"Avatar" the epic science-fiction and "The Hurt Locker" gritty Iraq war drama top this years 2010 Oscars nominees and will battle for supremacy at awards night this coming March 7,2010. After each movie topping the nominations with nine nods last Tuesday.
James Cameron's "Avatar", the most expensive movie ever made and the highest grossing film of all time, picked up a slew of nominations including best picture and best director.
Low budget "The Hurt Locker" directed by Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, also earned nine nods including best director, best picture, best actor and best original screenplay. 'Avatar' and 'Hurt Locker': the Oscars odd couple
Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for directing and the first since Sofia Coppola received a nod for "Lost in Translation" in 2003. No woman director has ever won the Oscars top prize.
However "The Hurt Locker," a tense thriller about a US army bomb disposal squad operating in Iraq, has emerged as the favorite to land the Oscars top best picture prize when the 82nd Academy Awards are presented on March 7.
Although it has earned only 16 million dollars at the box office around 125 times less than "Avatar". Bigelow's film has won a host of awards regarded as reliable indicators of likely Oscars success.
This year's best picture race was expanded to 10 films by the Academy in a move analysts said was intended to boost television ratings for the awards show. It is the first time since 1943 when "Casablanca" won best picture that so many films have been nominated in the category.
While "The Hurt Locker" has nominations spread across various spheres, most of "Avatar's" nods are in technical categories, reflecting the film's groundbreaking 3-D visual effects.
Vying for the best picture race alongside "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" are Quentin Tarantino's bloody World War II revenge film "Inglourious Basterds," which weighed in with eight nominations. List of major 82nd Academy Awards nominees
It was followed by the independent "Precious," about the struggles of an illiterate abused teenager, which scored six nominations, including best picture and best director.
Other films in the best picture race include "District 9," South African director Neill Blomkamp's dazzling science-fiction film about aliens stranded in a Johannesburg township, and "Up," Pixar's charming animated film about a crotchety widower who ties balloons to his house and floats to South America.
It is only the second time that an animated film has made it into the best picture race following Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in 1992.
source: news.yahoo.com
James Cameron's "Avatar", the most expensive movie ever made and the highest grossing film of all time, picked up a slew of nominations including best picture and best director.
Low budget "The Hurt Locker" directed by Cameron's ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow, also earned nine nods including best director, best picture, best actor and best original screenplay. 'Avatar' and 'Hurt Locker': the Oscars odd couple
Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for directing and the first since Sofia Coppola received a nod for "Lost in Translation" in 2003. No woman director has ever won the Oscars top prize.
However "The Hurt Locker," a tense thriller about a US army bomb disposal squad operating in Iraq, has emerged as the favorite to land the Oscars top best picture prize when the 82nd Academy Awards are presented on March 7.
Although it has earned only 16 million dollars at the box office around 125 times less than "Avatar". Bigelow's film has won a host of awards regarded as reliable indicators of likely Oscars success.
This year's best picture race was expanded to 10 films by the Academy in a move analysts said was intended to boost television ratings for the awards show. It is the first time since 1943 when "Casablanca" won best picture that so many films have been nominated in the category.
While "The Hurt Locker" has nominations spread across various spheres, most of "Avatar's" nods are in technical categories, reflecting the film's groundbreaking 3-D visual effects.
Vying for the best picture race alongside "Avatar" and "The Hurt Locker" are Quentin Tarantino's bloody World War II revenge film "Inglourious Basterds," which weighed in with eight nominations. List of major 82nd Academy Awards nominees
It was followed by the independent "Precious," about the struggles of an illiterate abused teenager, which scored six nominations, including best picture and best director.
Other films in the best picture race include "District 9," South African director Neill Blomkamp's dazzling science-fiction film about aliens stranded in a Johannesburg township, and "Up," Pixar's charming animated film about a crotchety widower who ties balloons to his house and floats to South America.
It is only the second time that an animated film has made it into the best picture race following Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in 1992.
source: news.yahoo.com
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