And the winner is.....

And the winner is…….(yes I know, a very cliché blog title)

So one site that I found had some decent discussion under it for all the nominees was a New York times blog at http://carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/oscar-nominations/. Another was http://oscar-watch.ew.com/. Which gets really annoying with all the pop ups, which with me using a MAC is really impressive in a bad way. I did read through this one (even with the damn pop ups) because this blogger offered his predictions on a few of the categories, not all but about ¼. And lastly for this day I looked at http://communities.canada.com/shareit/blogs/stonereport/archive/2010/01/29/my-oscar-nomination-predictions-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-james-camereon.aspx. Only commented on the first few catagories but at least gave some reasoning why he picked what he did.

I’ll be honest I have not seen a lot of these movies, so a lot of my reasoning for what I have picked initially is from what I have read online.

Best Picture 
“The Hurt Locker”
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Best Direction 
“Avatar” — James Cameron

Actor in a Leading Role 
Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”


Actress in a Leading Role 
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Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”

Actor in a Supporting Role 
 Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”


Actress in a Supporting Role Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”



Writing (Adapted Screenplay 
“Up in the Air” — Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Writing (Original Screenplay)
“The Hurt Locker” — Written by Mark Boal

Animated Feature Film 
“Coraline

Art Direction
 “Avatar” — Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg;

Cinematography 
“Avatar” — Mauro Fiore

Costume 
“The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” — Monique Prudhomme

Documentary (Feature)
“Burma VJ”
“The Cove”

Documentary (Short Subject)
“China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province

Film Editing
“Avatar” — Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron

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

Makeup 
“Star Trek” — Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

Music (Original Score)
“Avatar” — James Horner

Music (Original Song)
 
“The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

Short Film (Animated 
“The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia
“Logorama”

Short Film (Live Action)
 
“Instead of Abracadabra” — Patrik Eklund and Mathias

Sound Editing
 Either “Avatar” — Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle or 
“Star Trek” — Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin

Sound Mixing Again either 
“Avatar” — Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson or 
“Star Trek” — Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin or even 
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” — Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

Visual Effects
 And once more either “Avatar” — Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones or Star Trek” — Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton