classics), A Wildgaze Finola Dwyer Production Films, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, the manufacturer
    * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), an output voltage Pictures, nominees are determined
    * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), A Weinstein / Company Universal Pictures / A Band Apart / Tenth Babelsberg production, Lawrence Bender, producer of
    * "Precious: Based on the novel Push" by Sapphire (Lionsgate), a Lee Daniels Entertainment / Smokewood entertainment production company, Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel Magness and Gary Magness, producers
    * "A Serious Man" (Focus Features) A Working Title Films Production, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
    * "Up" (Walt Disney), a Pixar production, Jonas Rivera, Producer
    * "Up in the Air" (Paramount, under cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW), a Montecito Picture Company production, Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, the producer
Best foreign film of the year

    * "Ajami" (Kino International), a production Inos, Israel,
    * "The Secret of Their Eyes" (Sony Pictures Classics), a production of Haddock Films, Argentina
    * "The Empty Nest" A Wanda / Vision Oberon film / Sailing Production, Peru
    * "A Prophet" (Sony Pictures Classics), a "why not / 114/Chic Page Films Production, France
    * "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics), an X-Filme Creative Pool / Wega Film / Les Films du Losange / Lucky Red production, Germany
Best Documentary

    * "Burma VJ" (Oscilloscope Laboratories), A Magic Hour Films Production, Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
    * "The Cove" (Roadside Attractions) a production Oceanic Preservation Society, the nominees are determined
    * "Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures) by Robert Kenner Films Production, Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein
    * "The most dangerous man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers," a production of Kovno Communications, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
    * "Which Way Home," a production of Mr. Mudd, Rebecca Cammisa
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

    * "Coraline" (Focus Features), Henry Selick
    * "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox), Wes Anderson
    * "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney), John Musker and Ron Clements
    * "The Secret of Kells" (CCID), Tomm Moore
    * "Up" (Walt Disney), Pete Docter
Achievements in line

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), James Cameron
    * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), Kathryn Bigelow
    * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), Quentin Tarantino
    * "Precious: Based on the novel Push" Sapphire "(Lionsgate), Lee Daniels,
    * "Up in the Air" (Paramount, in conjunction with Cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW), Jason Reitman
Performance by an Actor in a leading role

    * Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
    * George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount, under cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW)
    * Colin Firth in "one man" (The Weinstein Company)
    * Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
    * Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)
Performance by an Actress in a leading role

    * Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.)
    * Helen Mirren in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
    * Carey Mulligan in "an" education (Sony Pictures Classics)
    * Gabourey Sidibe in 'Precious: Based on the novel Push "Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
    * Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Interpretation of an Actor

    * Matt Damon in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)
    * Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
    * Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics)
    * Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks, in connection with Film4, distributed by Paramount)
    * Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)
Performance of an Actress

    * Penelope Cruz in "Nine" (The Weinstein Company)
    * Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air" (Paramount, under cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW)
    * Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight)
    * Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount, under cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW)
    * Mo'Nique in 'Precious: Based on the novel Push "Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
Adapted Screenplay

    * "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
    * "A" Education (Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by Nick Hornby
    * "In the Loop" (IFC Films), directed by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
    * "Precious: Based on the novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate), Written by Geoffrey Fletcher
    * "Up in the Air" (Paramount, in conjunction with Cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW) from a screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Original Screenplay

    * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), written by Mark Boal
    * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), written by Quentin Tarantino
    * "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories), written by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
    * "A Serious Man" (Focus Features) by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for writing
    * "Up" (Walt Disney), directed by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, the story of Pete Docter, Bob Peterson Tom McCarthy,
Achievement in cinematography

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Mauro Fiore
    * "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.), Bruno Delbonnel
    * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), Barry Ackroyd
    * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), Robert Richardson
    * "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics), Christian Berger,
Success in film editing

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Stephen Rivkin Refoua John and James Cameron
    * "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing), Julian Clarke,
    * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
    * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), Sally Menke
    * "Precious: Based on the novel Push" Sapphire "(Lionsgate), Joe Klotz
Achievement in music for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), James Horner
    * "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox), Alexandre Desplat
    * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
    * "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.), Hans Zimmer
    * "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
Achievement in music for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

    * "Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney), music and lyrics by Randy Newman
    * "Down In New Orleans" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney), music and lyrics by Randy Newman
    * "Loin de Paname" of "Paris 36" (Sony Pictures Classics), music by Reinhardt Wagner, lyrics by Frank Thomas
    * "All" to "make nine" (The Weinstein Company), music and lyrics by Maury Yeston
    * "The tired child (Theme from Crazy Heart)" "Crazy Heart," (Fox Searchlight) Music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett
Achievement in Art Direction

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter, and Robert Stromberg, Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
    * "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics), Art Director: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masar, Set Decoration: Caroline Smith
    * "Nine" (The Weinstein Company), Art Direction: John Myhre, Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
    * "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
    * "The Young Victoria" (respect), Art Director: Patrice Vermette, Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Achievement in costume

    * "Bright Star" (aspect), Janet Patterson
    * "Before Coco Chanel" (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier
    * "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics), Monique Prudhomme
    * "Nine" (The Weinstein Company), Colleen Atwood
    * "The Young Victoria" (aspect), Sandy Powell
Achievement in Makeup

    * "Il Divo" (MPI Media Group for Music Box), Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
    * "Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment), Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow
    * "The Young Victoria" (aspect), Jon Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Achievement in Sound Editing

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
    * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), Paul NJ Ottosson
    * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), Wylie Statesman
    * "Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment), Mark and Alan Rankin Stoeckinger
    * "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Achievement in Sound Mixing

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson,
    * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), Paul NJ Ottosson and Ray Beckett
    * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), Michael Minkler, Tony Lambert and Mark Ulano
    * "Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment), Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin,
    * "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, distributed by Paramount), Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Achievement in Visual Effects

    * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard and Andrew R. Baneham Jones,
    * "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing), Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzer, Robert Habre and Matt Aitken
    * "Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment), Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Best Animation Short Film

    * "French Roast", a squash plant / Bibo Films Production, Fabrice O. Joubert
    * "Grandma O'grimm" Sleeping Beauty "(Brown Bag Films), A Brown Bag Films Production, Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
    * "The Lady and the Reaper (The Lady and Death), A Kandor Graphics and Production of Green Moon, Grace Javier Recio
    * "Logorama" (Autour de Minuit), Autour de Minuit production, Nicolas Schmerkin
    * "A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Aardman Animations), a production of Aardman Animations, Nick Park
Best Live-Action Short Film

    * "The Door" (Television Network Ireland), Octagon Films production, James Flynn and Juanita Wilson
    * "Instead of Abracadabra" (The Swedish Film Institute), A & Direct production Fabrik, Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström
    * "Kavi", Gregg Helvey Gregg A Helvey production
    * "Fish Miracle" (Premium Films) A Druid Film Production, Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey
    * "The new tenant, a park Pictures, and M & M Production, Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Best Documentary Short

    "* China unnatural disasters: Tears of the province of Sichuan," A center of Central Community Television Production, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill,
    * "The last campaign of Gov. Booth Gardner, a Just-Media, Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher
    * "The last truck: implementation of a GM plant, a joint production of media, Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert
    * "Music of prudence," a production iThemba Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett
    * "Rabbit to Berlin" (Deckert distribution), an MS Films production, Bartek Konopka, Anna Wydra

Oscar 2010 Nominations

Here we go again for the Oscar 2010 Nominations, better known as the Oscars, which is published annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors and writers.
The Oscar Awards Night 2010 is coming and even now many people are now looking for the list of Oscar nominees, 2010th
The 82nd Academy Awards Night, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences takes place on 7 meeting in March 2010 at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, and is moderated by Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.
From now on the official announcement of the list of Oscar nominees 2010 will be on February 2nd will be held from 2010 to clock 5:30 Pacific Time and 8:30 Eastern time clock. The list of Oscar nominations in 2010 and Oscar 2010 nominees will be announced at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, Bytom Sherak, president of the Academy Awards and Anne Hathaway.
Update: Here is the complete list of Oscar nominations 2010th Who of these Oscar nominations 2010 are to win their bets, the 2010 Oscar Award?
Best actor in a leading role Oscar nominations 2010 * Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) * George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount, under cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW) * Colin Firth in "one man" (The Weinstein Company) * Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) * Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment)
Best Supporting Actor nominees 2010 * Matt Damon in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) * Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) * Christopher Plummer in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics) * Stanley Tucci in "The Lovely Bones" (DreamWorks, in connection with Film4, distributed by Paramount) * Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company)
Best actress in a leading role Oscar nominations 2010 * Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.) * Helen Mirren in "The Last Station" (Sony Pictures Classics) * Carey Mulligan in "an" education (Sony Pictures Classics) * Gabourey Sidibe in 'Precious: Based on the novel Push "Sapphire" (Lionsgate) * Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees 2010 * Penelope Cruz in "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) * Vera Farmiga in "Up in the Air" (Paramount, under cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW) * Maggie Gyllenhaal in "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) * Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount, under cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW) * Mo'Nique in 'Precious: Based on the novel Push "Sapphire" (Lionsgate)
Best Animated Feature Film of 2010 Oscar nominations: * "Coraline" (Focus Features), Henry Selick * "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox), Wes Anderson * "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) John Musker and Ron Clements * "The Secret of Kells" (CCID), Tomm Moore * "Up" (Walt Disney) Pete Docter
Best Art Direction Oscar in 2010 candidates: * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) Art Direction: Rick Carter, and Robert Stromberg Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair * "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Art Director: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masar Set Decoration: Caroline Smith * "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Art Direction: John Myhre Set Decoration: Gordon Sim * "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood Set Decoration: Katie Spencer * "The Young Victoria" (aspect) Art Direction: Patrice Vermette Set Decoration: Maggie Gray
Best Cinematography at the Oscars 2010 candidates: * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Mauro Fiore * "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (Warner Bros.), Bruno Delbonnel * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Barry Ackroyd * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), Robert Richardson * "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) Christian Berger
Best in Costume Oscar Nominees 2010: * "Bright Star" (aspect) Janet Patterson * "Before Coco Chanel" (Sony Pictures Classics) Catherine Leterrier * "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" (Sony Pictures Classics) Monique Prudhomme * "Nine" (The Weinstein Company) Colleen Atwood * "The Young Victoria" (aspect) Sandy Powell
Best Director Oscar Nominees 2010: * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), James Cameron * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment), Kathryn Bigelow * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Quentin Tarantino * "Precious: Based on the novel Push" Sapphire "(Lionsgate) Lee Daniels * "Up in the Air" (Paramount, in conjunction with Cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW), Jason Reitman
Best Documentary Feature Oscar Nominees 2010: * "Burma VJ" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) A Magic Hour Films Production and Anders Østergaard Lise Lense-Møller * "The Cove" (Roadside Attractions) An Ocean Conservation Society Production nominees will be determined * "Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures) by Robert Kenner Films production Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein * "The most dangerous man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Kovno Communications, a production of Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith * "Which Way Home" A Production Mudd Rebecca Cammisa
Best Documentary Short Oscar nominees 2010: "* China unnatural disasters: Tears of the province of Sichuan" A Downtown Community Television Production Center, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill, * "The last campaign of Gov. Booth Gardner" Media Production Fair Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher * "The last truck: implementation of a GM plant" A Community Media Production Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert * "Music for prudence" A Production iThemba Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett * "Rabbit to Berlin" (Deckert Distribution), an MS-Films Production Bartek Konopka, Anna Wydra
Best Film Editing 2010 Academy Awards Nominees: * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron * "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Julian Clarke * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Bob Murawski, Chris Innis * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), Sally Menke * "Precious: Based on the novel Push" Sapphire "(Lionsgate), Joe Klotz
2010 Best Foreign Film Oscar nominations: * "Ajami" (Kino International) A Production Israel Inos * "The Secret of Their Eyes" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haddock Films Production Argentina * "The Empty Nest" A Wanda Vision / Oberon Film / production Vela Peru * "A Prophet" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Why can not / Page 114/Chic Films Production France * "The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) The X-Filme Creative Pool / Wega Film / Les Films du Losange / Lucky Red production in Germany
Best Makeup Oscar nominee in 2010: * "Il Divo" (MPI Media Group for Music Box) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano * "Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment) Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow * "The Young Victoria" (aspect) Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore
Best music written for the film Oscar Nominees 2010 (Original Score) * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) James Horner * "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox), Alexandre Desplat * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders * "Sherlock Holmes" (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer * "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Giacchino
Best music written for the film Oscar Nominees 2010 (Original Song) * "Almost There" from "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman * "Down In New Orleans," "The Princess and the Frog" (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman * "Loin de Paname" of "Paris 36" (Sony Pictures Classics) Music by Reinhardt Wagner. Lyrics by Frank Thomas * "All" to "make nine" (The Weinstein Company) Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston * "The tired child (the subject of Crazy Heart)" "Crazy Heart" (Fox Searchlight) Music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett
2010 Best Picture Oscar nominations: * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox) A Lightstorm Entertainment production of James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers * "The Blind Side" (Warner Bros.) A Alcon Entertainment Production Nominees to be determined * "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Block A / Hanson production Carolynne Cunningham and Peter Jackson, Producers * "A" Education (Sony Pictures Classics) A Films Production Finola Dwyer Wildgaze Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, the manufacturer * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) A voltage Pictures Production Nominees to be determined * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) A Weinstein / Company Universal Pictures / A Band Apart / Babelsberg production Tenth Lawrence Bender, producer of * "Precious: Based on the novel Push" Sapphire "(Lionsgate) A Lee Daniels Entertainment / Entertainment Production Smokewood Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel Magness and Gary Magness, producers * "A Serious Man" (Focus Features) A Working Title Production Films Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers * "Up" (Walt Disney) Produced by Pixar Jonas Rivera, Producer * "Up in the Air" (Paramount, under cold Spring Pictures Studios and DW) A Montecito Picture Company production of Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, the producer
Best animated short film Oscar nominees 2010: * "French roast" A factory pumpkin / Fabrice Bibo Films Production O. Joubert * "Grandma O'grimm" Sleeping Beauty "(Brown Bag Films) A Brown Bag Films Production Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell * "The Lady and the Reaper (The Lady and Death)" A Kandor Graphics and Production Green Moon Recio Javier Gracia * "Logorama" (Autour de Minuit) A production Autour de Minuit Nicolas Schmerkin * "A Matter of Loaf and Death" (Aardman Animations) Produced by Nick Park Aardman Animations
Best Live-Action Short Film Oscar Nominees 2010: * "The Gate" (Irish Television Network), The Octagon Films Production James Flynn and Juanita Wilson * "Instead of Abracadabra" (The Swedish Film Institute) A Live & Fabrika production and Mathias Fjellström Patrik Eklund * "Kavi", a production Gregg Helvey Gregg Helvey * "Fish Miracle" (Premium Films) A Druid Films Production Doolan Luke and Drew Bailey * "The New Tenant" A Park Pictures and M & M Production Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson
Best Sound Editing Oscar Nominees 2010: * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Paul NJ Ottosson * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Wylie Statesman * "Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment) Mark and Alan Rankin Stoeckinger * "Up" (Walt Disney) Michael Silvers and Tom Myers
Best Sound Mixing Oscar nominees 2010: * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson, * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Paul NJ Ottosson and Ray Beckett * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company), Michael Minkler, Tony Lambert and Mark Ulano * "Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment) Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin * "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" (DreamWorks and Paramount in association with Hasbro, distributed by Paramount), Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Best Visual Effects Oscar nominations in 2010: * "Avatar" (20th Century Fox), Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard and Andrew R. Baneham Jones, * "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzer, Robert Habre and Matt Aitken * "Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment), Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton
Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award nominees in 2010: * "District 9" (Sony Pictures Releasing) Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell * "A" Education (Sony Pictures Classics) Screenplay by Nick Hornby * "In the Loop" (IFC Films) Written by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche * "Precious: Based on the novel Push" Sapphire "(Lionsgate) Written by Geoffrey Fletcher * "Up in the Air" (Paramount, in collaboration with Cold Spring Pictures, and DW Studios) by Jason Reitman and screenwriter Sheldon Turner,
Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 2010 Nominees: * "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Entertainment) Writer: Mark Boal * "Inglourious Basterds" (The Weinstein Company) Posted by: Quentin Tarantino * "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Laboratories) Written by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman * "A Serious Man" (Focus Features) Written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen * "Up" (Walt Disney), Screenplay: Bob Peterson, Pete Docter Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy
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