82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010)
Presentation to air on TV on Sunday, March 7, 2010 for films released in 2009.

... and yes, we skip some categories... just because I don't care about best editing, for example.

I've come to the notion that it's not necessarily the *best* in each category, but a combination of the quality of the nominees and politics. It's all politics and who you know, man. So I have both my picks that deserve to win, and those I figure are the "popular" picks to win (and those aren't always the same, obviously).

The is whom I think ought to win, the is my guess of who will win, and once announced, the title in bold is the actual winner.

Category	Nominees
Best Picture	Avatar     The Blind Side     District 9     An Education     The Hurt Locker     Inglourious Basterds     Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire     A Serious Man     Up   Up in the Air
Best Director	James Cameron - Avatar     Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker     Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds     Lee Daniels - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire   Jason Reitman - Up in the Air
Actor in a Leading Role	Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart     George Clooney - Up in the Air     Colin Firth - A Single Man   Morgan Freeman - Invictus     Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker
Actress in a Leading Role	Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side     Helen Mirren - The Last Station     Carey Mulligan - An Education   Gabourey Sidibe - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire     Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
Actor in a Supporting Role	Matt Damon - Invictus     Woody Harrelson - The Messenger     Christopher Plummer - The Last Station   Stanley Tucci - The Lovely Bones     Christop Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Actress in a Supporting Role	Penelope Cruz - Nine     Vera Famiga - Up in the Air     Maggie Gyllenhaal - Crazy Heart     Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air Mo'Nique - Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
Animated Feature Film	Coraline     Fantastic Mr. Fox     The Princess and the Frog     The Secret of Kells Up
Cinematography	Avatar     Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince   The Hurt Locker     Inglourious Basterds     The White Ribbon
Costume Design	Bright Star   Coco before Chanel     The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus   Nine     The Young Victoria
Documentary Feature	Burma VJ - Anders Ostergaard 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 Prophete) - France     The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos - Argentina) The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) - Germany
Music (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 (Song)	“Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” - Randy Newman     “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” - Randy Newman     "Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” - Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas   “Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston   “The Weary Kind” from “Crazy Heart” - Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
Visual Effects	Avatar     District 9     Star Trek
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)	District 9 - Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell     An Education - Nick Hornby     In the Loop - Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire - Geoffrey Fletcher     Up in the Air - Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Writing (Original Screenplay)	The Hurt Locker - Mark Boal   Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino     The Messenger - Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman   A Serious Man - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen     Up - Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy