"Sandra Bullock could not fake pleasure in pornography with a gun pointed at her head," says Sam Juliano, quoting a post from his blog Wonders in the Dark as he previews Oscar Night Year 2010. He has hosted a party in celebration of Oscar Night for the past 27 years. Filmed in Fairview, New Jersey.
2010 Nominees: Actor in a Leading Role
Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
George Clooney in Up in the Air
Colin Firth in A Single Man
Morgan Freeman in Invictus
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker
Actor in a Supporting Role
Matt Damon in Invictus
Woody Harrelson in The Messenger
Christopher Plummer in The Last Station
Stanley Tucci in The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds
Actress in a Leading Role
Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
Helen Mirren in The Last Station
Carey Mulligan in An Education
Gabourey Sidibe in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia
Actress in a Supporting Role
Penélope Cruz in Nine
Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick in Up in the Air
MoNique in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Animated Feature Film
Coraline Henry Selick
Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson
The Princess and the Frog John Musker and Ron Clements
The Secret of Kells Tomm Moore
Up Pete Docter
Cinematography
Avatar Mauro Fiore
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds Robert Richardson
The White Ribbon Christian Berger
Costume Design
Bright Star Janet Patterson
Coco before Chanel Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Monique Prudhomme
Nine Colleen Atwood
The Young Victoria Sandy Powell
Directing
Avatar James Cameron
The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow
Inglourious Basterds Quentin Tarantino
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Lee Daniels
Up in the Air Jason Reitman
Documentary (Feature)
Burma VJ Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller
The Cove Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens
Food, Inc. Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Which Way Home Rebecca Cammisa
Foreign Language Film
Ajami Israel
The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada) Peru
A Prophet (Un Prophète) France
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos) Argentina
The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) Germany
Music (Original Score)
Avatar James Horner
Fantastic Mr. Fox Alexandre Desplat
The Hurt Locker Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders
Sherlock Holmes Hans Zimmer
Up Michael Giacchino
Music (Original Song)
Almost There from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Down in New Orleans from The Princess and the Frog by Randy Newman
Loin de Paname from Paris 36 by Reinhardt Wagner and Frank Thomas
Take It All from Nine by Maury Yeston
The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) from Crazy Heart by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Best Picture
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel Push
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
District 9 by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education by Nick Hornby
In the Loop by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire by Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Hurt Locker by Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman
A Serious Man by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Up by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter,