Avatar, Hurt Locker Lead 82nd Oscar Nominations

Get excited! The nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards were just announced, with a cascade of mostly foregone conclusions rolling over the cliffs at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. A few upsets bubbled to the surface, meanwhile, as Anne Hathaway and Academy boss Tom Sherak delivered this year's nominees. Find those names (Maggie Gyllenhaal?) and films (The Blind Side?) after the jump, look for plenty more Oscar news and commentary as the day goes on, and congratulations to the nominees!

BEST PICTURE

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The Blind Side

District 9

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious

A Serious Man

Up

Up in the Air

BEST DIRECTOR

Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker

James Cameron, Avatar

Lee Daniels, Precious

Jason Reitman, Up in the Air

Quentin Tarantino, 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 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

Penelope Cruz, Nine

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart

Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air

Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air

Mo'nique, Precious

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 ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Neil Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, District 9

Nick Hornby, An Education

Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Armando Iannucci, In the Loop

Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious

Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, A Serious Man

Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, Up

Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman, The Messenger

Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

Ajami (Israel)

A Prophet (France)

The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)

The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina)

The White Ribbon (Germany)

BEST ANIMATED FILM

Coraline

Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Princess and the Frog

The Secret of Kells

Up

BEST ART DIRECTION

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

Sherlock Holmes

The Young Victoria

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

The White Ribbon

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

Bright Star

Coco Before Chanel

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Nine

The Young Victoria

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

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

BEST EDITING

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District 9

The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

BEST MAKEUP

Il Divo

Star Trek

The Young Victoria

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

The Hurt Locker

Sherlock Holmes

Up

BEST 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 (Theme from Crazy Heart)," Crazy Heart

BEST 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

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT

The Door

Instead of Abracadabra

Kavi

Miracle Fish

The New Tenants

BEST SOUND EDITING

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The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Star Trek

Up

BEST SOUND MIXING

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The Hurt Locker

Inglourious Basterds

Star Trek

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

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District 9

Star Trek