Oscar Nominations 2010

So the Oscar nominations have been announced and for the first time there are 10 Best Picture nominations, which does nothing but highlight the fact that in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker doesn't win, then the people who vote must need their heads examining. Bigelow must surely become the first female to ever win Best Director as well, and about time too. With competition coming in the form of Tarantino, Cameron, Reitman and Daniels (Precious), its hard to imagine how any other director could possibly steal a much deserved haul, and even though Bigelow became the first woman to win the DGA award, cameron walked off with the Golden Globe, and word in America is that its a two horse race. Cameron has achieved enough with Avatar, and it would be a bit of a dissapointment is the Academy finally began to recognise science fiction cinema at the expense of one of the finest war films ever made.

My oeverall opinion though is that 2009 was clearly lacking in some Oscar worthy films, as for the most part those which i've seen are drastically lacking in quality, which only adds to my believe that The Hurt Locker must be the film which triumphs on the night.

Up has also been nominated for Best Feature and Animated Feature so will be unlikely to get a look in for best picture. The real battle though will no doubt take place in the Foreign Language category between Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet. If either of those fails it will come as a big surprise.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=26896 at Empire Online for a full breakdown of the nominations.

Roll on March 7th and the making of history.