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Performance by an actor in a leading role	Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart"
Performance by an actor in a supporting role	Christoph Waltz in "Inglourious Basterds"
Performance by an actress in a leading role	Sandra Bullock in "The Blind Side"
Performance by an actress in a supporting role	Mo'Nique in "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"
Best animated feature film of the year	"Up" - Pete Docter
Achievement in art direction	"Avatar" - Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, and Kim Sinclair
Achievement in cinematography	"The Hurt Locker" - Barry Ackroyd
Achievement in costume design	"The Young Victoria" - Sandy Powell
Achievement in directing	"The Hurt Locker" - Kathryn Bigelow
Best documentary feature	"The Cove"
Best documentary short subject	"China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province" - Jon Alpert & Matthew O'Neill
Achievement in film editing	"The Hurt Locker" - Bob Murawski & Chris Innis
Best foreign language film of the year	"The White Ribbon" - Germany
Achievement in makeup	"The Young Victoria" - Jon Henry Gordon & Jenny Shircore
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)	"Up"  - Michael Giacchino
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)	"The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart" - Ryan Bingham & T Bone Burnett
Best motion picture of the year	"The Hurt Locker"
Best animated short film	"A Matter of Loaf and Death" - Nick Park
Best live action short film	"The Door" - Juanita Wilson & James Flynn
Achievement in sound editing	"Avatar" - Christopher Boyes & Gwendolyn Yates Whittle
Achievement in sound mixing	"Avatar" - Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson
Achievement in visual effects	"Avatar" - Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones
Adapted screenplay	"Up in the Air" - Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner
Original screenplay	"Inglourious Basterds" - Quentin Tarantino

As I sit here writing this, I am still not sure who I'll pick for some of the big awards tonight.  Usually, I'd be on my way to an Oscar party with my High School friends where we'd compete against each other for a prize.  Since we moved across the country and we obviously aren't going to the party, I just haven't been as focused on watching the nominated films.  That being said, I've had to step up my "research" this year and take into account what's happened at the other award shows.  Now that that's done, take a look at my Oscars page to see how all the movies and people have fared.  I was able to see a couple of films such as Inglorious Basterds, Star Trek, Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter.  So I am now going to make my picks and post them shortly.  Stay tuned...

So I missed the live Academy Award nominations this year due to the fact that it's on really early if you live on the West Coast. As a recent transplant I keep forgetting that most events are scheduled for East Coast time and are not live when we see them out west.  A word of advice from all of us out west to those that get to watch things live, STOP POSTING RESULTS ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK BEFORE IT AIRS OUT WEST!

Anyway, that being said, I was pleased with the nominations this year. There was a wide variety of good movies and performances to choose from so the Academy did a fairly good job.  While I am not the avid movie-goer I was back in high school and college, I do have a substantial DVD collection, Comcast cable, and a new Netflix subscription.  Therefore, I am going to use this blog as a method for viewing more movies and jotting down my feelings / reactions to them.  Along the way I plan to discuss awards and other industry goings-on as they happen.

So, in the immediate future, this blog will be about my quest to watch as many of the Oscar nominated movies as I can and write about them from my own unique perspective.  This will all lead up to my predictions for winners announced on March 7.  I might even take other's predictions in some kind of Oscar competition if I can figure out how to do that.