Below are the nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards as announced this morning by Academy president Tom Sherak and Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway. The winners will be announced on Sunday, March 7, 2010. The poster at the right is the official poster of the 82nd Academy Awards as announced yesterday.

Nominations Tallies

(9) Avatar; The Hurt Locker
(8) Inglourious Basterds
(6) Precious; Up in the Air
(5) Up
(4) District 9; Nine; Star Trek
(3) Crazy Heart; An Education; The Princess and the Frog; The Young Victoria

The Nominations

Best Picture

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

Best Animated Feature

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Best Director

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

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 Actress

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

Best Supporting Actor

Matt Damon – Invictus
Woody Harrelson – The Messenger
Christopher Plummer – The Last Station
Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds

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 Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up

Best Adapted Screenplay

District 9
An Education
In the Loop
Precious
Up in the Air

Best Original Score

Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
Up

Best Original Song

“Almost There” – The Princess and the Frog
“Down in New Orleans” – The Princess and the Frog
“Loin de Paname” – Paris 36
“Take It All” – Nine
“The Weary Kind” – Crazy Heart

Best Editing

Avatar
District 9
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

Best Cinematography

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

Best Art Direction

Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Best Costume Design

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

Best Makeup

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Best Sound Mixing

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

Best Sound Editing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Best Visual Effects

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

Best Foreign Language Film

Ajami – Israel
The Milk of Sorrow – Peru
Un Prophete – France
El Secreto de Sus Ojos – Argentina
The White Ribbon – Germany

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Documentary Short Subject

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 a la Berlin

Best Animated Short Film

French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Live-Action Short Film

The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

Predictions Comparison

Overall Predictions

As a Group, our predictors picked 95 of the final nominees, missing 20, for a 82.6% success rate.

Individual Predictions

Wesley Lovell – 80 (only person to predict Penelope Cruz in Supporting Actress; Fantastic Mr. Fox in Original Score; Coco Before Chanel in Costume Design; The Hurt Locker in Sound Editing)
Wes Huizar – 80 (only person to predict The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus in Art Direction)
Tripp Burton – 79 (only person to predict “Down in New Orleans” in Original Song; The Most Dangerous Man in America in Documentary Feature; French Roast in Animated Short)
Peter J. Patrick – 78

Perfect Categories

The Group: Best Actor; Best Visual Effects
Individual: Best Actress (Wesley, Tripp)

Unanimous Predictions That Didn’t Get Nominated

Best Director: Neill Blomkamp – District 9
Best Original Screenplay: (500) Days of Summer
Best Original Score: The Informant!; A Single Man
Best Original Song: “All Is Love” – Where the Wild Things Are
Best Editing: Up in the Air
Best Art Direction: Inglourious Basterds
Best Makeup: District 9
Best Sound Mixing: District 9; Up
Best Sound Editing: District 9
Best Documentary Short Subject: Tell Them Anything You Want
Best Animated Short Film: Partly Cloudy