82nd Academy Awards

82nd
82nd
Date	Sunday, March 7, 2010
Site	Kodak Theatre; Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by	Alec Baldwin; Steve Martin
Produced by	Bill Mechanic; Adam Shankman
Directed by	Hamish Hamilton
Highlights
Most nominations	Avatar and The Hurt Locker (9)
Television coverage
Network	ABC
	← 81st; {{{award}}}; 83rd →;

The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was televised in the United States on ABC. Actors Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin hosted the show. Martin hosted for the third time, after previously presiding over the 73rd and 75th ceremonies, while Baldwin hosted the show for the first time.

Nominees and winners

The nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced live on Tuesday February 2, 2010, at 05:30 AM PST (13:30 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Tom Sherak, president of the Academy, and actress Anne Hathaway. The winners will be announced during the awards ceremony on March 7, 2010. On June 24, 2009, then-Academy president Sid Ganis announced at a press conference that the 2010 ceremony will feature ten Best Picture nominees instead of five,^[4] a tradition that was discontinued after 1943.

Honorary Academy Awards

Gordon Willis

(already distributed)

Major award nominees

Best Picture	Best Director
Avatar The Blind Side District 9 An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds A Serious Man Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Up Up in the Air	Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker James Cameron – Avatar Lee Daniels – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire Jason Reitman – Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino – Inglourious Basterds
Best Actor	Best Actress
Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart as Bad Blake George Clooney – Up in the Air as Ryan Bingham Colin Firth – A Single Man as George Falconer Morgan Freeman – Invictus as Nelson Mandela Jeremy Renner – The Hurt Locker as Sgt. William James	Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side as Leigh Anne Tuohy Helen Mirren – The Last Station as Sofya Tolstoy Carey Mulligan – An Education as Jenny Miller Gabourey Sidibe – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Clarieece "Precious" Jones Meryl Streep – Julie & Julia as Julia Child
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Matt Damon – Invictus as François Pienaar Woody Harrelson – The Messenger as Capt. Tony Stone Christopher Plummer – The Last Station as Leo Tolstoy Stanley Tucci – The Lovely Bones as George Harvey Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds as Col. Hans Landa	Penélope Cruz – Nine as Carla Albanese Vera Farmiga – Up in the Air as Alex Goran Maggie Gyllenhaal – Crazy Heart as Jean Craddock Anna Kendrick – Up in the Air as Natalie Keener Mo'Nique – Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire as Mary Lee Johnston
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Hurt Locker – Mark Boal Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino The Messenger – Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman A Serious Man – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Up – Tom McCarthy, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter	District 9 – Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell An Education – Nick Hornby In the Loop – Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Ianucci and Tony Roche Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Geoffrey Fletcher Up in the Air – Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best Animated Feature	Best Foreign Language Film
Coraline – Henry Selick Fantastic Mr. Fox – Wes Anderson The Princess and the Frog – Ron Clements and John Musker The Secret of Kells – Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey Up – Pete Docter	Ajami (Israel) in Arabic and Hebrew – Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina) in Spanish – Juan José Campanella The Milk of Sorrow (Peru) in Spanish – Claudia Llosa A Prophet (France) in French – Jacques Audiard The White Ribbon (Germany) in German – Michael Haneke

Other award nominees

Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Burma VJ – Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller The Cove – Nominees to be determined Food, Inc. – Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers – Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith Which Way Home – Rebecca Cammisa	China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province – Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner – Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant – Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert Music by Prudence – Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett Rabbit à la Berlin – Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Door – Juanita Wilson and James Flynn Instead of Abracadabra – Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström Kavi – Gregg Helvey Miracle Fish – Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey The New Tenants – Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson	French Roast – Fabrice O. Joubert Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty – Nicky Phelan and 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
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Avatar – James Horner Fantastic Mr. Fox – Alexandre Desplat The Hurt Locker – Marco Beltrami and Beck Sanders Sherlock Holmes – Hans Zimmer Up – Michael Giacchino	"Almost There" from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman "Down in New Orleans" from The Princess and the Frog – Randy Newman "Loin de Paname" from Paris 36 – Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas "Take it All" from Nine – Maury Yeston "Weary Kind" from Crazy Heart – Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Avatar – Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson Inglourious Basterds – Wylie Stateman Star Trek – Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin Up – Michael Silvers and Tom Myers	Avatar – Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson The Hurt Locker – Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett Inglourious Basterds – Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano Star Trek – Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Avatar – Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Art Direction: Dave Warren and 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	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
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Il Divo – Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano Star Trek – Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow The Young Victoria – Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore	Bright Star – Janet Patterson Coco Before Chanel – Catherine Leterrier The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus – Monique Prudhomme Nine – Colleen Atwood The Young Victoria – Sandy Powell
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Avatar – James Cameron, John Refoua and Stephen E. Rivkin District 9 – Julian Clarke The Hurt Locker – Chris Innis and Bob Murawski Inglourious Basterds – Sally Menke Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire – Joe Klotz	Avatar – Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones District 9 – Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, and Matt Aitken Star Trek – Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

Multiple nominations

The following films received multiple nominations.

9 nominations: Avatar and The Hurt Locker
8 nominations: Inglourious Basterds
6 nominations: Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire and Up in the Air
5 nominations: Up
4 nominations: District 9, Nine and Star Trek
3 nominations: An Education, Crazy Heart, The Princess and the Frog and The Young Victoria
2 nominations: A Serious Man, The Blind Side, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Invictus, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Last Station, The Messenger, Sherlock Holmes and The White Ribbon

Schedule

As announced March 25, 2009:^[5]

Date	Event
Tuesday, December 1, 2009	Official Screen Credits forms due
Monday, December 28, 2009	Nominations ballots mailed
Sunday, January 24, 2010	Nominations polls closed at 17:00 PST (01:00, Jan. 25 UTC)
Tuesday, February 2, 2010	Nominations announced at 05:30 PST (13:30 UTC) at Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Wednesday, February 10, 2010	Final ballots mailed
Monday, February 15, 2010	Nominees Luncheon
Saturday, February 20, 2010	Scientific and Technical Achievement Awards presentation
Tuesday, March 2, 2010	Final polls closed at 17:00 PST (01:00, Mar. 3 UTC)
Sunday, March 7, 2010	82nd Annual Academy Awards presentation at 17:00 PST (01:00, Mar. 8 UTC)

References

^ Natalie Finn (November 3, 2009). "Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin Tapped for Oscar Duty". E! Entertainment. Retrieved November 4, 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ "Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman Named Oscar Telecast Producers". oscars.org. October 20, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009. {{cite web}}: More than one of |work= and |website= specified (help)
^ Rebecca Paiement (November 20, 2009). "Hamish Hamilton to direct 82nd Academy Awards". AOL. Retrieved November 23, 2009. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |site= ignored (help)
^ Oscars.org Press Release
^ "Key Dates Announced for the 82nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 25, 2009. Retrieved March 27, 2009.

[1] Natalie Finn (November 3, 2009). "Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin Tapped for Oscar Duty". E! Entertainment. Retrieved November 4, 2009. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

[2] "Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman Named Oscar Telecast Producers". oscars.org. October 20, 2009. Retrieved October 20, 2009. {{cite web}}: More than one of |work= and |website= specified (help)

[3] Rebecca Paiement (November 20, 2009). "Hamish Hamilton to direct 82nd Academy Awards". AOL. Retrieved November 23, 2009. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |site= ignored (help)

[4] Oscars.org Press Release

[5] "Key Dates Announced for the 82nd Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. March 25, 2009. Retrieved March 27, 2009.

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