{"id":7644,"date":"2010-02-01T08:07:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T08:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2010-02-01T15:46:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:46:51","slug":"oscar-nominations-to-look-out-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/02\/01\/oscar-nominations-to-look-out-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar nominations to look out for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Possible-Oscar-Nominations-2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7645\" title=\"Possible Oscar Nominations 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Possible-Oscar-Nominations-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ad]<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Oscar nominations<\/a> are announced\u00a0tomorrow (Tuesday 5.30am PST and 1.30pm GMT)\u00a0and here are some of the films and people to look out for in the major categories.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEST PICTURE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The is the most interesting category of all because this year the Academy expanded the number of nominees from 5 to 10 in order to let in films that were more commercially successful.<\/p>\n<p>It was basically a move to pacify ABC executives tired of declining ratings for the telecast and low grossing winners.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously it was a move that goes against everything the Oscars should stand for (like awarding excellence rather than box office) and as it turned out, Avatar would have made it in to the final five anyway.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, these films are cast-iron certainties to get in to the final 10:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Hurt Locker<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Avatar<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Up in the Air<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Precious<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Inglourious Basterds<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After that, it gets a little trickier but I reckon that <strong>Up<\/strong>,<strong> Star Trek, <\/strong><strong>District 9<\/strong>, <strong>An Education <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>A Serious Man<\/strong> will fill out the remaining slots. However,\u00a0<strong>Invictus<\/strong> and <strong>A Single Man <\/strong>are possibilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEST DIRECTOR<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is going to follow the Best Picture category with the following directors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>James Cameron<\/strong>, Avatar<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kathryn Bigelow<\/strong>, The Hurt Locker<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lee Daniels<\/strong>, Precious<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong>, Inglourious Basterds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jason Reitman<\/strong>, Up in the Air<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEST ACTOR<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This category is also relatively straightforward, with Jeff Bridges emerging as the frontrunner to win.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jeff Bridges<\/strong>, Crazy Heart<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Clooney<\/strong>, Up in the Air<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeremy Renner<\/strong>, The Hurt Locker,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Colin Firth<\/strong>, A Single Man<\/li>\n<li><strong>Morgan Freeman<\/strong>, Invictus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEST ACTRESS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another straightforward category with Sandra Bullock likely to win. Emily Blunt isn&#8217;t a dead cert for the fifth slot, which could go to Helen Mirren for The Last Station.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sandra Bullock<\/strong>, The Blind Side<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meryl Streep<\/strong>, Julie &amp; Julia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carey Mulligan<\/strong>, An Education<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gabourey Sidibe<\/strong>, Precious<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emily Blunt<\/strong>, The Young Victoria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For this category Christophe Waltz is a dead cert to win after\u00a0scooping\u00a0virtually every guild and critics award. The fifth slot is a hard one to call but if there is any justice Anthony Mackie should get a nod.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christophe Waltz<\/strong>, Inglourious Basterds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Woody Harrelson<\/strong>, The Messenger<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stanley Tucci<\/strong>, The Lovely Bones<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matt Damon<\/strong>, Invictus<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anthony Mackie<\/strong>, The Hurt Locker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another category where the winner is almost certain before the nominations are announced. Mo&#8217;Mique is the actress equivalent of Waltz in that she has dominated the critic and guild awards and a dead cert to win. This is quite a hard one to call and other possibles could include Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Penelope Cruz (Nine) and Mariah Carey (Precious).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mo&#8217;Nique<\/strong>, Precious<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anna Kendrick<\/strong>, Up in the Air<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vera Farmiga<\/strong>, Up in the Air<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/strong>, Crazy Heart<\/li>\n<li><strong>Julianne Moore<\/strong>, A Single Man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\">\n<p>Of course, I could have got a few of these wrong but we shall see when <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne_Hathaway_(actress)\">Anne Hathaway<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Sherak\">Tom Sherak<\/a> announce them at a news conference at the Academy\u2019s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscars themselves are on <strong>Sunday 7th March<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\">Official site<\/a><br \/>&gt; Get the latest awards season news at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awardsdaily.com\/\">AwardsDaily<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/incontention.com\/\">InContention<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscar nominations are announced today and here are some of the films and people to look out for in the major categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[769,768],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}