The big Hollywood hitters - Avatar, Crazy Heart and The Hurt Locker - were all there in yesterday's Oscar nominations as announced by Anne Hathaway at 5.38am Los Angeles time.
Anne Hathaway reveals the 82nd Academy Awards nominees…
The nominations are in! Before we get all excited about who'll be wearing what, this year's Oscar nominations are in.
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Best Actor
Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), George Clooney (Up in the Air), Colin Firth (A Single Man) and Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker).
Best Actress
Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side), Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) and Carey Mulligan (An Education).
Best actress in a supporting role
Mo'Nique (Precious), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air), Penélope Cruz (Nine), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart).
Best actor in a supporting role
Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds), Christopher Plummer (The Last Station), Matt Damon (Invictus), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones), Woody Harrelson (The Messengers).
Directing
Avatar (James Cameron) , The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow), Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) , Jason Reitman (Up in the Air), Lee Daniels (Precious).
Writing (adapted screenplay)
District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell) , An Education (Nick Hornby), Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher), Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner) , In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin and Tony Roche).
Best Picture
Avatar (James Cameron and Jon Landau), District 9 (Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham), An Education (FionolaDwyer and Amanda Posey) , The Hurt Locker (nominees to be determined), Inglourious Basterds (Lawrence Bender), Precious (Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, producers) , A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen) , Up in the Air (Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman), The Blind Side (nominees to be determined) , Up (Jonas Rivera)
But Brit stars were holding their own in the list of nominees with Colin Firth nominated for A Single Man, Carey Mulligan for An Education and Helen Mirren for her role in The Last Station.
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Newcomer Carey Mulligan has wowed critics with her performance in An Education, the tale of a teenage girl coming of age in 60s London adapted from the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber. Mulligan's reaction was ecstatic;
"This is beyond anything I've ever dreamed of. I've definitely never felt such excitement and nausea this early in the morning!"
An Education also scored a nomination in the Best Picture category.
Helen Mirren scored a nod for her portrayal of Sofya Tolstoy in The Last Station and made a statement this morning saying;
"I'm very happy and honored for Christopher, myself and our film. I think Tolstoy himself would have been perplexed by all this, but, Sofya his wife would have been over the moon. So in that spirit, I am too."
Mirren and Mulligan are pitted against each other in the Best Actress in a Lead Role category and will battle it out with Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia, Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side and Gabourey Sidibe for Precious.
Last up representing the Brits in the lead actors category is the delicious Mr Colin Firth who received his first ever Oscar nomination yesterday. Firth portrays a gay college professor in Tom Ford's very stylish directorial debut A Single Man. He'll be up against Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart, Morgan Freeman for Invictus, George Clooney for Up in the Air and Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker.
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