2010 Oscar® Predictions: Who Will Win and Who Should Win?

☆Who Will Win?

Who Should Win?☆

BEST PICTURE
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
☆The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious☆
A Serious Man
Up
Up In The Air

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 ACTOR
Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
☆Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds☆

BEST ACTRESS
☆Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious☆
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia☆

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up In The Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air
☆Mo'Nique, Precious☆

BEST DIRECTOR
James Cameron, Avatar
☆Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels, Precious☆
Jason Reitman, Up In The Air

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
☆The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds☆
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
District 9
An Education
In The Loop
Precious☆
☆Up In The Air

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Ajami, Israel
El Secretro de sus Ojo, Argentina
The Milk of Sorrow, Peru
Un Prophete, France
☆The White Ribbon, Germany☆

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and The Frog
The Secret of Kells
☆Up☆

ART DIRECTION
☆Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus☆
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Avatar
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
☆The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
The White Ribbon☆

COSTUME DESIGN
Bright Star
Coco before Chanel
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
☆The Young Victoria☆

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Burma VJ
☆The Cove☆
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
☆China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence☆
Rabbit à la Berlin

FILM EDITING
Avatar
District 9
☆The Hurt Locker☆
Inglourious Basterds
Precious

MAKEUP
Il Divo
☆Star Trek☆
The Young Victoria

ORIGINAL SCORE
Avatar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Hurt Locker
Sherlock Holmes
☆Up☆

ORIGINAL SONG
Almost There, The Princess and the Frog
Down in New Orleans, The Princess and the Frog
Loin de Paname, Paris 36
Take It All, Nine
☆The Weary Kind, Crazy Heart☆

ANIMATED SHORT
French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty☆
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
☆A Matter of Loaf and Death

LIVE ACTION SHORT
The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
☆The New Tenants☆

SOUND EDITING
☆Avatar☆
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

SOUND MIXING
☆Avatar☆
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

VISUAL EFFECTS
☆Avatar☆
District 9
Star Trek