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The 82nd Oscar Nominees

Eric NashPatrick NashScott NashFebruary 28, 2010

Oscar time has rolled around once more. Want to know what the Three Movie Buffs thought of the nominees this year? Well wonder no more.

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Best animated feature film of the year

Achievement in art direction

Achievement in cinematography

Achievement in costume design

Achievement in directing

Best documentary feature

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

Best documentary short subject

  • "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"

Achievement in film editing

Best foreign language film of the year

  • "Ajami" - Israel
  • "El Secreto de Sus Ojos" - Argentina
  • "The Milk of Sorrow" - Peru
  • "Un Prophète" - France
  • "The White Ribbon" - Germany

Achievement in makeup

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

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

Best motion picture of the year

Best animated short film

  • "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"

Best live action short film

  • "The Door"
  • "Instead of Abracadabra"
  • "Kavi"
  • "Miracle Fish"
  • "The New Tenants"

Achievement in sound editing

Achievement in sound mixing

Achievement in visual effects

Adapted screenplay

Original screenplay

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