❤ loved ; ♕ should win ; ♛ won

Actress in a supporting role

• Mo'Nique in Precious
• Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air
• Penélope Cruz in Nine
• Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air
• Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart

Actor in a supporting role

• Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds❤
• Christopher Plummer in The Last Station
• Matt Damon in Invictus ❤
• Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones
• Woody Harrelson in The Messenger

Actress in a leading role

• Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia ❤
• Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side ❤
• Helen Mirren in The Last Station
• Gabourey Sidibe in Precious
• Carey Mulligan in An Education

Actor in a leading role

• Morgan Freeman in Invictus
• Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
• George Clooney in Up in the Air
• Colin Firth in A Single Man
• Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

Animated feature film

• Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)❤
• The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements and John Musker)❤
• Coraline (Henry Selick)❤
• Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson) $/❤
• The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore)

Foreign language film

• Ajami (Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, Israel)
• A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, France)
• The Secret of Her Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina)
• The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany)
• The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Peru)

Directing

• Avatar (James Cameron)
• The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow)
• Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)❤
• Up in the Air (Jason Reitman)
• Precious (Lee Daniels)

Writing (adapted screenplay)

• District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)
• An Education (Nick Hornby)
• Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
• Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
• In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche)

Writing (original screenplay)

• The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
• Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
• A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
• Up (Pete Docter and Bob Petersen)❤
• The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman)

Best picture

• Avatar (James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers)
• District 9 (Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, producers)
• An Education (Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, producers)
• The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, producers)
• Inglourious Basterds (Lawrence Bender, producer)
• Precious (Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, producers)
• A Serious Man (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, producers)
• Up in the Air (Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, producers)
• The Blind Side (Gil Netter, Andrew A Kosove and Broderick Johnson, producers)
• Up (Jonas Rivera, producer)

Art direction

• Avatar (art direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; set decoration: Kim Sinclair)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (art direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; set decoration: Caroline Smith)
• Nine (art direction: John Myhre; set decoration: Gordon Sim)
• Sherlock Holmes (art direction: Sarah Greenwood; set decoration: Katie Spencer)
• The Young Victoria (art direction: Patrice Vermette; set decoration: Maggie Gray)

Cinematography

• Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bruno Delbonnel)
• The Hurt Locker (Barry Ackroyd)
• Inglourious Basterds (Robert Richardson)
• The White Ribbon (Christian Berger)

Costume design

• Bright Star (Janet Patterson)
• Coco Before Chanel (Catherine Leterrier) ❤
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme)
• Nine (Colleen Atwood)
• The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)

Documentary (feature)

• Burma VJ (Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller)
• The Cove (Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens)
• Food, Inc (Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein)
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon
• Papers (Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith)
• Which Way Home (Rebecca Cammisa)

Documentary (short subject)

• China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill)
• The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher)
• The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant (Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert)
• Music by Prudence (Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett)
• Rabbit à la Berlin (Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra)

Film editing

• Avatar (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron)
• District 9 (Julian Clarke)
• The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis)
• Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
• Precious (Joe Klotz)

Makeup

• Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano)
• The Young Victoria (Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore)
• Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow)

Music (original score)

• Avatar (James Horner)
• Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
• Up (Michael Giacchino)❤
• The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
• Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)

Music (original song)

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

Short film (animated)

• French Roast (Fabrice O Joubert)
• Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell)
• Logoramam (Nicolas Schmerkin)
• The Lady and the Reaper (Javier Recio Gracia)
• A Matter of Loaf and Death (Nick Park)

Short film (live action)

• The Door (Juanita Wilson and James Flynn)
• Instead of Abracadabra (Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström)
• Kavi (Gregg Helvey)
• Miracle Fish (Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey)
• The New Tenants (Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson)

Sound editing

• Avatar (Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
• The Hurt Locker (Paul NJ Ottosson)
• Inglourious Basterds (Wylie Stateman)
• Star Trek (Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin)
• Up (Michael Silvers and Tom Myers)

Sound mixing

• Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson)
• The Hurt Locker (Paul NJ Ottosson and Ray Beckett)
• Inglourious Basterds (Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano)
• Star Trek (Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J Devlin)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Greg P Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson)

Visual effects

• Avatar (Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R Jones)
• District 9 (Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken)
• Star Trek (Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton)