2010 Academy Awards

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Best Picture

• Avatar
• The Blind Side
• District 9
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• A Serious Man
• Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Up
• Up in the Air

Best Director

• Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
• James Cameron – Avatar
• Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
• Jason Reitman – Up in the Air
• Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor

• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Bad Blake
• George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham
• Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer
• Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela
• Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sgt. William James

Best Actress

• Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy
• Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy
• Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Clarieece "Precious" Jones
• Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child

Best Supporting Actor

• Matt Damon – Invictus as François Pienaar
• Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Capt. Tony Stone
• Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy
• Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey
• Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa

Best Supporting Actress

• Penélope Cruz – Nine as Carla Albanese
• Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran
• Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock
• Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener
• Mo'Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Mary Lee Johnston

Best Original Screenplay

• The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal
• Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
• The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
• A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Up – Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter

Best Adapted Screenplay

• District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
• An Education – Nick Hornby
• In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche
• Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher
• Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Animated Film

• Coraline – Henry Selick
• Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson
• The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements and John Musker
• The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey
• Up – Pete Docter

Best Foreign Language Film

• Ajami (Israel) in Arabic and Hebrew – Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani
• El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella
• The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) in Spanish – Claudia Llosa
• A Prophet (France) in French – Jacques Audiard
• The White Ribbon (Germany) in German – Michael Haneke