The 82nd Academy Awards (2009): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
9 9 8 6 6 5 4 4 4 3 3 3 3	Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious Up in the Air Up District 9 Nine Star Trek Crazy Heart An Education The Princess and the Frog The Young Victoria	6 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	The Hurt Locker Avatar Crazy Heart Precious Up The Blind Side The Cove Inglourious Basterds Logorama Music by Prudence The New Tenants El Secreto de Sus Ojos Star Trek The Young Victoria
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

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

DIRECTING

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

ACTOR (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 (Actress in a Leading Role)

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

SUPPORTING ACTOR (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

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (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

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

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• District 9 - Written by Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
• An Education - Screenplay by Nick Hornby
• In the Loop - Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
• Precious - Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher
• Up in the Air - Screenplay by Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

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, T Bone Burnett

ORIGINAL SCORE

• Avatar - James Horner
• Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat
• The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
• Sherlock Holmes - Hans Zimmer
• Up - Michael Giacchino

FILM EDITING

• Avatar - Steven Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
• District 9 - Julian Clarke
• The Hurt Locker - Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
• Inglourious Basterds - Sally Menke
• Precious - Joe Klotz

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, Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Art Direction: Dave Warren, 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

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, Vittorio Sodano
• Star Trek - Barney Burman, Mindy Hall, Joel Harlow
• The Young Victoria - Jon Henry Gordon, Jenny Shircore

SOUND MIXING

• Avatar - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson
• The Hurt Locker - Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett
• Inglourious Basterds - Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano
• Star Trek - Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Peter J. Devlin
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson

SOUND EDITING

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

VISUAL EFFECTS

• Avatar - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
• District 9 - Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
• Star Trek - Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

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

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

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

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• Burma VJ - Anders Østergaard, Lisa Lense-Møller
• The Cove - Louie Psihoyos, Fisher Stevens
• Food, Inc. - Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers - Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith
• Which Way Home - Rebecca Cammisa

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• China's Unnatural Disaster: The Teras of the Sichuan Province - Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
• The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner - Daniel Junge, Henry Ansbacher
• The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant - Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert
• Music by Prudence - Roger Ross Williams, Elinor Burkett
• Rabbit à la Berlin - Bartek Konopka, Anna Wydra

SHORT FILM (Animated)

• French Roast - Fabrice O. Joubert
• Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty - Nicky Phelan, 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, James Flynn
• Instead of Abracadabra - Patrik Eklund, Mathias Fjellström
• Kavi - Gregg Helvey
• Miracle Fish - Luke Doolan, Drew Bailey
• The New Tenants - Joachim Back, Tivi Magnusson

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Lauren Bacall in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures.
• To Roger Corman for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers.
• To Gordon Willis for unsurpassed mastery of light, shadow, color and motion.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

• John Calley

GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD

• Nominee

JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

• Nominee

AWARD OF COMMENDATION

• Nominee

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To Per Christensen, Michael Bunnell and Christophe Hery 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 Dr. 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 technology, 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 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.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• 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 Bjorn Heden for the design and mechanical engineering of the silent, two-stage planetary friction drive Heden Lens Motors.