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BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR

• Avatar
• The Blind Side
• District 9
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious
• A Serious Man
• Up
• Up in the Air

BEST DIRECTOR

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

BEST ACTRESS

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

BEST ACTOR

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

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Penelope Cruz, Nine
• Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
• Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
• Mo?Nique, Precious

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Matt Damon, Invictus
• Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
• Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
• Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
• Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Basterds

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 (Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)
• An Education (Nick Hornby)
• In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, 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
• Fantastic Mr. Fox
• The Princess and the Frog
• The Secret of Kells
• Up

• Best Foreign Language Film
  El Secreto do Sus Ojos (Argentina)
  Un Prophete (France)
  The White Ribbon (Germany)
  Ajami (Israel)
  The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)

  Best Art Direction
  Avatar
  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  Nine
  Sherlock Holmes
  The Young Victoria

  Best Cinematography
  Avatar
  Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  The Hurt Locker
  Inglourious Basterds
  The White Ribbon

  Best Costume Design
  Bright Star
  Coco Before Chanel
  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
  Nine
  The Young Victoria

  Best Documentary
  Burma VJ
  The Cove
  Food, Inc.
  The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
  Which Way Home

  Best Editing
  Avatar
  District 9
  The Hurt Locker
  Inglourious Basterds
  Precious

  Best Makeup
  Il Divo
  Star Trek
  The Young Victoria

  Best Score
  Avatar
  Fantastic Mr. Fox
  The Hurt Locker
  Sherlock Holmes
  Up

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

  Best Sound Editing
  Avatar
  The Hurt Locker
  Inglourious Basterds
  Star Trek
  Up

  Best Sound Mixing
  Avatar
  The Hurt Locker
  Inglourious Basterds
  Star Trek
  Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

  Best Visual Effects
  Avatar
  District 9
  Star Trek

  Best Documentary Short
  China?s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
  The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
  The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
  Music by Prudence
  Rabbit à la Berlin

  Best Animated Short
  French Roast
  Granny O?Grimm?s Sleeping Beauty
  The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
  Logorama
  A Matter of Loaf and Death

  Best Live-Action Short
  The Door
  Instead of Abracadabra
  Kavi
  Miracle Fish
  The New Tenants