Oscar 2010: My Winning Predictions

Best Picture

• The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro, producers)
• Avatar (James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers)
• District 9 (Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, producers)
• An Education (Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, producers)
• Inglourious Basterds (Lawrence Bender, producer)
• Precious (Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, producers)
• A Serious Man (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, producers)
• Up in the Air (Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, producers)
• The Blind Side (Gil Netter, Andrew A Kosove and Broderick Johnson, producers)
• Up (Jonas Rivera, producer)

Best Director

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

Best Actress

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

Best Actor

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

Best Supporting Actress

• Mo’Nique in Precious
• Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air
• Penélope Cruz in Nine
• Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air
• Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart

Best Supporting Actor

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

Animated Feature Film

• Up (Pete Docter and Bob Peterson)
• The Princess and the Frog (Ron Clements and John Musker)
• Coraline (Henry Selick)
• Fantastic Mr Fox (Wes Anderson)
• The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore)

Foreign Language Film

• The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, Germany)
• The Secret of Her Eyes (Juan Jose Campanella, Argentina)
• A Prophet (Jacques Audiard, France)
• The Milk of Sorrow (Claudia Llosa, Peru)
• Ajami (Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani, Israel)

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

• Precious (Geoffrey Fletcher)
• District 9 (Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell)
• An Education (Nick Hornby)
• Up in the Air (Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner)
• In the Loop (Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche)

Writing (Original Screenplay)

• Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino)
• The Messenger (Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman)
• The Hurt Locker (Mark Boal)
• A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
• Up (Pete Docter and Bob Petersen)

Art Direction

• Avatar (art direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; set decoration: Kim Sinclair)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor 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)

Cinematography

• Avatar (Mauro Fiore)
• The White Ribbon (Christian Berger)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bruno Delbonnel)
• The Hurt Locker (Barry Ackroyd)
• Inglourious Basterds (Robert Richardson)

Costume Design

• The Young Victoria (Sandy Powell)
• Coco Before Chanel (Catherine Leterrier)
• Bright Star (Janet Patterson)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Monique Prudhomme)
• Nine (Colleen Atwood)

Documentary (Feature)

• The Cove (Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens)
• Burma VJ (Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller)
• 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)

Documentary (Short Subject)

• 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)

Film Editing

• Avatar (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron)
• District 9 (Julian Clarke)
• The Hurt Locker (Bob Murawski and Chris Innis)
• Inglourious Basterds (Sally Menke)
• Precious (Joe Klotz)

Makeup

• Star Trek (Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow)
• Il Divo (Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano)
• The Young Victoria (Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore)

Music (Original Score)

• Up (Michael Giacchino)
• Avatar (James Horner)
• Fantastic Mr Fox (Alexandre Desplat)
• The Hurt Locker (Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders)
• Sherlock Holmes (Hans Zimmer)

Music (Original Song)

• The Weary Kind, from Crazy Heart, by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
• Almost There, from The Princess and the Frog, by Randy Newman
• Down in New Orleans, from The Princess and the Frog, by Randy Newman
• Loin de Paname, from Paris 36, by Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
• Take It All, from Nine, by Maury Yeston

Short Film (Animated)

• Logorama (Nicolas Schmerkin)
• A Matter of Loaf and Death (Nick Park)
• French Roast (Fabrice O Joubert)
• The Lady and the Reaper (Javier Recio Gracia)
• Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty (Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell)

Short Film (Live Action)

• The Door (Juanita Wilson and James Flynn)
• Miracle Fish (Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey)
• Instead of Abracadabra (Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström)
• Kavi (Gregg Helvey)
• The New Tenants (Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson)

Sound Editing

• Avatar (Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
• The Hurt Locker (Paul NJ Ottosson)
• Inglourious Basterds (Wylie Stateman)
• Star Trek (Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin)
• Up (Michael Silvers and Tom Myers)

Sound Mixing

• Avatar (Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson)
• The Hurt Locker (Paul NJ 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)

Visual Effects

• 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)