Oscar Nominations 2009

Best Picture
Avatar - James Cameron and Jon Landau
The Blind Side - Gil Netter, Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson
District 9 - Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham
An Education - Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey
* The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro
Inglourious Basterds - Lawrence Bender
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness
A Serious Man - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Up - Jonas Rivera
Up in the Air - Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman

Actor in a Leading Role
* Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
 George Clooney - Up in the Air
 Colin Firth - A Single Man
 Morgan Freeman - Invictus
 Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker

 Actress in a Leading Role
* Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
 Helen Mirren - The Last Station
 Carey Mulligan - An Education
 Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
 Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon - Invictus
 Woody Harrelson - The Messenger
 Christopher Plummer - The Last Station
 Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones
 * Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Actress in a Supporting Role
Penélope Cruz - Nine
 Vera Farmiga - Up in the Air
 Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart
 Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
 * Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

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

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
District 9 - Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education - Screenplay by Nick Hornby
In the Loop - Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
* Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air - Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Writing (Original Screenplay)
* The Hurt Locker - Written by Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds - Written by Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger - Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
A Serious Man - Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Up - Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

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

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

Sound Mixing
Avatar - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
* The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. 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

Music (Original Score)
Avatar - James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
* Up - Michael Giacchino

Music (Original Song)
"Almost There" The Princess and the Frog - Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Down in New Orleans" The Princess and the Frog - Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
"Loin de Paname" Paris 36 - Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas
"Take It All" Nine - Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston
* "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" Crazy Heart - Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

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: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire - Joe Klotz

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

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

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

Sound Editing
Avatar - Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
* The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson
Inglourious Basterds - Wylie Stateman
Star Trek - Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin
Up - Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

Short Film (Animated)
French Roast - Fabrice O. Joubert
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty - Nicky Phelan and Darragh O'Connell
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) - Javier Recio Gracia
* Logorama - Nicolas Schmerkin
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

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

Foreign Language Film
Ajami - Israel
* El Secreto de Sus Ojos - Argentina
The Milk of Sorrow - Peru
Un Prophète - France
The White Ribbon - Germany

Animated Feature Film
Coraline - Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog - John Musker and Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells - Tomm Moore
* Up - Pete Docter

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
John Calley

Honorary Awards
Lauren Bacall
Roger Corman
Gordon Willis.

Technical Achievement Awards
To Mark Wolforth and Tony Sedivy for their contributions to the development of the Truelight real-time 3D look-up table hardware system.
To Dr. Klaus Anderle, Christian Baeker and Frank Billasch for their contributions to the LUTher 3D look-up table hardware device and color management software.
To Steve Sullivan, Kevin Wooley, Brett Allen and Colin Davidson for the development of the Imocap on-set performance capture system.
To Hayden Landis, Ken McGaugh and Hilmar Koch for advancing the technique of ambient occlusion rendering.
To Bj örn Hedén for the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Hedén Lens Motors.

Scientific and Engineering Awards
To Per Christensen and Michael Bunnell for the development of point-based rendering for indirect illumination and ambient occlusion.
To Dr. Richard Kirk for the overall design and development of the Truelight real-time 3D look-up table hardware device and color management software.
To Volker Massmann, Markus Hasenzahl, Dr. Klaus Anderle and Andreas Loew for the development of the Spirit 4K/2K film scanning system as used in the digital intermediate process for motion pictures.
To Michael Cieslinski, Dr. Reimar Lenz and Bernd Brauner for the development of the ARRISCAN film scanner, enabling high-resolution, high-dynamic range, pin-registered film scanning for use in the digital intermediate process.
To Wolfgang Lempp, Theo Brown, Tony Sedivy and Dr. John Quartel for the development of the Northlight film scanner, which enables high-resolution, pin-registered scanning in the motion picture digital intermediate process.
To Steve Chapman, Martin Tlaskal, Darrin Smart and James Logie for their contributions to the development of the Baselight color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.
To Mark Jaszberenyi, Gyula Priskin and Tamas Perlaki for their contributions to the development of the Lustre color correction system, which enables real-time digital manipulation of motion picture imagery during the digital intermediate process.
To Brad Walker, D. Scott Dewald, Bill Werner and Greg Pettitt for their contributions furthering the design and refinement of the Texas Instruments DLP Projector, achieving a level of performance that enabled color-accurate digital intermediate previews of motion pictures.
To FUJIFILM Corporation, Ryoji Nishimura, Masaaki Miki and Youichi Hosoya for the design and development of Fujicolor ETERNA-RDI digital intermediate film, which was designed exclusively to reproduce motion picture digital masters.
To Paul Debevec, Tim Hawkins, John Monos and Dr. Mark Sagar for the design and engineering of the Light Stage capture devices and the image-based facial rendering system developed for character relighting in motion pictures.