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This morning the nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were announced. Anna Hathaway, an Oscar-nominee for her work last year in Rachel Getting Married, and Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak revealed which films, filmmakers and talent were in the running for Hollywood's most prestigious recognition of movie excellence.

The complete list of Oscar nominees are:

Best Picture:

• A Serious Man (Focus Features, directors Joel Cohen, Ethan Cohen)
• Avatar (20th Century Fox, director James Cameron)
• The Blind Side (Warner Bros., director Jon Lee Hancock)
• District 9 (Columbia Pictures, director Neill Blomkamp)
• An Education (Sony Pictures Classics, director Lone Scherfig)
• The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment, director Kathryn Bigelow)
• Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company, director Quentin Tarantino)
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate, director Lee Daniels)
• Up (Walt Disney Pictures, director Pete Docter)
• Up in the Air (Paramount Pictures, director Jason Reitman)

Best Director:

• James Cameron for Avatar
• Jason Reitman for Up in the Air
  
• Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker
  
• Lee Daniels for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
  
• Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds
  

Best Actor in a Leading Role:

• Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart
  
• George Clooney for Up in the Air
  
• Colin Firth for A Single Man
  
• Morgan Freeman for Invictus
• Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker
  

Best Actress in a Leading Role:

• Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side
• Helen Mirren for The Last Station
  
• Carey Mulligan for An Education
  
• Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
• Meryl Street for Julie & Julia
  

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:

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

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:

• Penelope Cruz for Nine
• Vera Farminga for Up in the Air
  
• Maggie Gyllenhaal for Crazy Heart
  
• Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air
• Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Original Screenplay:

• The Hurt Locker written by Mark Boal (Summit Entertainment)
• Inglourius Basterds written by Quentin Tarantino (The Weinstein Company)
• The Messenger written by Alessandra Camon and Oren Moverman (Oscilloscope Pictures)
• A Serious Man written by Joel Cohen, Ethan Cohen (Focus Features)
• Up written by Bob Petersen, Pete Docter; original story by Pete Docter, Bob Petersen, Tom McCarthy (Walt Disney Pictures)

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• District 9, written by Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
• An Education, written by Nick Hornby (Sony Pictures Classics)
• In the Loop, written by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (IFC Films)
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, written by Geoffrey Fletcher (Lionsgate)
• Up in the Air, written by Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner (Paramount Pictures)

Best Animated Film:

• Coraline (Focus Features)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (20th Century Fox)
• The Princess and the Frog (Walt Disney Pictures)
• The Secret of the Kells (GDKIDS)
• Up (Walt Disney Pictures)

Best Documentary Film

• Burma VJ (Oscilloscope Productions)
• The Cove (Roadside Attractions)
• Food, Inc. (Magnolia Pictures)
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (First Run Features)
• Which Way Home (Mr. Mudd Productions)

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Ajami (Kino International, Israel)
• El Secreto de sus Ojos (Sony Pictures Classics, Argentina)
• The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
• Une Prophete (Sony Pictures classics, France)
• The White Ribbon (Sony Pictures Classics, Germany)

Best Cinematography:

• Avatar, Mauro Fiore (20th Century Fox)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bruno Delbonnel (Warner Bros.)
• The Hurt Locker, Barry Ackroyd (Summit Entertainment)
• Inglourious Basterds, Robert Richardson (The Weinstein Company)
• The White Ribbon, Christian Berger (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Art Direction:

• Avatar, Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg (20th Century Fox)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Dave Warren, Anastasia Masaro (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Nine, John Myhre (The Weinstein Company)
• Sherlock Holmes, Sarah Greenwood (Warner Bros.)
• The Young Victoria, Patrice Vermette (Apparition)

Best Costume Design:

• Bright Star (Apparition)
• Coco Before Chanel, (Sony Pictures Classics)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Nine, (The Weinstein Company)
• The Young Victoria, (Apparition)

Best Film Editing:

• Avatar
• District 9
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire

Best Makeup:

• Il Divo,(MPI Media Group)
• Star Trek, (Paramount Pictures)
• The Young Victoria, (Apparition)

Best Original Score:

• Avatar, James Horner (20th Century Fox)
• Fantastic Mr. Fox, Alexandre Desplat (Fox Searchlight)
• The Hurt Locker, Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders (Summit Entertainment)
• Sherlock Holmes, Hans Zimmer (Warner Bros.)
• Up, Michale Giacchino (Walt Disney Pictures)

Best Original Song:

• "Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog, music and lyrics by Randy Newman (Walt Disney Pictures)
• "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog, music and lyrics by Randy Newman (Walt Disney Pictures)
• "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36, music by Reinhardt Wagner, lyrics by Frank Thomas (Sony Pictures Classics)
• "Take it All" from Nine, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston (The Weinstein Company)
• "The Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart, music and lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T'Bone Burnett (Fox Searchlight)

Best Sound Mixing:

• Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson (20th Century Fox)
• The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Ray Beckett (Summit Entertainment)
• Inglourious Basterds, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Mark Ulano (The Weinstein Company)
• Star Trek, Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson, Peter J. Devlin (Paramount Pictures)
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Geoffrey Patterson (Paramount Pictures)

Best Sound Editing:

• Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (20th Century Fox)
• The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson (Summit Entertainment)
• Inglourious Basterds, Wylie Stateman (The Weinstein Company)
• Star Trek, Mark Stoeckinger, Alan Rankin (Paramount Pictures)
• Up, Michael Silvers, Tom Myers (Walt Disney Pictures)

Best Visual Effects:

• Avatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones (20th Century Fox)
• District 9, Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken (TriStar)
• Star Trek, Russell Earl, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton (Paramount Pictures)

Best Documentary Short Film:

• China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province (A Downtown Community Television Center Production)
• The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner (Just Media)
• The Last Truck: The Closing of a GM Plant (Community Media)
• Music by Prudence (iThemba Production)
• Rabbit a la Berlin (Deckert Distribution)

Best Animated Short Film:

• French Toast (Pumpkin Factory)
• Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Brown Bag Productions)
• The Lady and the Reaper (Kandor Graphics)
• Logorama (Autour de Minuit Productions)
• A Matter of Loaf and Death (Aardman Animations)

Best Live Action Short Film:

• The Door (Network Ireland Television)
• Instead of Abracadabra (Swedish Film Institute)
• Kavi (Gregg Helvey Productions)
• Miracle Fish (Premiun Films)
• The New Tenants (Park Pictures)

The Oscars will be revealed on Sunday, March 7, 2010.