It's awards season!
With the Golden Globes, the SAGs and Grammys behind us - it's time to look forward to the big night surrounding a little man named Oscar.
This week the Oscar nominations were announced - with first-time nominees and the newly expanded Best Picture category (now 10 movies are nominated).
Sandra Bullock continues her awards season sweep with a nomination for Best Actress (she's one of the first-timers), along with Precious' breakout star Gabourey Sidibe and An Education's Carey Mulligan. They're against heavy hitters Meryl Streep (nominated a record 16th time - but naturally...it's MERYL) and Helen Mirren.
The Best Actor category sees Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), George Clooney (Up in the Air) and Jeremy Renner (Hurt Locker) against each other.
And in the big Best Picture category there are:
- “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers (you would hope the most expensive movie made would get nominated for SOMETHING)
- “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined (a bit surprising, critics claim it's nominated to reach out to the "minivan demographic")
- “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers
- “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers
- “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined (James Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow directed)
- “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer
- “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers
- “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers
- “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer (only animated movie...unless you count Avatar's blue people)
- “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers
So what do YOU think? Who will be the winners? Any surprises? Let us know!
To see the full list of nominees, visit: OSCAR.COM
