Top 20 of 2009 + 2010 Academy Award Predictions!

1= The Hurt Locker


1= The Messenger


3. Moon


4. Inglourious Basterds


5. (500) Days of Summer


6. Avatar


7. A Serious Man


8. Fantastic Mr Fox


9. Star Trek


10. Where The Wild Things Are


11. District 9


12. Up


13. An Education


14. The Hangover


15. Broken Embraces


16. Synecdoche, New York


17. Observe and Report


18. Sunshine Cleaning


19. Zombieland


(-). Up in the Air

Best Picture

The Hurt Locker

The Messenger

Inglourious Basterds

Avatar

Up in the Air

Up

An Education

Invictus

Where The Wild Things Are

Precious



Best Director

Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker

James Cameron - Avatar

Jason Reitman - Up in the Air

Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Clint Eastwood - Invictus



Best Actress

Carey Mulligan - An Education

Meryl Streep - Julie and Julia

Gabby Sidibe - Precious

Helen Mirren - The Last Station

Marion Cotillard - Nine



Best Actor

Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart

George Clooney - Up in the Air

Colin Firth - A Single Man

Morgan Freeman - Invictus

Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker



Best Supporting Actress

Mo'Nique - Precious

Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air

Penelope Cruz - Nine

Samantha Morton - The Messenger

Julianne Moore - A Single Man



Best Supporting Actor

Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds

Woody Harrelson - The Messenger

Stanley Tucci -The Lovely Bones

Matt Damon - Invictus

Christopher Plummer - The Last Station

OR

Christian McKay - Me and Orson Welles



Best Original Screenplay

Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds

Joel and Ethan Coen - A Serious Man

Mark Boal - The Hurt Locker

Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber - (500) Days of Summer

Bob Petersen, Pete Docter - Up



Best Adapted Screenplay

Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air

Nick Hornby - An Education

Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach - Fantastic Mr Fox

Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell - District 9

Spike Jonze, Dave Eggars - Where The Wild Things Are



Best Editing

The Hurt Locker

Avatar

Inglourious Basterds

Nine

(500) Days of Summer



Best Cinematography

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

The White Ribbon

Nine

The Lovely Bones



Best Art Direction

Avatar

District 9

A Single Man

Inglourious Basterds

The Lovely Bones



Best Sound Mixing

Avatar

The Hurt Locker

Star Trek

District 9

Nine



Best Sound Editing

Avatar

Up

Star Trek

District 9



Best Costume Design

Bright Star

Inglourious Basterds

Where The Wild Things Are

Nine

The Young Victoria



Best Original Score

Michael Giacchino - Up

Carter Burwell and Karen O - Where The Wild Things Are

Marvin Hamlisch - The Informant!

James Horner - Avatar

Hans Zimmer - Sherlock Holmes



Best Song

'I See You' - Avatar

'All Is Love' - Where The Wild Things Are

'Cinema Italiano' - Nine

'The Weary Kind' - Crazy Heart

'Almost There' - The Princess and the Frog



Best Animated Feature

Up

Fantastic Mr Fox

The Princess and the Frog

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

Coraline



Best Visual Effects

Avatar

2012

Star Trek

District 9



Best Makeup

The Road

Star Trek

Nine

Best Foreign Language Film

A Prophet (France)

The White Ribbon (Germany)

Broken Embraces (Spain)

Letters From Father Jacob (Finland)

White Wedding (South Africa)



So, there you have it! Mark my words, these will be pretty much dead on (hopefully). The only real difference I can foresee is the lack of love for 'Where The Wild Things Are', but we'll have to see.

Apologies for the lack of blog reviews recently. Yes, I have been lazy with Christmas/New Years/The Band/illness getting in the way but there will be blogs this month, I promise. I'm going out on tour from Monday so I will have a lot of downtime to write for you.

Happy New Year to all my loyal readers ;) Blogs to come before Valentine's Day (it is awards season after all):

Avatar
Where The Wild Things Are
An Education
The Messenger
The Hurt Locker
Up in the Air
The Lovely Bones
It's Complicated

The Road

Daybreakers

Laters haters!

-M