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BEST PICTURE Foreign Language Film Documentary Feature Avatar Ajami Burma VJ Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller The Blind Side Israel | Directed by Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani The Cove Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens District 9 The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) Food, Inc. Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein Peru | Directed by Claudia Llosa An Education The Most Dangerous Man in America: A Prophet (Un Prophète) The Hurt Locker Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers France | Directed by Jacques Audiard Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith Inglourious Basterds The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) Which Way Home Rebecca Cammisa Precious Argentina | Directed by Juan José Campanella A Serious Man The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) Documentary Short Subject Up Germany | Directed by Michael Haneke China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Up in the Air Sichuan Province Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill Original Score The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner Director Avatar James Horner Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher James Cameron Avatar Fantastic Mr. Fox Alexandre Desplat The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds Sherlock Holmes Hans Zimmer Music by Prudence Roger Ross Williams and Lee Daniels Precious Up Michael Giacchino Elinor Burkett Jason Reitman Up in the Air Rabbit à la Berlin Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra Original Song Actor in a Leading Role The Princess and the Frog “Almost There” Animated Short Film Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart Music and Lyric by Randy Newman French Roast Fabrice O. Joubert George Clooney Up in the Air The Princess and the Frog “Down in New Orleans” Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty Music and Lyric by Randy Newman Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell Colin Firth A Single Man Paris 36 “Loin de Paname” The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte) Morgan Freeman Invictus Music by Reinhardt Wagner, Lyric by Frank Thomas Javier Recio Gracia Jeremy Renner The Hurt Locker Nine “Take It All” Logorama Nicolas Schmerkin Actress in a Leading Role Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston A Matter of Loaf and Death Nick Park Crazy Heart “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Sandra Bullock The Blind Side Heart)” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and Live Action Short Film Helen Mirren The Last Station T Bone Burnett The Door Juanita Wilson and James Flynn Carey Mulligan An Education Art Direction Instead of Abracadabra Patrik Eklund and Gabourey Sidibe Precious Mathias Fjellström Avatar Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg Meryl Streep Julie & Julia Kavi Gregg Helvey (Art Direction); Kim Sinclair (Set Decoration) Miracle Fish Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey Actor in a Supporting Role The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus The New Tenants Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson Matt Damon Invictus Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro (Art Direction); Caroline Smith (Set Decoration) Woody Harrelson The Messenger Sound Editing Nine John Myhre (Art Direction); Christopher Plummer The Last Station Gordon Sim (Set Decoration) Avatar Christopher Boyes and Stanley Tucci The Lovely Bones Gwendolyn Yates Whittle Sherlock Holmes Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction); Christoph Waltz Inglourious Basterds Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) The Hurt Locker Paul N.J. Ottosson Inglourious Basterds Wylie Stateman Actress in a Supporting Role The Young Victoria Patrice Vermette (Art Direction); Maggie Gray (Set Decoration) Star Trek Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin Penélope Cruz Nine Up Michael Silvers and Tom Myers Vera Farmiga Up in the Air Cinematography Maggie Gyllenhaal Crazy Heart Avatar Mauro Fiore Sound Mixing Anna Kendrick Up in the Air Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Avatar Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Mo’Nique Precious Bruno Delbonnel Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson The Hurt Locker Barry Ackroyd The Hurt Locker Paul N.J. Ottosson and Original Screenplay Inglourious Basterds Robert Richardson Ray Beckett Written by Mark Boal The Hurt Locker The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) Inglourious Basterds Michael Minkler, Inglourious Basterds Written by Quentin Tarantino Christian Berger Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano The Messenger Written by Alessandro Camon & Star Trek Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Oren Moverman Costume Design Peter J. Devlin A Serious Man Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Bright Star Janet Patterson Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Up Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter. Coco Before Chanel Catherine Leterrier Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Monique Prudhomme Adapted Screenplay Visual Effects Nine Colleen Atwood District 9 Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell Avatar Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, The Young Victoria Sandy Powell Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones An Education Screenplay by Nick Hornby District 9 Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, In the Loop Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Makeup Robert Habros and Matt Aitken Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche Il Divo Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano Star Trek Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Precious Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher Star Trek Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton Up in the Air Screenplay by Jason Reitman and The Young Victoria Jon Henry Gordon and Sheldon Turner Jenny Shircore tie-breaker questions Animated Feature Film Film Editing How many audience reaction shots will there Coraline Henry Selick Avatar Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and be of Sandra Bullock? (Including during the reading of her category) Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson James Cameron Julian Clarke The Princess and the Frog John Musker and District 9 TIE-BREAKER TIE-BREAKER Ron Clements Bob Murawski and Chris Innis The Hurt Locker How many Avatar jokes will be told? The Secret of Kells Tomm Moore Inglourious Basterds Sally Menke Up Pete Docter Precious Joe Klotz Official tiebreaker tallies will be posted on Vulture immediately following the broadcast.